I always look forward to your videos! I used to camp and hike and fish, but I am now disabled and pretty much home bound. I get such joy and a thrill seeing the amazing finds and beautiful landscapes. Every so often I save screenshots to do painting with. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures!
If I could get 1/10th the love of Jeff from viewers of my videos, I might feel like I'm doing something good. But I'm old. And bald. And missing teeth. Sigh...
All these ruins are testament to the resiliency of these ancient peoples. Thanks for taking us there. I notice your audio is great when the camera is facing you, however when you point it away your voice is muted. Maybe need a lapel Mike. Thx
I think you might be right about the hole in the bolder... that was my first consideration as well... The holes acted as sink holes for branches to create what ever soft organic material woven between the frame work to provide breathable solution for enclosure.
I really enjoy your videos. Im 74 now and cant explore anymore but i did all my life. I grew up here in Arizona and explored alot of these sites. Thanks for bringing me along
Last time I was hunting ruins in Utah, we met three other explorers, a strenuous 2 mile hike away from the trailhead. All three of the other explorers were over 80! (and all three in better physical shape than the average forty-year-old American! ) I hope I'll still be exploring at that age, but I'm glad people like Jeff will give me an opportunity to keep discovering new places even when I can't get there myself anymore!
At 5:34 Not my content here, but cupules are very interesting. Some have a red ochre or ground hematite base color, signifying girls' coming-of-age ceremony. In Native American culture, "cupules" refer to small, rounded depressions carved into rocks, often considered a type of petroglyph, which are believed to have been created for ceremonial purposes related to fertility, rainmaking, or other spiritual practices, depending on the tribe and region, with the specific meaning often open to interpretation due to lack of detailed historical records. Key points about cupules in Native American culture: Appearance: Cupules are small, bowl-shaped depressions pecked or pounded into rock surfaces, resembling a rounded indentation. Symbolic associations: Many scholars link cupules to fertility symbols, potentially representing the female form due to their shape. Ritualistic use: Some theories suggest that the rock powder created while making cupules might have been used in fertility rituals. Regional variations: The meaning and interpretation of cupules can vary depending on the specific Native American tribe and geographic location. Other potential meanings: Some researchers speculate that cupules could also be associated with rainmaking rituals or other ceremonial practices based on local beliefs.
This is the kind of information that make me come back for more. Seeing things is way cool but the answers to the “whys or what does it mean or how” is the whole purpose I watch. thank you TheDesertWalker for filling my knowledge to the top today!
Chinking as a term is was certainly used in the Eastern US several centuries ago, typically used tu describe materials, often mud, inserted between logs in log cabins, but perhaps in other situations also.
Amazing video, as always. Longtime watcher and first-time commenter. LOL! It was so frustrating to watch this video because when you were talking about the carved indentations on that sandstone platform, I kept wanting you to pan up to see if there were corresponding indentations on the ceiling. I was yelling at the screen way before you even began postulating about it later. Thankfully, @07:18 rolled around, and for a couple of seconds, you see very deliberate indentations in the ceiling. What's *really* interesting is that the structure below the platform at @06:30 looks a lot like a large bread baking oven or pottery kiln. There looks to be quite a bit of burned material on the bottom of the pit, so I think my hypothesis is supported. My second and unsupported hypothesis is that whatever was draped off the wooden poles braced in those platform/ceiling indentations was to shield the heat emanating from the oven/kiln. How's that for a run-on sentence? 😂 Thoughts? P.S. Can you call me from the field so I can direct your camera shots, too? LOL!! 😂😂😂😂
When you come to a structure it would be nice if you pointed your camera out towards the landscape that these people would be looking at from their door.. 😊
( Huge Smile ) You make an old gal feel like a kid, scrambling , out exploring and making it so much fun, and really makes you think about people who were here before us. The stone work on that structure is tight! Yes they call it “Chinking” also when building Log Cabins. Side Note: I grew up in England, and we buried some items in our back yard, for someone to find in a few thousand years. Hihi.
My best guess would be that you’re correct about the wood in the divots created in the stone, but I would suggest that it is to protect them from many predators. I’m going to guess that they created some sort of cage so that everyone could sleep and someone didn’t have to stand guard all night.
Such an interesting place. What do you think made the honeycomb roof over the one ruin? Thank you for teaching all of us to respect the ruins! Love your treks!
It looked to me like that could be ancient gas escaping the mud. Or maybe it was underwater in the past and it's a coral fossil, which is what I thought first. Fascinating and fun stuff! So cool 🥰 😎🙌🏼🏆 Thank youuu!!🙏🏻🥳
I love watching your videos. The canyons are awesome to see. It's like walking in the Tennessee mountains here. It's amazing to just see nature and wonder about how people lived 100's of years ago. It's so fascinating and beautiful! Thank you 😊
Here’s another idea for the carved holes: the boulder may have been an alter of sorts and they may have filled those depressions with fat and lit them like candles.
Your adventures are a breath of fresh air. This one was extra special with intact architecture as well as pictographs. And the scenery was beautiful! A welcome distraction from all the craziness in our current world.
Thank you for taking me along on your explorations. You allow so many of us to see things we would never otherwise ever see. I look forward to seeing where you will take us next.
Some of the Wood Structure still standing and some nice Rock Art - and an amazing complete Ruin - wow indeed ! A very Enjoyable Adventure - keep it coming ! Many Cheers from Australia !
Without seeing more of the area, It's hard for me to be sure, but that really looks like a dried up spring cistern. I also think you may be right about those divots in that boulder, too. They were likely used to friction fit logs to build a mud wall. A lot of these sites were built around springs and were abandoned when the spring stopped being reliable, based on what I've been able to figure examining some 300 sites.
My family loves your videos. We always learn so much & appreciate your care of the land & artifacts. We get to adventure vicariously through you & your enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you so much for your content.
I absolutely love your channel and appreciate all the time and effort you put into it. I also appreciate that you are not a professional archeologist or geologist because this means your experience and observations are pure and not biased. I hope you understand my meaning. Thanks for a wonderful experience. ❤
I’ve been watching your videos about 8 months. I enjoyed every show. So I just subscribed and this is my first comment. 👍 I feel like I’m there with you hiking, exploring, and finding real history, fascinating. You’re a great host. Easy to hang with. Love the canyons, terrain, the beauty of it all. Yes, great videos. Thank you. Latter
Great video as always! I like the idea that the small circular depressions were for mounting sticks to create a barrier - possibly even a storage space with the depressions all around the rock. Thanks for the adventure!
If it became a woven structural barrier I wonder if they made baskets to hang from the structure as well. Maybe woven from the bark and smaller branches of the wood used for the structure.
I think the zigzag might be a simple calendar to mark days and maybe moons cycles or both with the ups and downs. very cool you are documenting these things and that is very important.
That "8" was clearly the Japanese kanji for "day." Obviously, the Ancient Pueblans were a long lost group of Japanese tourists... Seriously, that was a perfectly intact little "ruin" you found there at the 11:15 mark. The floor doesn't look very flat inside though. That honeycomb pattern on the ceiling outside the structure probably came from water dripping down? Your videos are always joyous adventures for us too!
The first structure was probably a granary. Holding corn or other grains. The little cupules on the boulder were probably a communal food making area using the cupules as grinders. Look for rocks used as grinding stones/pestles. The cupules were fairly small so maybe it wasn't used for that long or maybe just for ceremonial use. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for doing these videos. I used to love exploring and using my imagination to wonder what it was like in these types of areas. Unfortunately I'm not physically able to keep exploring and using new technologies like drones to "get closer", so thank you for sharing your experiences and enthusiasm!
Most of the paints for want of a better term, would be natural oxides. Yellow thru red with white often being a clay. Fire has been used for millennia for cracking/tunneling in rocks with some cold water to speed up the process. Enjoy ur videos from downunder.
If I were a bettin man, I'mma thinkin the "divets" in the sand stone were where the vertical posts of a meat drying rack would anchor on top of the rock. Kokopelli is the flute player.
I think the holes might have been used as leverage points to stretch and dress animal hides. They have to be smoked, washed and stretched a few times to make them soft. That stone would make a good work surface to scrape a hide. Just a guess though.
I've got a piece of petrified wood that I found in Louisiana. By far the coolest piece I've found, it's about 8 inches long but comes to a point at one end where you can clearly see tool and axe marks, the 2nd coolest piece would be my petrified acorn, complete with top cap and still has the "nipple" on the end
That was a fun adventure. The site poses many questions for instance, why the carved holes in the top of the boulder? It might have been for a small animal enclosure made of wood. Cheers.
I had never heard of Kokopelli, so I went to Wiki for more information and was surprised by all the stuff I learned. The German and the English Wiki articles vary in content; the German one dealing with the origin of this character and his multiple roles in religion and life more in detail. Thanks for pointing out this interesting flute player to me who could be a deity of fertility or a wandering news breaker, and thanks to Trek Planner for taking me to places which I'll never see in real life!
6:25 that zig zag indicates an earthquake hence the boulder laying there after the earthquake and the drawing depicting what caused it. The earth moving in waves like that.
Chaco canyon was a trading area at one time when the people who farmed etc. as it grew bigger people even from meso America : the Aztec , Mayan peoples were trading in the area but their aggressive form of religion influenced the populace over time. There was cannibalism. The original people after awhile , the ones who didn't want to have anything to do with this were frightened to death. They ran to the cliffs making these dwellings so as to hide and camouflage themselves. Great photography!
I think the holes in the rock are for putting thick branches in and then clamping them against the top rock, then weaving twigs through them and covering them with mortar, kind of watel and darp idea
@@tedpreston4155 Here in Europe it is called darp but it is the same in Germany you see the same overhanging rocks with holes in the bottom rock where sticks were clamped between them and a wickerwork in between finished with clay and sometimes horse manure or finely chopped straw or reed. through it
I've run into places like this on my travels and often felt they were used as shelters and directions for travelers, as the markings often looked a lot like the landscape. Much like today's rest stops along a freeway, perhaps. These spaces differ from granaries or dwellings, and sometimes I'd find a hunting blind nearby. Super cool stuff and your work helps me miss the desert southwest a little less, after moving to the pacific northwest. :)
Jeff mentioned that he's seen corn cobs used as parts of construction mortar in structures created by Ancestral Puebloan peoples..... please keep in mind, the corn grown by these ancient Americans was much smaller than the corn we produce today..... the ancient corn cobs would have been half to two/thirds the size of modern corn.
Jeff, that cave you're exploring at around 6 minutes seems to be a sacred space. The image of the flute player makes me curious about the acoustics of that cave, especially if Native American flutes are played there. Also, the cup holes on the boulder could have been filled with oil and wicks to make candles to burn during ceremonies.
So fun watching you do this. I've just moved to Arizona and I'm going to start hiking. I love the desert, thank you for these. Because I'm going to stick to the trails!! Lmao!! Seriously, maybe I'll get to go adventuring one day. Can't lie tho...Happy just watching you doing the hard parts. 😂🎉🍻
I always look forward to your videos! I used to camp and hike and fish, but I am now disabled and pretty much home bound. I get such joy and a thrill seeing the amazing finds and beautiful landscapes. Every so often I save screenshots to do painting with. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures!
So true. My exploring and climbing are done through his eyes. Thank you for your efforts. Mike
If I could get 1/10th the love of Jeff from viewers of my videos, I might feel like I'm doing something good. But I'm old. And bald. And missing teeth. Sigh...
All these ruins are testament to the resiliency of these ancient peoples.
Thanks for taking us there.
I notice your audio is great when the camera is facing you, however when you point it away your voice is muted. Maybe need a lapel Mike.
Thx
With all the crazy stuff going on right now. I need your videos. Thank you very much.
Me too.
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They were growing corn, so weather must have been much different when they survive there.
They do have earthquake that area. Explains rock fall.
I think you might be right about the hole in the bolder... that was my first consideration as well... The holes acted as sink holes for branches to create what ever soft organic material woven between the frame work to provide breathable solution for enclosure.
As always Jeff amazing. Love hiking with you. Thanks. 😊
Thank you for being real.
Exactly the reason it is one of my favorite channels ❤
I really enjoy your videos. Im 74 now and cant explore anymore but i did all my life. I grew up here in Arizona and explored alot of these sites. Thanks for bringing me along
Last time I was hunting ruins in Utah, we met three other explorers, a strenuous 2 mile hike away from the trailhead. All three of the other explorers were over 80! (and all three in better physical shape than the average forty-year-old American! )
I hope I'll still be exploring at that age, but I'm glad people like Jeff will give me an opportunity to keep discovering new places even when I can't get there myself anymore!
73 here in CO. Health issues now but all my life climbing mtns, back packing, and more. Enjoy these vids.
What an amazing adventure! Thanks for doing this for those of us who can't. And your enthusiasm and joy come through the camera!💞💫
At 5:34 Not my content here, but cupules are very interesting. Some have a red ochre or ground hematite base color, signifying girls' coming-of-age ceremony. In Native American culture, "cupules" refer to small, rounded depressions carved into rocks, often considered a type of petroglyph, which are believed to have been created for ceremonial purposes related to fertility, rainmaking, or other spiritual practices, depending on the tribe and region, with the specific meaning often open to interpretation due to lack of detailed historical records.
Key points about cupules in Native American culture:
Appearance:
Cupules are small, bowl-shaped depressions pecked or pounded into rock surfaces, resembling a rounded indentation.
Symbolic associations:
Many scholars link cupules to fertility symbols, potentially representing the female form due to their shape.
Ritualistic use:
Some theories suggest that the rock powder created while making cupules might have been used in fertility rituals.
Regional variations:
The meaning and interpretation of cupules can vary depending on the specific Native American tribe and geographic location.
Other potential meanings:
Some researchers speculate that cupules could also be associated with rainmaking rituals or other ceremonial practices based on local beliefs.
This is the kind of information that make me come back for more. Seeing things is way cool but the answers to the “whys or what does it mean or how” is the whole purpose I watch. thank you TheDesertWalker for filling my knowledge to the top today!
Are you sure it’s just not a place for standing up branches in a place to stay secure???
@o9brian thats what I think too. The divits are evenly spaced, and it makes sense.
Very cool content, Mr. Johnson. I look forward to your posts each week.
Chinking as a term is was certainly used in the Eastern US several centuries ago, typically used tu describe materials, often mud, inserted between logs in log cabins, but perhaps in other situations also.
I think you could say chinking is pretty much world wide; any place that was letting the air/cold in would get something stuffed in it immediately.
Amazing video, as always. Longtime watcher and first-time commenter.
LOL! It was so frustrating to watch this video because when you were talking about the carved indentations on that sandstone platform, I kept wanting you to pan up to see if there were corresponding indentations on the ceiling. I was yelling at the screen way before you even began postulating about it later. Thankfully, @07:18 rolled around, and for a couple of seconds, you see very deliberate indentations in the ceiling.
What's *really* interesting is that the structure below the platform at @06:30 looks a lot like a large bread baking oven or pottery kiln. There looks to be quite a bit of burned material on the bottom of the pit, so I think my hypothesis is supported.
My second and unsupported hypothesis is that whatever was draped off the wooden poles braced in those platform/ceiling indentations was to shield the heat emanating from the oven/kiln. How's that for a run-on sentence? 😂
Thoughts?
P.S. Can you call me from the field so I can direct your camera shots, too? LOL!! 😂😂😂😂
Ha ha ha to the PS. Loved it.
Classic Trek Planner. Thank you!
I always love making coffee and sipping to your new episodes. Love your stuff
Loving your videos, very interesting. We're watching them from the U.K..
Joy to Jeff and his adventures keep on TREKEN👍😊🙏>>>💚
Enjoy your videos very much. Thank you!
Incredible structure. Its so well preserved, one of the best that I have seen. Thanks for sharing.
Pretty cool, Jeff. Good eye. I love the way you only take pictures and only leave footprints.
When you come to a structure it would be nice if you pointed your camera out towards the landscape that these people would be looking at from their door.. 😊
( Huge Smile ) You make an old gal feel like a kid, scrambling , out exploring and making it so much fun, and really makes you think about people who were here before us. The stone work on that structure is tight! Yes they call it “Chinking” also when building Log Cabins.
Side Note: I grew up in England, and we buried some items in our back yard, for someone to find in a few thousand years. Hihi.
Im so happy to go exploring with you...thank you trek planner 👍💯
My best guess would be that you’re correct about the wood in the divots created in the stone, but I would suggest that it is to protect them from many predators. I’m going to guess that they created some sort of cage so that everyone could sleep and someone didn’t have to stand guard all night.
That was amazing Jeff, love your adventures 😊
Such an interesting place. What do you think made the honeycomb roof over the one ruin? Thank you for teaching all of us to respect the ruins! Love your treks!
I wondered that too. Possibly birds making mud nests?
It looked to me like that could be ancient gas escaping the mud. Or maybe it was underwater in the past and it's a coral fossil, which is what I thought first. Fascinating and fun stuff! So cool 🥰 😎🙌🏼🏆
Thank youuu!!🙏🏻🥳
Wind and rain erosion
I love watching your videos. The canyons are awesome to see. It's like walking in the Tennessee mountains here. It's amazing to just see nature and wonder about how people lived 100's of years ago. It's so fascinating and beautiful! Thank you 😊
Thanks!
Here’s another idea for the carved holes: the boulder may have been an alter of sorts and they may have filled those depressions with fat and lit them like candles.
Your adventures are a breath of fresh air. This one was extra special with intact architecture as well as pictographs. And the scenery was beautiful! A welcome distraction from all the craziness in our current world.
That's a beautiful structure, visually very pleasing. Hard to imagine how much work went into this little piece of perfection.
Very cool
Buddy, use UV flashlight next time on these paintings, and you will be stunned!
DJI drones are getting LIDAR next year. We should buy him one.
Thank you for taking me along on your explorations. You allow so many of us to see things we would never otherwise ever see. I look forward to seeing where you will take us next.
Wow, that was very well preserved. Glad to be able to see it. Thanks
Some of the Wood Structure still standing and some nice Rock Art - and an amazing complete Ruin - wow indeed ! A very Enjoyable Adventure - keep it coming ! Many Cheers from Australia !
Cheers too from Australia. There’s lots of us who watch Jeff 😊
I'm thinking the holes in the rocks are for structure. Very doggone interesting!
Without seeing more of the area, It's hard for me to be sure, but that really looks like a dried up spring cistern. I also think you may be right about those divots in that boulder, too. They were likely used to friction fit logs to build a mud wall.
A lot of these sites were built around springs and were abandoned when the spring stopped being reliable, based on what I've been able to figure examining some 300 sites.
This site is Hobbit like to me. I'd live there, 1000 years ago!
Thanks another awesome adventure. I appreciate you!
I think the flute player is actually a downward facing praying mantis? (9:32) Enjoy your videos!
That's what it looked like to me too!
Awesome episode! So grateful to you for sharing these adventures!
My family loves your videos. We always learn so much & appreciate your care of the land & artifacts. We get to adventure vicariously through you & your enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you so much for your content.
I totally agree 😊!
Hi Jeff, As an Australian the first pictograph was definitely a KANGAROO. Who knew!!. Anyway excellent videos as usual, thankyou.
I absolutely love your channel and appreciate all the time and effort you put into it. I also appreciate that you are not a professional archeologist or geologist because this means your experience and observations are pure and not biased. I hope you understand my meaning. Thanks for a wonderful experience. ❤
Your joy and enthusiasm definitely come through the camera 📷 😊 Thank you for another uplifting adventure!
I find these videos of ancient cliff dwellings very fascinating. Please continue making them!
Your joy is infectious. I thought the same about the holes as you suggested. Keep up the excellent work.
Thanks! Pretty neat stuff, just hope there are no family members of the unknown builders under that rock that fell.
I’ve been watching your videos about 8 months. I enjoyed every show. So I just subscribed and this is my first comment. 👍 I feel like I’m there with you hiking, exploring, and finding real history, fascinating. You’re a great host. Easy to hang with.
Love the canyons, terrain, the beauty of it all.
Yes, great videos. Thank you.
Latter
Great video as always! I like the idea that the small circular depressions were for mounting sticks to create a barrier - possibly even a storage space with the depressions all around the rock. Thanks for the adventure!
If it became a woven structural barrier I wonder if they made baskets to hang from the structure as well. Maybe woven from the bark and smaller branches of the wood used for the structure.
Thank you for taking us with you. It was really cool. I would never be able to see these things with out you guys dong these video's . ❤
This was wonderful as usual I love learning about the ancient Indians that's our heritage great job as usual thank you
I think the zigzag might be a simple calendar to mark days and maybe moons cycles or both with the ups and downs.
very cool you are documenting these things and that is very important.
I'm thinking moon cycles. There are 14 marks before the line changes direction, with the up or down being New Moon or Full Moon.
The "Flute player" is named Kokopelli. So cool that you found an original!!!
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The N O then the bright red figures. Did someone enhance the painted red figures?
That "8" was clearly the Japanese kanji for "day." Obviously, the Ancient Pueblans were a long lost group of Japanese tourists... Seriously, that was a perfectly intact little "ruin" you found there at the 11:15 mark. The floor doesn't look very flat inside though. That honeycomb pattern on the ceiling outside the structure probably came from water dripping down? Your videos are always joyous adventures for us too!
This was a really good adventure! I'm no expert, but I think you may have discovered an ancient artist colony!
Thank you so much for sharing. Glad to know you'll still be doing this when youre 200
At 20:15 i keep seeing a Kokopelli off your right shoulder or on the left of my screen.
The first structure was probably a granary. Holding corn or other grains. The little cupules on the boulder were probably a communal food making area using the cupules as grinders. Look for rocks used as grinding stones/pestles. The cupules were fairly small so maybe it wasn't used for that long or maybe just for ceremonial use. Keep up the great work.
I love your channel
Thanks for doing these videos. I used to love exploring and using my imagination to wonder what it was like in these types of areas. Unfortunately I'm not physically able to keep exploring and using new technologies like drones to "get closer", so thank you for sharing your experiences and enthusiasm!
Most of the paints for want of a better term, would be natural oxides. Yellow thru red with white often being a clay. Fire has been used for millennia for cracking/tunneling in rocks with some cold water to speed up the process. Enjoy ur videos from downunder.
If I were a bettin man, I'mma thinkin the "divets" in the sand stone were where the vertical posts of a meat drying rack would anchor on top of the rock.
Kokopelli is the flute player.
Great find man. Maybe it was a quarry?
14:41 it looks like the wall was built in a way that mimics the lines of the natural wall behind it.
Very nice, thanx for sharing.
I think the holes might have been used as leverage points to stretch and dress animal hides.
They have to be smoked, washed and stretched a few times to make them soft. That stone would make a good work surface to scrape a hide.
Just a guess though.
We have enjoyed so many. This one did not disappoint. Thank you Jeff. My daughter and I really enjoy your work.
Thank you for taking us along on your exploratory adventures. 🙏
I really enjoy your adventures. Health issues keep me close to home these days. Really appreciate being taken along 🫶🏻
Well done my friend 😎⭐️👍🤩
I've got a piece of petrified wood that I found in Louisiana. By far the coolest piece I've found, it's about 8 inches long but comes to a point at one end where you can clearly see tool and axe marks, the 2nd coolest piece would be my petrified acorn, complete with top cap and still has the "nipple" on the end
Those both sound incredible. The would definitely be prized to me.
Another great trip. Always enjoy your discoveries. We never know what to expect.👍
We're towards the end of the video, oh my God the finger marks! That building is absolutely amazing! I love to go for a walk with you!
That was a fun adventure. The site poses many questions for instance, why the carved holes in the top of the boulder? It might have been for a small animal enclosure made of wood. Cheers.
The zig zag pictograph was really cool.
The flute player is a Kokopelli. He went from community to community sharing news.
I had never heard of Kokopelli, so I went to Wiki for more information and was surprised by all the stuff I learned. The German and the English Wiki articles vary in content; the German one dealing with the origin of this character and his multiple roles in religion and life more in detail.
Thanks for pointing out this interesting flute player to me who could be a deity of fertility or a wandering news breaker, and thanks to Trek Planner for taking me to places which I'll never see in real life!
A great first trek with you today. Enjoyed it greatly.
Thanks for taking us with you!
Kokopelli!!! Wow that is a real find!
I agree with you that possibly the holes on the top of the boulder could be footings for poles to provide structure.
Those zig zags drawing looks like mountains senery ..., that's the way I wud draw them as a kid .I LOVE THESE VIDEO!!! THANX FOR SHARING
Enjoyinging your find, exploration, and commentary.
Watching from Venice Louisiana… 😮
Thanks for all your efforts in makings these incredible adventures into what remains of our ancient kin.
Great video! And your joy absolutely comes through!
6:25 that zig zag indicates an earthquake hence the boulder laying there after the earthquake and the drawing depicting what caused it. The earth moving in waves like that.
I think I just came up with that theory but it’s spot on, eh
Fantastic adventure!
Chaco canyon was a trading area at one time when the people who farmed etc. as it grew bigger people even from meso America : the Aztec , Mayan peoples were trading in the area but their aggressive form of religion influenced the populace over time. There was cannibalism. The original people after awhile , the ones who didn't want to have anything to do with this were frightened to death. They ran to the cliffs making these dwellings so as to hide and camouflage themselves. Great photography!
I think the holes in the rock are for putting thick branches in and then clamping them against the top rock, then weaving twigs through them and covering them with mortar, kind of watel and darp idea
Wattle and daub? That's what I was thinking too!
@@tedpreston4155
Here in Europe it is called darp but it is the same in Germany you see the same overhanging rocks with holes in the bottom rock where sticks were clamped between them and a wickerwork in between finished with clay and sometimes horse manure or finely chopped straw or reed. through it
I've run into places like this on my travels and often felt they were used as shelters and directions for travelers, as the markings often looked a lot like the landscape. Much like today's rest stops along a freeway, perhaps. These spaces differ from granaries or dwellings, and sometimes I'd find a hunting blind nearby. Super cool stuff and your work helps me miss the desert southwest a little less, after moving to the pacific northwest. :)
I'm wondering what the rock dimpling @11:36?
That pictograph looks like a person with a cowboy hat or missionary hat on. Maybe a dog also??
Thanks for the great hike!
Really like your work. Well done. Ya, the joy comes through for me anyway. Nice editing.... . . . .
I'm pretty sure you were right about the cups in the boulder. I'm sure they were holding some wood poles.
Jeff mentioned that he's seen corn cobs used as parts of construction mortar in structures created by Ancestral Puebloan peoples..... please keep in mind, the corn grown by these ancient Americans was much smaller than the corn we produce today..... the ancient corn cobs would have been half to two/thirds the size of modern corn.
Exciting you’re a great researcher and guide! What interesting adventures! 🙏🏼❤️
Good video. Thank you sir 😎👍
Thanks Jeff, another awesome adventure ❤😊
I think those holes are for poking sticks into to be the initial skeletal structures for walls or ceiling.
Jeff, that cave you're exploring at around 6 minutes seems to be a sacred space. The image of the flute player makes me curious about the acoustics of that cave, especially if Native American flutes are played there. Also, the cup holes on the boulder could have been filled with oil and wicks to make candles to burn during ceremonies.
So fun watching you do this. I've just moved to Arizona and I'm going to start hiking. I love the desert, thank you for these. Because I'm going to stick to the trails!! Lmao!! Seriously, maybe I'll get to go adventuring one day. Can't lie tho...Happy just watching you doing the hard parts.
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