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Didn't the Aztec religion of human sacrifice make it up there at about that time? I wonder if that had something to do with it

They didn't leave any written records. Who's to say it didn't happen much earlier? The area near Sky City is the longest inhabited site in North America. I wonder what they say about it if they could know? If fishing dried up they had game but were bad hunters?

I think it was a plage of some kind

Lack of water

Knight of Templar. Catholic Church and the underground catacombs might have something to do with it

I love the "no, I dont have a control, because I'm NOT a scientist" especially because you do have theories and are testing and documenting most of what you're doing. Yeah sure, its not rigorous and exhaustive, but you're experimenting and documenting, which I would call the heart of science.

Why does noone consider the Black Death? The Basques were fishing the cod on the Grand Banks for hundreds of years before Columbus, it only takes a boatfull of dead and dying plague victims to float down the coast and be found by some well meaning people for the plague to flash it's way across the country. Why not, it's as good a reason as any?

So much of past history is full of lies that what we were told cannot be trusted.

Who came up with the 1400 date though? Could it be wrong?

Some peubloan ruins make sense just based on protection from the elements, but the architecture of much of it indicates war and conflict. If you build a dwelling hundreds of feet in the air that can only been seen from the opposite rim of a canyon or from the canyon floor, and can only be accessed from a dangerous climb, or a miles-long traverse around a narrow, off-camber and scree-covered canyon rim pathway, or via a long hike up out of a canyon to drop in from the rim above, common sense dictates only a few plausible reasons why any person or persons would go to such extremes: 1. you are hiding; 2. if found, you want it to be difficult to impossible to get to you safely or quickly so that you can leave and go to another hide-out; 3. you just really like the view and you're an extremely private person; 4. you believe it is essential for some spiritual necessity. I fail to see why researchers always assume Native American tribes were nearly always peaceful and living in harmony with nature. The rest of known human history suggests that would be extremely unlikely. Whether the archaeologic community wants to admit it or not, there does appear to be evidence of humans being murdered in relatively large numbers at Chaco Canyon and related sites, and possibly even of cannibalism. I believe Americans in general feel guilty concerning our past treatment of Native American tribes (which admittedly was genocidal or at least borderline genocidal IMO), but it need not color our scientific judgement. Also, I tend to see architectural analysis of ruins that suggest an assumption occupants lived in these extreme locations for long periods continuously, which again IMO doesn't follow common sense logic... meaning that because people of this period (approx. 700-1400 AD) had most likely evolved from hunter-gatherer tribes, it would make sense for them to have multiple dwellings in several places so they could follow the most favorable weather and game movement patterns to increase their adaptability. The argument they would be too vulnerable to siege if they were intended as defensive structures doesn't make sense to me either. If that was the case then it should follow there should be far fewer castles, especially castles built on hills and crazy rock outcroppings. Again, I have no scientific training in archaeology - I'm just forming an opinion based on my knowledge of history and applying logic to it. I could be wrong, and I think it is important to remain open-minded, since we are all products of our unique ethnocentric backgrounds. Lastly, I don't intend in any way to offend anyone else's beliefs or spiritual framework or how they see the world.

What is also interesting, is that Oxford University in London was starting about 1096! Amazing that those things can happen at the same time!!

really enjoyed this, its very rare to see someone actually use the pots they made let alone go through an experimental process . Thank you for the time u put in to your videos and for sharing your knowledge

Two things come to mind. A pandemic; or somebody came from somewhere else and told them to get out because something very bad was about to happen. And something very bad did happen.

There was a mystery volcano event in the 1450s that cooled the northern hemisphere would be my best guess

How many times will you listen to this guy admit he doesn’t know what he’s talking about? Gets boring by the half-way point.

Trying this tomorrow!

The New Madrid Fault also wiped out Mississippian Civilization also around this time. Huge earthquakes happen on that fault from time to time. Uniformitarianism is just plain false. The world is reset from time to time by earthquakes heavy rain and Famine. Cataclysms. The spanish had knowlege of the Strait of Mangelin from past world wide trade networks before 1300.

There was great calamity at this time world wide. Mayan civilization was reset at the same time from 1300 to 1400. I think there were Earthquakes and severe weather and famine took over. There may have even been a tidal wave that wiped out the west coast. The Chinese record a huge armada of ships were wiped out around Australia and New Zeeland in the 1300 also. Coincidence, I don't think so. Then the Spanish set out to check out the demolished areas. The Mayans were just recovering from massive destructions and famine also. The Spanish took advantage and resettled things. Its that simple.

Pottery, agriculture, the bow and arrow, and celtic axes all arrived around the same time in North America. Coincidence?

Aliens 🖖🏽👽

The climate could have been different back in the past. More rain more crops.

Same thing that's happened down throughout the ages. Greed, human expansion, misuse of resources natural disasters, and humans being's own worst enemies. Greed, Envy and jealousy.

Did you the potters directly for their time and knowledge, or was it that you bought many pieces while you were there? (Also, i do see that you've linked online shops in the video description)

Reading the comments, referencing skinwalkers....The Central America indigenous cultures would wear the flayed skin of sacrificed people. There is a dark side to shamanism as well. It's not all euphoric union with the creative process. Darker Shamanism involves violating taboos . It's likely the population migration was indeed motivated in part by extreme Anasazi behaviour as related by Navaho people. Also reference Castaneda and his description of Brujo magic. The mystical psychedelic culture of very sophisticated indigenous tribes and nations could well be a factor in the depopulation. They fled an evil cult?

Cultural Morrality corruption

It could well be diseases spread from ritual or cultural cannibalism. Things like prions.

Don't forget plage, giants and culture. Listen to Navajo history they have a good knowledge of the area.

Wait a minute. At first you showed me arible land, grain storage, buffalo.........next thing you know is what it looks like today. Desert. Well, you answered your own question.

It probably was not a single catastrophic event but rather a combination and or a long series of events.

Can any impurities in temper added to the clay cause it to break?

Maybe it was a plague or illness of some kind. There are race-specific diseases which might explain the disappearance. I don't know.

Does this explain why the Spanish conquistador took the west of South & North America almost without resistance from the locals?

Well, that’s when the Spanish came over and brought smallpox

This may be seemingly unrelated, but what I write can have had a impact on the Northern hemissphere. I am a historian and vulcanologist. In 1308 till 1362 there was a long series of volcanic eruptions on Iceland that impacted Europe. In 1340 - 1345 a deadly pandemic of the black plague took away inhabitants in many villages in Europe. In 1362 the biggest eruption in the Northern hemisphere erupted. Oreifajokull caused an enormous tidalwave that flooded the low countries, areas of Great Brittain (erasing 79 villages of Dorset) and ended in a vulcanic winter that brought winterconditions in spring and autumn and brought wet conditions in summer. This lasted at least ten years. The population in Europe was reduced by a third as a consequence. On Greenland, somebody in this comment section reports that the population of Greenland disappeared. I believe that when people migrate, they take their culture with them. This seems not to have happened in the report in this video. Just like in Europe, many areas in the Americas were depopulated. In the past we have seen similar repeats of collapse. Around 10.000 BC climate change caused hunter gatherers to start adopting agriculture. 1500 BC we see the Bronze Age Collapse. The story about the biblical Jacob takes place in this time. Kanaan was mostly depopulated and the people of Israel migrated here. Then 1300 - 1400 CE brought astoroids impacts, vulcanic eruptions, tidal waves, volcanic winter, pandemics, warfare and abandonement of settled areas. These mentioned times are the only times when worldwide population decreased by a third. The only other time I know this happened is with the eruption of Toba supervolcano 74.000 ago. The human race was almost extinct. A new type of human emerged then: Homo Sapiens Sapiens, cultural man. Us! The story of Adam and Eve in the bible is from that time. Nature rebounded after 6 days in the area that now is called Aden (pronounced Eden). Preceding the Bronze Age Collapse was the eruption of the Akrotiri volcano 1650. Most collapses commenced with volcanic eruptions or impacts of meteors. Then occurs climatic upheaval. Then famine happens. Then pandemics spread. Than happen migrations and reduction of population. Then cultural changes and cultural renewal happen. Wars often occur in the process.

The Little Ice Age began in 1300 AD and was in full force by 1400 AD. This climate shift might have affected them.

I wonder though, the hardy attributes of these people as hunter-gatherers, by 1400 they would have been gone. Look at the modern United States, in just a generation or two, common skill sets have been lost by the vast majority. Eating habits, individual common skill sets, religion, political tendencies, all manner of things have radically changed and the average person today is not capable of many tasks the average person of 1940 or 1900 might have considered universal.

The Aztec cannibalism and sacrifice came to aztlan and killed an ate the people of the southwest also taking captives to sacrifice in Aztec capital

Must have been the giants...

All of this stuff has to be an illusion. There were no white, straight, men to blame it on. Therefore it didn’t happen. You better not talk about this too much or you will get canceled and defunded.

Aliens. It's always aliens.

I think the plague made it to America.

PHOENIX EVENT

I'm not sure what happened here, but I feel certain that it has something to do with these UFOs!

They could have got woke and went broke. Having familes and babies became unpopular to the progressives amonst them.

I believe the rise of the Aztecs and their insatiable thirst for human sacrifice caused them to spread farther and farther afield in search of captives.

Easy answer, Climate Change and pandemics. These things have always happened and always will.

Read books written by Immanuel Velikovski. He collected information from ancient civilizations regarding a mass casualty even. Waters boiled, mountains melted, and something was passing by the earth and scorching the land. It caused darkness, famine and widespread death. That was my summing up of a book called "worlds in collision". The mainstream gatekeepers of his time hated him with a pasion for messing up their chronologies and world views. Velikovski was also a Jewish man who may have believed in God from what i understood. All that he did was compile historical accounts of ancient yet major civilizations and elaborate on the information.

I think a lot of the reason is because the Spanish began to force their Catholicism on the indigenous peoples of the S/W, stirring up discontent. Finally, the tribes had enough and killed the priests, rightfully so, and chased the survivors back to Spain.

excellent effort really enjoy your videos and ty for the time you put in to them.

I also noticed some of these places had corn cobs lying around, and I was wondering if you can grow corn in that region of the country, and also the mud flood theory!