Ancient Village Discovered on Google Earth in The American Southwest?
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
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I took a big gamble on this one. I wasn't sure anything would be there, but the clues were too tempting to dismiss...
Thank you for joining me on this adventure! I made a base camp in Southeastern Utah (since I don't want to camp alone in the middle of the wilderness) near town. After a nap and a change of clothes, I was on the road again to my final destination: to see what this was!
I hope you enjoyed this trip! Thank you for being part of The Trek Planner!
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1:38 I've never seen these 'honour system' containers at campsites! Awesome! :D
AMAZING EXPLORE!
There are a few of these remaining where you don’t need reservations! lol That’s why I like this one
@@TheTrekPlanner Old school camping, best camping! 😃😃👍👍
Kudos! You respected the site by putting everything you picked up right back where you found it. That is one of the biggest problems with many people who come to ancient sites. There is so much that can be learned by researchers when they come to look at a site.
Oh shut up. There is nothing wrong with surface hunting. No digging!
I agree with you, someone else would have kicked down the walls
@@77justin96 m0r0n
As a potter myself I'm always astounded at how many pieces you find. Also, I wonder in 1000 years from now, will someone be finding little pieces of my pottery and wondering about me.
Some archeologist will find your pottery and say it was used in a religious ceremony. LOL
Yes, no question. It does depend upon where your pot finishes. Our landfills will be excavated thousands of years from now. The one thing I know that will be ubiquitous, Porcelain toilets. Our white toilets are capable of lasting millions of years. Landfills excavated 10 or 20 million years from now will be dated by the white toilets. AND your pottery. (It may well be the descendants of our modern ants doing the excavating.)
I am reaching seventy in around a month. Doing something like you do was a something I did at your age. I admire you because your family is also involved at times and I am very envious of you because now I have health problems where I can’t do what you do but I watch your videos. I am very good fan of yours. You found a treasure today. It’s a very, very old Pueblo I suspect. It’s good you found it and I notice you treat it with respect. That’s awesome. Keep doing this regardless. Your family and you will have beautiful memories of those times. More of these fascinating videos too. Thank you!
You and me both brother, at 53 i am reliving my days out there vicariously through his adventures. use to spend a bit of time out there myself when i was young. miss the conversation and camaraderie of the locals i use to frequent out there. spent many nights in the cliffs camping eating and drinking with some of the old timers. Now all i have are photographs.
Thank you so much, Bob! It's not always possible (and easy!) to take everyone, but I love those trips the most! Thank you for your comment and kind words!
@@UrbCrafter Yes I miss those days. If I could, I would spend the rest of my days just exploring different places. I love these videos like you do. They keep me happy and I enjoy watching the young man find these places better than any other videos
I love that you show us, then put these treasures back where you found them. Love the respect that you give.
I worked in the 4 Corners area and had the opportunity to do a lot of back country, off-trail exploring. The thing that astounded me was the amount of pottery 4:16 shards I continually came across, to be found everywhere I went. It would indicate that the region was at one time heavily populated.
At 4:20 I thought you found an earring in the green vegetation in the upper right hand corner of the screen! Hahaha I’m too much of a lost artifact junky!
What broke the pottery? Could it be the wind? Or a heavy snow load? Or cavemen
No, it only means that a small population left a lot of trash. Thin walled pottery easily breaks, in one year dozens could be broken, and dozens broken each year after. It was easy, and some women perhaps their full time job, to make more pottery.
The population was the same 800 years ago as it is now... sickness came 500 years ago and then the spaniards... The population was already on the decline when the spanish arrived, and it just got worse from there...
@ derp
When that settlement existed the area was a tropical paradise
Man! You're gonna keep us all entertained using all your spare time finding these spots.
It's crazy what you can find if you know what you're looking for.
Thank you so much!
@@TheTrekPlanner I'm lucky enough to have a good buddy who does my editing, but also I capture and post whatever I happen to see next, so it takes much less of my free time than your fantastic channel takes you!
I plan on continuing watching everything you post.
Many thanks for sharing your trips. Watching these videos and how carefully you replace each shard; I perceive a sense of quiet, respect, and serenity, much needed in this chaotic world.
As a lady of a mature age, a wish at the top of my list is to find a companion for adventures like this. So much of the world we don't know; thank you for leaving its integrity as you found it.
Thank you, Tee King!
Just like fine wine.this is a awesome findfor our viewing pleasure
Some kid discovered an ancient buried city using Google Earth awhile back.
Scientists went out with ground penetrating radar imaging. Sure enough the kid was right..🤗👍😎
the petroglyphs @9:16 are actually sharpening marks used to sharpen their tools before a hunt.
Wrong.
@@headlessspaceman5681 no
I've read stories in old hunting magazines about ranchers and old timers, even recently, coming across old villages and graves in places like you find and being urged to not reveal locations for fear of looters. It's cool to know these places are still out there, hiding and waiting. I think it was an old 'Backwoodsman' magazine or something.
Be careful out there, and thank you!!!❤❤❤
This is a good point. I really want to know these locations so I can try to Google Earth them and perhaps someday visit, but some would steal and ruin the location.
@@JerryBWagoner just get permission for your own safety.
Thanks for showing us what the pottery looks like when its not busted
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Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for the respect you showed to the site. That is the benchmark of a true explorer. Love your channel.
Exactly the kind of video I hoped you would make! A map that gives the general location without being specific, thus protecting it from intentional damage. Identification of the people who lived there. Evidence of their lives- building techniques, pot shards, art work. Just the right length.
I have spent time looking at each area you identified on Google maps, including St. George, Kenab and Navajo Mountain. I even looked at the supermarket and the surrounding town! Without leaving my house, I have a glimpse of how Native Americans lived 1000 years ago and how Utahns (or Utahans) live now. I will spend time this week learning about the Anasazi, more about the national and state parks of Southern Utah and the flora and fauna of the area. So much better than watching TV or a movie. Thank you so much!
Wow wouldn't it be fun to go back with a achaeologist and see what they think about the site and the ruins. Pretty cool
I would like to see all of the artifacts and learn what tribe or tribes were occupying the site!
Oh my goodness! You out did yourself on this one!! What an amazing place to see. Wouldn't it be neat to have just a glimpse of a day in that big village, back a thousand years ago? To watch the people go about their day, and see what the community looked like when it was being used would be amazing. Great video!!!👏👏👍Please be safe!!
Thank you, Sandy! I love just sitting nearby and imagining what this area would have been like!
Great Searching and Discoveries !
You leave it the way you find it
& this is Commendable !
Your videos are so cool. You live in an area where there are still locations that are primitive, historical and relatively unexplored. Has a history buff I wish I lived in that kind of an area. Keep it up so we can all live vicariously through
Thank you so much! I figure that many of these sites have been looted too which unfortunately means that many of the original structures were destroyed :-/
I have a love for the west and ancient ruins of America. Being from Indiana, trips to the west of few and far between. I enjoy living vicariously through your adventures. Please keep them coming, and I hope your channel grows exponentially. Be safe.
I too am from Indiana, the northern Kankakee region. This area has a rich Native American history. Unfortunately it cannot be explored as easily because it being farmland and/or privately owned and they’re not keen to letting people poke around their property.
The majority of people are not interested in native artifacts or their history. One reason why people do not know of these things.
@@robwoodke6592 so much stuff in the flatrock river area and great fossils
@@goodeye6373 most all land in the east is private and farmers don't want to lose use of their land. 20,000 years of living means most places have stuff. my brother picked up over a hundred points on our small farm near catawba ohio. he would look in a freashly plowed field after a rain. likely way more natives living in the east for its size cause better game and water.
@@victorhopper6774 I had said to other people pre Columbus that the East was full of people. Don't know what happened perhaps they burnt the dead after Columbus, but people assumed that there was not a large population East of the Mississippi. Also Native Americans are one of the least studied people . People were discredited for years for having older dates than the land bridge theory people and not changing the narrative for years.
Another great find Mr. Trekker! Your skills at spotting these sites on google are really advancing archeology and I'm surprised you haven't been contacted by universities in the four corners region. Of course, they probably yawn at your discoveries, as they are aware of hundreds of these settlements they know they will never get around to exploring because of funding or local tribal sensitivities. But it's a real hoot for us amateurs, so keep 'em coming!
Thank you kindly! I love this stuff!!
I've shown pictures of some of the things I found to a BLM ranger a while ago and he just said "that's neat" and that was it. I asked him if he had any information about it and he basically just said that almost all of the sites are known, but haven't been properly surveyed or studied and probably won't ever be. I'm not saying every site should be surveyed or looked at, but I feel like it's important to at least take pictures of them!
This are so great, we share a spirit in this sort of discovery - may I suggest maybe packing a Dual Lens Inspection Camera with Light with a 10 or 16' cable? It would allow you to look into some of the caves without disturbing the entrance.
That is a great idea, Jamie!
Very well done, a rare find, those "tower" look very much like burial mounds we have here in Africa. The pottery can even be grave goods. It does look like grave robbers was digging the area. Which is very sad. A lot of cultures would set areas out for the dead, where they would build structures like these to house the dead. Also it looks like multiple cultures used the area by the different building styles. Nice work on spotting the rock art in the area. Well done.
That region, there's tons of cliff dwelling ruins, glyphs, etc. Glad no one decided to dig up that entranceway. Thanks Jeff!
Wow. This IS exciting. Thanks for sharing your discovery with us!
You're doing a great service for American history awareness
Thank you! I love this area!
New viewer here from AZ. Your "I don't know everything" attitude and your absolute respect for the locations is so enjoyable to watch. I will be catching up on all of them. Great work and hope you continue to do so well.
Thank you, David! I truly don't know everything haha I'm just an unlearned explorer who loves this stuff! Thank you for being part of my channel! Means so much to me!
Very cool I love finding places like that out in the desert nice video😊
Thanks for sharing your trips with us...I love how you are so reverent in your approach to the history of these areas...
After living on the Navajo Rez with my kids mom, I found many interesting places like what you have found. Sometimes while following the sheep and goats across the big mesa I would stumble across pot shards. Sometimes if you can find cliff dwellings like I did you will see the finger prints of those who lived the there. I saw many unbelievable beautiful rock art. It was amazing living in the four corners area.
That is so amazing to see not only the cliff dwellings and pot shards, but to also see the finger prints is just so incredible!
I live in Colorado and have seen more of the state than most of its residents. Your treks have shown me how much more there is to see here and in the other "four corners" states. I am deeply grateful for all you are doing to not only uncover this lost history, but also teaching all of us how we can both learn about and respect the land we live on. Thank you so much for your work. I am a subscriber and am telling my friends and family about what you are doing. Keep up the good work!!
Thank you so much, Raymond!! And thank you for sharing my channel with your family and friends! Means so much to me!
@@TheTrekPlanner Jeff, you are doing incredible work! I am pleased to see how you are sharing your discoveries with all of us, and I believe your work will have significant impact for all of us throughout the country. I want to support it any way I can.
Super cool. I so agree with the respect you show to these sites. Thank you.
I greatly respect the way you do your channel, it's content, and your really cool little family, best wishes...
I love that you find interesting things, but you put them back where you found them. Many people would just take everything. Much love and respect from Australia 👍
Thank you for your comment! It’s beyond me why people would want to steal from these places
Congratulations. If you decide to tell anyone about your find, you might want to start with a state university. They might be able to point you in the right direction or do some excavations themselves. The size of the area is what impresses me. It was big, and something of that size was not common.
Please, no excavations. Respect ancestral Pueblo sites.
That last footage from the drone was insane, the amount of rubble was stunning. What you created was visual testament to the ingenuity, tenacity, and creative power of those ancient people. It left me in awe of the spirit of those people, and your love redicovering them for all of us. Truly your video was amazing, and you did it all with reverence for them as human beings worthy of our respect. As a Digital Artist with for years experience in the digital realm I appreciate their artistic skill. Thank You Trek Planner. Now I Wish You A Glorius Week!!!
Your eye for spotting these places is amazing! I love that you are leaving everything the way you found it! Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Bulgaria!
Thank you for interesting videos. I really respect and admire your commitment to tread lightly on these treasures.
Wish I could wander in Utah, but I live too far away. Therefore I travel vicariously by way of these trips you take. I’m grateful for these!
I live in Utah, this way of life here is quickly evaporating. We get thousands of Californians and Mexicans monthly and it is getting so crowded, even in the rural areas unfortunately. They don't respect the land or the history unfortunately.
Thank you, Chris! Happy to have you part of the adventure with me!
Hi from Alberta Canada! Where I live we have a lot of indigenous ancient areas too and see a lot of similar rock art but very different way of life. Very interesting Videos it’s great to see your reverence for the artefacts too. Thanks.
I like how you see an interestin inkg spot on GE and you actually GO there . That was really an impressive area.
Wow - What an amazing video! Thanks so much for bringing us along on these adventures.
The Drone footage made it so easy to see how large scale this settlement was.
Awesome finds! BTW, you're a brave man for heading out into the backcountry in an Impala. Props to you, dude!
haha thank you! The Impala is nearing it's last days...It has been with me for quite some time and is begging to be retired!😂😂
This is awesome! Last summer I used google earth and a state LiDAR site to find Native American structures in the northeast! The rock piles/ towers actually remind me of all the smaller piles I saw. So they’re actually shaped and either carved, they could have paint also. Over here the natives would do that as promise stones or like I’m going to catch more food for my tribe and maybe for paying homage to nature for resources! I know for sure you passed thousands of effigy stones, next time u go back try and find some!! Also try and find the state LiDAR page and you’ll really see structures that blending in. Frickin Awesome vid man
That is so cool! I would so love to see some of the places you've scanned with LiDAR! I had no idea there were even resources out there for that kind of thing. Thank you for the suggestion!
This very much reminds me of what i see on another YT channel from the Middle east where they search out and locate ancient works like you have there.. After watching a few of there videos i can see a great deal of carved large rock that just jumped right out at me when you showed them .. Very interesting indeed thank you !
Very interesting...what a great adventure. Pretty good drone shots too.
Thanks for sharing! This place is awesome! So many structures of all types in one place. Great adventure, looking forward to the next one ☮
Thank you so much for all your videos! I’m planning my next vacation and it’s Utah! I loved that you said you felt “reverence.” I was told that whenever I enter any ancient site I should pause, give thanks to the ancestral elders of the land and then ask permission to enter. Close your eyes and wait. If you feel yourself leaning forward then you have permission to enter. When you leave, give thanks to the ancestral elders again. Thank you again for the great videos. You are doing an awesome job!!
Have you ever been to Hueco Tanks in El Paso County , Texas? There is an ancient Indian ruin area. Great videos you've posted. Thanks Trek Planner.
Fascinating that you were able to identify this spot from google earth. I do hope some university takes this spot on as a research project.
Great work. Such a fantastic place to explore.
When you find a place like this, do you ever report it to local archaeologists or whatever? I have to imagine you’re one of the only people to have set eyes on this in hundreds of years.
I agree Mark, it's worth at least making a few phone calls huh?
In this area there is no shortage of things for archeologists to study. It is highly likely they already know about it. Hidden in plain sight if you will.
Don' report nothing
Major props my friend for being so respectful of the site . Most people watching your videos don't understand the reverence that you have for the people who built this place . Once again thank you for your respect .
Would probably be better to contact a nearby tribal leader
One wonders how much of these sites you visit have been studied (at all) or have been mapped (at all) ??
Wow man...thanks for taking us to these places that I doubt I will ever get out to see. That would be so exciting.
I was so impressed at your reverence for the sites, and that you put everything back gently. I love the black on white pottery. I have bought reproduction mugs that are black pattern on white at the Mesa Verde gift shop. More than once actually, as I've broken them! It's been years since I've been back, but all of my mugs are broken so I guess I need to plan another trip. Thanks for a great video! (And, yes, I drop things a lot!)
Thanks for the great video(s)!! I've watched several of your videos and I'm really enjoying vicariously exploring with you and in some cases your family. What I always wonder is "What happened?". These individuals seemed to have a striving community and culture and then it just seems to disappear leaving only remnants. We'll probably never know for sure.
nomadic and disease. in a place dry even firewood would quickly be a problem. no horses to hual anything. hard rough life.
Ask the locals, they will tell you where they went...
@@victorhopper6774 You watch to much national geographic lol...
@@UrbCrafter have never watched it but it is clear a place there would not support many for long.
@@victorhopper6774 That is the problem with the ideology of uniformitarianism. Look at the quantity of grain storage sites throughout the Anasazi region, if you gathered up all the corn cobs you could pile them higher than the deepest canyon in Utah.
Do you really think this area was always a dry arid dust bowl? Do you really think this civilization lived here only a thousand years ago? Why did they go from a ground dwelling people to hanging off the cliffs in caves and structures made of stones they hauled up there with their bare hands?
This was a civilization of 30 to 50 thousand people that vanished overnight in terms of history. Research what they left behind. not the crap the mainstream archaeologists and anthropologist are pushing.
Look at the pictographs and petroglyphs they left behind and read the lore. These people did not just die out or move on, and the four corners region are not the only place they inhabited. research what the spiral petroglyphs meant/mean to them and other groups from the region....
I have seen things on those canyon walls that are not part of mainstream historic record, things that are dismissed as fanciful or imaginary depictions, things that there is no possible way they could have drawn without having witnessed with their own eyes and i have seen things that we are told no one has ever seen or that never existed but there they are, painted on a rock face in the middle of nowhere and ignored by the very people we trust to investigate these things.
Everyone holds the people of this region in high regard until they try to tell them the truth about their history then its dismissed as myth and legend.
Do you report these finds to Archaeologists? If so how do you decide whether or not to?
These are definitely ruins and should be reported to the antiquities and First Nation authorities.
@@SongOfSongsOneTwelve When I started hiking in southern Utah, I reported the first site I found to the State Archaeologist’s office. I was completely ignored. There is an undocumentably large supply of ancient remains in this area.
@@mirandamom1346 That's sad to hear. You'd think they'd want to investigate all findings.
@@johnmca5643 Maybe they’d like to, but I imagine it would be far more manpower than their budget allows.
@@mirandamom1346 it would take more man power than this country has... there are too many of these sites... your local shopping mall probably replaced one of these important sites... I think they all should be investigated heavily!!!
Thank you for an inquisitive mind backed by field work!!
Thank you!!
It is facinating to see these places and think about those who once lived there. Thanks for making and sharing these videos.
This site is a gold mine for archeology I'm shocked it's Just sitting out there
My thought too. Although, I didn’t show it in the video, but now I feel like this place has been looted in the past
Many of the ruins could well be unknown. Your maps might well be very valuable to the people who study this stuff.
Thank you!
I absolutely love this area of the country. I've driven through here many times in the last 5 years. There's always something new, and beautiful to look at. When you are out there you realize how far away from everything out there. Alot of untouched beauty.
Oh and an answer to your question. Yes I am enjoying it very much. Thank you for being so interested, and so respectful at the same time. Love the channel!
Lovely! It reminds me of Hovenweep.
With all the effort you put into it you should write a report of what you find with photos, koordinates, finds etc. Then send it to the nearest university with an archaeological department - the site might be unknown to them!
When you find these archeological sites, do you notify authorities so the site can surveyed, and preserved?
Super cool, keep it up. What fun you must have!
Amazing work, thank you for putting in the time
I would be so tempted to dig out that entrance way! I know you should leave it to the professionals though. Do you have to report finds like this?
I was thinking the same thing, except without anyone with you, that could become your tomb.
There are hundreds if not thousands of these sites, most professionals don't really care about these sites, unfortunately they have already been plundered.
Do. Not. Dig. Native ruins. Do NOT dig Native ruins. Do not dig NATIVE AMERICAN ruins. Just don't. Can you imagine teams of, say, Chinese archaeologists digging up your grandparents' cemetery? Seems kinda messed up doesn't it?
Can you start showing more of the ruins. I feel like it's hard for me to watch when I barely see anything once you get to the ruins. These videos are more of the journey and I want more ruins. Even if it's just rocks. More details of the ruins.. thanks.
Cool find. The southwest is littered with ruins I always wanted to go on horseback and just ride looking around at remote places myself .
Thanks for sharing
I can relate. Would be so fun to just wander around for days and explore
@@TheTrekPlanner I camped out in Abiquiu nm for a summer by the rio chama river and up on the side of the mesa found lots of pottery shards and found man sized large holes cut into the side of hill where they must have cooked or fired their pottery from the smoke stains inside.
Mosquitos were so bad that they kept you inside after sunset so I don’t know how they ever lived with that problem.
Wow! You found some cool stuff. That is so rad! You’re in a good position to inform the right people.
Nice to see your channel growing! You deserve it! Have you taken any pottery to an Archaeologist to confirm? Really cool stuff as always!
Would be nice to be see what's inside of those caves as well. I noticed that you don't like to go inside the caves or explore them, even in the shallow ones
Wow, your video cam is really great. The quality is immense.
How cool is this place?!!!! It must be hard to leave such a large community. So much to see. Well done on finding this and sharing it. Thanks.
If those structures were not leveled by a conquering army the earthquakes since they were built must have been massive.
An amazing find! Very unusual! I wish an artist could reconstruct it virtually! But, sometimes the imagination is the best artist! Thank you for sharing this. So interesting!
It is very interesting to see all that once was. Totally normal to have reverence if you are spiritually awake, you feel what once was. Thanks for sharing.
It's amazing how long those pottery shards have just been sitting there as silent witness to those who lived there. I can sense the energy even through the video. Thank you for being so respectful.
There is a history of the Americas that has yet to be fully told. Thank you for doing your bit to bring some of it to us.
Excellent find! That is too cool.
Thank you for sharing and also for leaving the potsherds in place for others to enjoy.
The best way to honor these people is to either understand them (ie report to a university or local tribe or both for study) or to leave it as you find it the way you do. Both are correct. Respect.
I just found your channel today. It is really good. I used to love to explore but I am 79 and can only explore on CZcams now. Gramma Candy
Welcome aboard and thanks for joining with me!!
Thank you for showing us these sites, and thank you for respecting them.
It is amazing what history is just all over and unprotected. I’m glad you respected it! Great adventure and it makes me miss Utah, my home state. I’ll actually be back and visiting in a few weeks and we tend to find a few artifacts on some of our land. Mostly small pottery and arrow heads. But, I don’t even take those off our private land.
Must be nice to live in such an archeology hot spot. The southwest is so cool.
Thanks for posting 🙏… that is an amazing place 👌.
Surely somebody will have explored and analysed what it was all about.
As you say it was very strange to find so few petroglyphs… maybe there would be more inside the caves?
Well worth the effort to go there!
This is one you are unlikely to forget 👏👍
New here and completely blown away. Amazing stuff! Wow!
How cool! You showed the intact pottery! Great! Really enjoy your videos.
It's fun to imagine bodies of water in these valleys, and differences in the surrounding foliage.
Anyone wearing a Boston hat is a knowledgeable person and good enough for me. Love the video
Wow! Very interesting. The site looked like a very large community! Thank you for sharing!
Very cool, thanks for taking us along on your adventure!
your research methods, what you share with us, is remarkable. great job, really!
these are the types of places I like to go and find herbs and clay... I am a potter and an herbalist and I find that near these establishments there are usually more edible and medicinal plants than in random areas throughout similar regions... come check out our pottery, Sir! We are native Americans, but not full blood... so we make pottery from the pueblos mostly! Great videos, Sir! Keep making them and we will keep watching!
Thank you for putting all the pieces back close to how you found them. Great job
Fantastic! I feel like I'm there with ya, so exciting. I appreciate your efforts.☺💚
I loved it! Thank so much. Nothing like a warm sleeping bag after a day out.