I Found Incredibly Well Preserved Ancient Ruins In A Remote Desert Canyon
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2024
- When it comes to cliff dwellings on the Colorado Plateau, there can be remarkably preserved ruins out there.
Years ago I got word of incredible ruins from the Ancestral Puebloan culture out in a remote canyon and I finally got around to getting out there and having a look after a short stint of being down with the flu.
What I found was mind blowing. Most of the ruins were excellently preserved and there was even what I believe to be a Kiva with those ruins in a deep alcove in the canyon. Fascinating.
It's said the Colorado Plateau was largely abandoned prior to the year 1300AD, so these ruins could very well be 900 years old.
Imagine what life was like in this spot so many years ago, much to contemplate!
Please join me as I head out into the desert to discover what once was...
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Visitation to sites such as this should be done with the utmost respect. The artwork is not simply graffiti, it is a window into the past and it is culturally significant. Please take great care when visiting and observing these places. - Zábava
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Those were quite the ruins, thanks again for the opportunity to follow along with you on your adventures!
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ABSOLUTELY AN AWESOME SITE...a glimps of the past...Thanks for having us all Along...
Awesome. I can’t believe it’s still standing but I’m so glad we get to see it. Thank you for the adventure to the past. ❤
Amazing structures, so well preserved. The lintels at the windows and doorways are in great shape, and that round dwelling is fascinating. Didn't look like there were any pottery shards, or maybe just a few (?). Thanks for sharing and kudos for your respectful treatment of these awesome places.
awesome site thanks f sharing
love watching these vids of ancient native american sites ,,
Where the pueblo people grew corn/maize. Keep in mind that the entire desert southwest had a radically different climate in the pre-Columbian era. Even in what appears to be a desolate area today.
Some of the best photography I’ve ever seen. Good job!
Enjoying your content more and more. So envious that you get to play out there so often. Always great to see your adventures.
That was a lovely spot. It definitely had soot remnants in the ceiling area so they did stay there when it was cold. Thanks for taking us along!😀😀👍👍
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What a spot. And all to yourself … nothing to distract you from the contemplating
Thanks very much for sharing your treks and finds! I love it.
Pretty cool D-Rock! Looks to be Pueblo II-III, jive may suggest Pueblo IV.
Amazing with that much exposure, the plaster is so intact.
The poles and holes for them, remind me of Cohohina type building, with ramadas attached to buildings.
My bet is, that one family lived there, to caretaker the kiva for ceremony. This is still done today at a few Rio Grand Pueblos. Chaco is similar in that perspective too. Those large structures were probably not used but at certain times. What they don’t talk on in Chaco big house sites, I’d the hundreds of field houses and great houses across the landscape.
So amazing, so interesting. Thank you for your efforts.
Nice hike in beautiful surroundings. The ruins projected a sadness to me. It did seem a small community or extended family made a go of life there. Whatever caused them to leave it looks like some person or more destroyed the Kiva and much of other parts.
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3.Living the dream beats sending emails and updating spreadsheets
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Absolutely beautiful! Made me think of the concept of Supernatural Responsibility in the Physical.
Amazing! Thank you.
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Fascinating, indeed! Interesting that you didn't come across any pottery shards, or were you just not looking for any? I love and am at the same time frustrated by the mystery surrounding places like this. Thanks for sharing!
There were pot sherds around, I just didn't focus on them this time. Thanks for watching!
What a really cool and incredible place. I find it interesting that there seems to be little to no rock art or pottery around. Almost makes me wonder if they were only there for a short period of time for some reason..
I thoroughly enjoyed watching your jaunt across the American desert in search of these cliff dwellings. I must say, though, that the background music that you've chosen to play is quite haunting, reminiscent of by-gone eras and lives that once were. Thanks, pal.
Wow! Awesome. Music was perfect. I am speechless. What a site!
What a wonderful trip this was. Who knows really why they chose these secluded sites? If you grew up here and its all you knew that would be amazing I bet.
Their society split into two classes then there was some sort of revolt with one class of people fleeing into the canyons and cliff dwellings, some sites have shown evidence of canabalism and battles
Excellent video . Well done and thanks .
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New sub. Love these vids. Thank you for sharing.
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Great video
Nice work. Thank you.
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To think something that is 1,000+ years old and the peoples that have passed through the centuries and there are those corn cobs. Another fascinating thing is there is no apparent evidence that anyone else has researched the place, i.e. archeologist or college kids on some kind of assignment, camping & drinking site etc., almost a virgin find for contemporaries. Had to be an amazing experience.
I enjoyed your video. We don't have anything like that where I live. It was very cool to see ancient ruins. Especially in such great condition. A long time ago people lived and died there. If I could magically see into the past what happened way back then it would be truly amazing. We can only imagine. A place like that gives us an idea. Certain clues. It is up to our imagination to fill in the blanks. Thank you for your awesome video 😁
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13K views, cmon people at least subscribe!! Great work!
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the corn cobs left an impression in the clay. I saw pottery chards.
Totally cool thanks again thanks for your effort thoroughly enjoyed it you're the best🎉 thoroughly fascinating I like to imagine what it look like way back when when it was inhabited and what they were sitting there doing. What their life was like.
Another great adventure D-ROCK! Have you explored the amazing Cedar Mesa in S.E. Utah?
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it! I'm kind of saving that area, but yes, I have done some walking in the general area. I will have content from that region in the very near future.
Thanks for taking us along on all these historic adventures. Quick question, in all the vids I've watched you have the background music, what's the name of the band or musicians. Thanks again and I will check out your work into the future.
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Absolutely incredible place! I'm gonna have to put in some literal and figurative "leg work" to find this place 😆. I know it'll be worth the effort though!
Great content! That looks like an amazing ruin. So many theories as to why people lived in the cliffs at that time, and yet we still don't have a clue or answer.
Heavy .👍
Nice song ! Ballad to a Mexican!
Nice remote habitat, It's a shame what looters and vandals do to these places, the kiva wall sides were obviously dug into and trenched as were the floors of the existing rooms left erect, early archeologists in the area had free reign on sites in the southwest like the wetherwills who were basically glorified treasure hunters & tomb looters, selling their finds to collectors & museums around the world in the name of science From.the 1950's to the '80's its seems like a more destructive disrespectful subhuman element visited these places climbing on and toppling walls & structures looking for loot inside the thicker walls which by all standards were so stout they should still be standing. Corn was dry crop grown on mesa tops depending on monsoon rains and canyon bottomland where corn, beans and squash could be irrigated but.seasonal flash floods were always a major problem cultivating the more productive bottomlands with the potential fields washing away in short order. according to academics most the cliff dwelling structures were occupied for a very short period of maybe 1 or 2 generations before being completely abandoned There was alot of movement and migrations in all directions both coming in and going out between 1000 & 1400 prolonged droughts, resource shortages creating territorial conflicts, with reliable water sources being the source for survival & were sought out. The Rio Grande & Colorado rivers and drainages became heavily populated as was the Verde, Gila and Salt rivers all became virtual melting pots for many cultures who could co exist in peace. While others engaged in regional conflicts over water.
Total shame. Kind of kept that to myself while I was there but it was pretty obvious the place had been sacked.
Curious do you carry a snake bite kit? We have Water Moccasins where I live, nasty aggressive little buggers.
Could the "kiva pit" be the source of the clay ?? For building material?
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Sharping tools and weapons on the wall makes scrapings
Places like these always make me wonder why some walls are standing intact and nearby others lay about in ruins? It doesn't seem plausible that the ruined walls just fell down over time due to weather, erosion, etc. In many cases the former building stones are scattered all over, which look to me like they were deliberately demolished. Anyone else have similar (or different) ideas?
The place was more than likely looted at one point by pot hunters. May have been partially excavated as well back in the 60's. Either way, the ruins were looted. Most of them are.
Giants
I believe Chico Canyon was one of the last stand line of defense
Evidence of catabolism is prevalent there.
Well narrated and filmed. Kudos for saying granaries over grainaries.
What you mentioned about pulling up the ladders and waiting out the seeds that's exactly what people all around the world did in caves man-made structures Etc have you heard of the term King of the Hill that's where that comes from. PS lots of people didn't survive the siege waiting it out doesn't work all the time. Which is probably why these were abandoned think on it. My guess is a bigger War like tribe weighted them out just like you said. It's all Theory and conjecture unless we get a time machine
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I have a lot of opinions based on actual scientific fact. I know about a lot of the Native American ancestral stories and tribal stories and the way they explain how they got along with other tribes Etc. And I will tell you there were peaceful tribes War like tribes excetera just depended on the ones you got came across. If there were people who were dominated and people who were weak. Lots of them dominated other tribes that took slaves and concubine. You're not going to hear that in your high school history class. Lots of tribes were bad ass people known for their Warrior Palace. My teacher was full Native American and went to Vietnam. He told his father he was worried about coming back from Vietnam and he explained that you're from a warrior tribe of course you're coming back🎉
How come we don’t see any clothes, shoes, utensils, ,,,,etc ??
Because it was all looted years ago.
An interesting but not so 'delicate' observation... Corn cobs were used in various ways over the centuries - one of them being a source of 'toilet paper'... That's why one often finds small pieces around ancient sites ... Just like humans needed water, there were other daily needs too...🤭
We Assyrian native tribes in Iraq lived in hard places to find to escape persecution and genocide!
thank you !
Did you leave the lights on?
Nope, sure didn't.