An Inside Look At Montezuma Castle - Marvel at one of the best preserved cliff dwellings in the USA!
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Here is your chance to get a glimpse inside Montezuma Castle. Montezuma Castle has been without occupants for almost 600 years, but there are still corn cobs in the rooms and intricate carvings on the plaster walls. You won't get a peak inside like this anywhere else! Come along with us as we visit almost every room and all of the stories of this magnificent native american masterpiece!
I was there when I was 13 years old in 1966. My parents bought a brand new white 1966 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser and took our family on a grand tour from Alabama to the West Coast, with nine of us including my sister's girlfriend and our Grandmother. In the 1930s my Dad's family moved to Arizona and my Mom's family moved to Wyoming so they wanted us to see where they had lived in addition to seeing all of the historic and natural sites along the way. I remember a very long ramp from the visitor center to the bottom of rock formations below the dwellings. And yes, that makes me seventy now.
Imagine living there in the past and looking down at that view.
Went to see the castle today and was directed to this video by a park volunteer. So fortunate to be able to see the interior.
Wow, thanks for showing inside this structure. Must have been a magnificent place to live.
I lived in Arizona as a kid in the early 70s. The whole family was inside Montezuma Castle. I remember beer bottles laying around in it.
Wow! Big change since then!
@@theoldranger6924 Yeah, no more pigs allowed inside..😁🤨
Amazing how primitive the video quality was 25 years ago, On top of the mesa above the castle are quite a few mammoth tracks & trails preserved We used to hike through Beaver and dry Beaver creek alot when we lived out in Clear creek near Camp Verde. Some amazing ruins throughout that area.
When visitors ask me (a volunteer at MOCA) about views on the inside I will definitely recommend the take a look at this video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much! MOCA and MOWE are two of my favorite park units!
I actually got recommended this video today, I asked about social structure and who lived in these buildings. If that was you, thank you!
@@danielmarks204 well, I arranged the filming and took most of the video. If you have any questions about the Sinagua people, ask away!
I visited this a little before this video was taken. I always wanted to see the inside. So cool that corn cobs were found. It's a crop that originated in the Americas from native peoples. What was disappointing about the whole experience is the lack of knowledge and history around the people who created this. I wanted to know their story. But we just don't have it. It's been lost in time. I wish we knew more.
One has to be suspicious of any artifacts in that ruin , as it was open to the public , with regular visitors at one time , for many years .
People don't bring in fake artifacts. Is that what you are saying?
They steal them and take them home.
There are plenty ruins out there that fortunately still have artifacts, pictographs, fingerprints, and corn cobs left.
Yes they do , especially when there is money to be made . That whole area of the state , was in private hands for decades . Two Guns , that thing , etc . Some colorfull characters back in the 20's and 30's . When you are charging money for tours , they were known to set things around , here and there to make it more interesting . People were not conservation minded back then . My grandmother actually went in that thing as a teenager , because it was stilll open for that . She said you could clime the ladders and go in to every level , freely back then . Thats why I say , in that place , you have to be suspect about what you find , as that was looted long ago . What they find is what people looked at as junk , as they took anything intact of interest . @@bigshow5173
This is kind of a nightmare video...having to listen to their unenlightened babble with obscene language, people standing on fragile walls while park service ranger is present...ugh
I can guess we can then assume what's happening when the audio cuts out isn't worth hearing. I'm not surprised. these people seem so disinterested and disrespectful to me.
I was there. The first audio cut was when we spoke about having a sex party, the second one that happened while Bob was pointing the camera at the people we were saying “ok you, you, you, and you, come up and join us” to ourselves, implying we were inviting women up to our fake party. We did end up having some fun up there. Came multiple times.
Yes beautiful ruins great inheritance
Amazing
Very cool
Glad you like it! Have you been there?
Hearing them talk useless stuff is annoying. No dignity or respect. SMH.
Looks like the public could tour the homes, before the park service took it over.
Unfortunately
@@chesterfieldthe3rd929 Very unfortunately..😔
It was heavily looted and vandalized by the public in the 50s, sad indeed
Yeah so keeping it off limits is better. Thank God the Rangers act like God's in there.
So nat Arnold did some graffiti in that chamber?
This site is on our bucket list. Am always so impressed with the labor that goes in the building of a structure like this. Am also so upset to see the damage done to these structures by morons that have to carve their initials in the walls.
Disappointed, seemed more interested in how many people were viewing them from below than what they were having the privilege of seeing themselves!
I am Hopi. Us Hopis built that village. Thank you for being respectful of our home. Kwaakwayy
It’s likely not Hopi. It’s a Hohokam structure, so it’s more likely ancestral Pima or O’odham. That doesn’t mean there’s not ancestral Hopi structures though. Chaco Canyon (the largest ancient ruins in the Southwest) is ancestral pueblo, including Hopi. Homolovi is a group of incredible ruins that are almost certainly ancestral Hopi.
@@robchasing3140 no it is 100% Hopi built. Same as Montezuma Well. I was just at both sites over the weekend feeding the spirits at the sites. Pima doesn’t have kivas. The other tribe you said does not have kivas as well. On the information boards at all ruins sites everywhere say HOPI on it. Thank you very much.
@@tofreshboy3 are you saying the site isn’t Hohokam, or that Hohokam are ancestral Hopi?
@@robchasing3140 I’m saying those sites are Hopi. And if you were actually Native American or Hopi you’d know there WAS kivas there at these sites but they disappeared over time.
@@tofreshboy3 it seems my response was taken down for some reason. I shared some sources on Hohokam culture, how we know moctezuma’s castle is hohokam, that talked about tribal descendants the hohokam culture. I can try to send them again if you’d like. I guess my question is do you still think sites like Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde are Hopi as well? Because it’s pretty clear two different peoples built those and Hohokam sites. And Ancestral pueblo sites are pretty clearly Ancestral Hopi (and other pueblo peoples like Zunis).
How did they possibly raise children in these dwellings? How did they not slip off side?
That was back when humans were actually dexterous and fit... a LONG time ago
Poor jerky camera motion giving me a headache.
You lost me at slave flashes…. Also got vertigo from your palsy video…. Sad because I dig these old archeological vids.
Unfortunately this was created before the average 6 year old was a video expert.
bro, lol
Shouldn't be touching it at all
This is bullshit this could be anywhere
What a rude man....
Seems to be a incopataint bunch
"incopataint bunch" - This reelee hurded my brane to reed.