What I Found On Top Of This Boulder Was AMAZING!!
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- Опубликовано: 8 дек 2023
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NOTE: I do not claim to be an expert on anthropology, geology, or archaeology. I am just a hiker who loves to explore and see new things especially the ancient history that is all around us. This is what my channel is about. I hope you stick around and explore with me!
I do not give out locations to the places in my videos. I take seriously the responsibility to protect and respect these ancient places. If you do find/visit one of these locations, please visit respectfully. Do not take any artifacts or relics. Do not climb on ruins or dig or disturb the ground. I try my best to hide noticeable landmarks, mountains, and canyons in my videos.
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I for one appreciate all your time and efforts that you put into these thoughtful and well made videos! I’m so glad you had the drone, at least we all were still able to get a glimpse of history of the people who so long ago, lived in these areas! Having lived in Nevada for 20 plus years, I am well aware of the extreme heat, and cold temps that the desert can be. It just boggles my mind how these people could live in these conditions! Thank you again….
*Incredible. New camera? I always assumed your local ancestral pueblan sites had been preserved by very hot, very dry conditions and was astonished to see snow on the ground. I wonder if they filled with snow/melted in a cycle that finally expanded the ice inside the water-filled vessel and broke it in such a radial pattern.*
Right?? The desert is such an extreme place! I always wonder what life would have been like for them. Thank you for watching!
People have been travelling through these places for a long, long time, but there's no guarantee some of them weren't "built" more recently. Someone might find such places to be ideal for avoiding the occasional wild animal or even other people whilst en route to other places. Even in the 19th and 20th centuries. Of course, that might not preclude much older occupation, but it's unwise to assume anything you find out there is automatically "ancient". 🙂
@@TheTrekPlanner hey, do you ever use the USGS site and the LiDAR that’s on it To help find structures
Your respect for the sites you visit and their artifacts is admirable. Thank you
Thank you! 🙂
@@TheTrekPlanner I don't think they climbed on top to build RUINS.........
In general you don't build ruins......🙃🤔🤣🤣🤣
I'm still chuckling, thanks I needed that.
BTW, corregated pots require an extra measure of skill and talent...and patience... to build, there aren't many potters who can do them well. They were extremely practical as cooking pots, the texture helped distribute the heat from the fire more evenly and resisted cracking from thermal shock. If a guy is brewing an evening stew in a lonely lookout post, that's a good pot to have.
Thank you so much for your videos. As a quadriplegic I miss the days where I'd go spelunking, climb cliffs and explore any where possible. Watching your videos gives my Spirit a lift and puts a smile on my face.
Man that really means a lot to me. Thank you so much for sharing that!!
-Jeff
Love the contrast between the snow and landscape
Love the journey you take us on. I'm in the deep South so seeing the different landscape and the ruins is a treat. Thanks.
Hello from the southern UK. Many thanks for your wonderful videos - am one of those who can no longer travel so feel doubly grateful for all your research and physical effort to bring ancient history to us that we will never get to see in person. Have learnt so much from you and your wonderful drone filming. A truly uplifting gift - thank you so much. A very Merry Christmas to you and your lovely family! 🎅🏻🎄🎁
Thank you for watching and for your kind words! And Merry Christmas to you and your family as well! 🙂I am always learning more and more about these places and the people who lived there! Thanks for joining with me on these adventures!
Check Land of Chem for some deep history concerning UK megalithic structures. We all got burned paying for college history lectures.
This is quite remarkable! I have also never seen such a significant assemblage of pieces from what looks to be the same pot. Well done for finding this, and thank you for sharing it!
That was my favorite part! Thanks for watching! 🙂
@@TheTrekPlanner If only we could glue it back together! :(
Great adventure, look forward to the next!
What an awesome channel!
Keep moving forward, we love your discoveries.
I live in Western Australia so it's nice to see your amazing country upclose and great detail.
The pottery made the entire video ! someone expended some serious time and energy building on that rock
That’s a pretty special spot Jeff. It would have been a safe spot to stay the night. I could only imagine the amount of wild predators they had to deal with on a daily basis.
I'm guessing that could be the top reason they'd build on those towers. Nothing can get to you from up there if you pull up the ladder with you!
If by predators you mean other humans, then yes. I live in this area and humans is the only reason to go to such extremes. You are looking at the equivalent of European castles and/or strongholds.
Hello from the Netherlands! I will never be able to travel and see these fabulous places myself. Thank you so much for taking me along! ❤🇳🇱
Thank you, thank you. You got to touch something that was worked by another human. You get a piece of that spirit to have, especially since you are so respectful, and put it back.
Also the land looked waaaay different 100s-1000s of years ago. That was probably easily accessible in the past. As you can see, the heavy erosion around and from the Hoodoo itself. Oh, and that's what that shape is called. A Hoodoo.
Stay safe and another great video. ❤❤
Wow! Those pot shards were amazing. Thank you for sharing your adventures with those of us who can no longer hike. It frees our spirit to connect with these beautiful places. For some reason, I didn't think it snowed in the desert. Well, that's why I watch you, to learn!
That's a really cool find. Thanks for taking us on your adventures, I'm always looking forward to your next video. God bless from Texas.
Thank you for taking us on your journey.. I love walking, hiking, seeking adventures, but haven't been able to for a while.. seeing ancient ruin sure gets my blood pumping..
AGREEE!!!! REALLY COOL!!!!!!!!!!!! THX for taking us along
This was another "wow" video. The pieces of the pottery jug were so interesting to see! That would have been a very small area to spend much time in so maybe it was just a rock shelter for 2 or 3 hunters, to help protect them from the wind and deep cold that the desert can provide. Those people had to have been so physically and mentally strong to survive and raise families in that harsh environment! Great video!! Thank you for all you do to show us what you are seeing. You are appreciated!! ❤
To me you are the spiritual successor of CF Apps - honoring the history of native American culture when so many ignore it. Excellent.
That was a cool video! I love you investigation adventures and the fact that you do use a drone instead of trying to climb fragile places like that ruin on top of that rock. You are always so respectful of these sites and the artifacts that you find. Great photography and story editing!
I used to love hiking, but now i cant get away like that, so thank you for taking us along!
Thank you for taking us along. The drone is a wonderful view.
Not to the Russians.
Thank you for another exciting adventure. My first husband and I went across country from Indiana to California. On the way we hiked the painted desert and stopped at Indian ruins off the beaten path. Best experience ever! You go to places I’d love to go, but I live in New York. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us, your efforts are so appreciated 😘 much love🥰
I live in Maine. As you know, we don't have anything close to the amount of and condition of artifacts in the northeast like there are in the SW. It's shame that all I find when I'm hiking is old farm foundations and stone walls. Those are cool, too, but in the scheme of things very modern, even if it's from the colonials. If you can ever get to southern NH, Sally, go check out America's Stonehenge. If you've never heard of it, RUclips has a lot about it!. Been there a half dozen times.
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland thanks for the info Cole, I have heard of it, but I haven’t been there.
good work❤
Thank You Jeff, to me it is a wondrous place, no matter what those people used it for. The structure of the platform is truly stunning, and the structure on top is small enough to allow the people living there to have an outdoor space. The potsherds, and wooden remnants add a really special touch to that location. I am glad you got to see it and share it with all of us. Plus for you personally, and all of us in your viewing audience got to enjoy that beautiful wintery landscape. Right now I am finishing up a Photoshop project that takes up 70 hours a week of my time, so I have not been outside for days. It's nice to see what happening in your neck of the woods from Scottsdale, AZ. Take Care Jeff, You're Doing Great Work, Kudos.
It's hard enough to imagine, how they put those stones up there to build a structure, but how did they get that big stone on top of the column in the first place? (lol)
They rolled it on top of a mud geyser, and then waited. 😉
The large stone has probably been there for hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of years. The softer earth beneath it eroded away over the years. It probably looked pretty much the same as today when the rocks were placed on top. The people who put them there would have had to climb up, with a ladder, another human, whatever.
I imagine they stored food up there and used a ladder to get to it. 😊
Thanks so much for sharing your adventures. I always look forward to your videos!
Thanks for sharing your trek with us. Your drone is a wonderful way to go places that you (we) would otherwise not be able to explore. I'm not a shut-in, but I am 70, so don't get out to explore as often as I did in my youth. I enjoy your enthusiasm, your code of ethics in leaving no trace and your respect for the people of worlds past. Looking forward to many more of your adventures. Thank you, for bringing us along, this was a very nice find, may you be well, have good karma and continue to enjoy your wonderful treks.
It means a lot you spent the time to comment! so, thank you! The drone has been a game changer. It's sometimes awkward to pack, but I always make sure to bring it!
Another favourite! You are always good at putting things back :-) You have such respect for these ancient dwellings and artifacts. Thank you for taking us with you :-) From a British Gal, currently living in America.
I used to live in New Mexico and regret moving away. I really do enjoy your videos and always look forward to them. Thanks
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Thank you for your content. Since I can't be out west right now, I look forward to your videos. And I will add thank you for being as responsible and respectful as you are with the sites you come across.
Love your videos! That was amazing!! And almost an entire pot!! Thank you for taking us with you on your adventures. Much love from Texas!!❤
The sites you find are amazing, the snowy landscape is beautiful ❤❤❤
I throughly enjoy your videos. You go places I would never go. They make me feel adventurous. Thanks.
I'm from the UK and I've been watching your videos for a while. I'm pretty much housebound these days due to disability, so chalk me up as another person who experiences extreme feelings of freedom when watching your videos. Your passion and respect for the sites your visit is admirable and fuels my own passion for your videos. Thanks for sharing!
I had the pleasure and joy to travel across Arizona and New Mexico a few years ago on a work trip and was amazed at the stunning landscape. So vast, tranquil and timeless. Thank you for sharing your adventures. Devon England.
As a long-term Arizona Outback resident and life-long backcountry solo explorer, I enjoy your videos very much. But I do worry about your safety. Perhaps sometime you could share what you take with you in the way of self-rescue equipment?
Thanks for taking us with you on your adventure.
Great find, Jeff! One reason that pot stayed so well in situ, it didn't have cows, deer etc running over it for hundreds of years, not to mention pesky humans. Amazing little tower lookout and campspot for the natives. I imagine they had hauled a log up to it to aid in access.
Jeff, I enjoy your videos immensely. I am using your travels to determine the range of stone casts of footprints. I live in the boot heel of NM and have found these "footprints" from Silver City to Gila- also, at every rock hunter site I have been to in Eastern AZ. There were several of these in your video that had fallen from the ruin on top of the boulder. I see fewer in Utah, just curious where this last video was made. Keep up the good/ rewarding work!
Always a pleasure. And no rattlesnakes, this time of year!!
Another fantastic video, I love these little adventures, thanks.
The snow makes everything so much more beautiful!!
I look forward to every new episode. When I was a kid I spent a lot of time in the cuyamaca mountains of Cal looking for arrowheads & pottery shards. You take me back to those days in the 70's. People of the past need to be remembered and your videos help us remember. Thk u.
Anything precious. Supplies or family. Help stop anyone from taking them. Thanks again 🏴👍
I think that maybe they built these structures in these locations to make it difficult for wild animals to access their long term food storage items. That would explain why there are always a lot of remnants from pots/containers - these likely held food and were sealed. The structures would be to keep the elements off the pots/containers and the location would keep animals ( maybe even mice ) from reaching it.
Blows my mind every time.. Imagining these people. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks again Jeff! Your productions have become a part of my Saturday morning coffee! Once again, I'm baffled why so many calories would be expended creating structures in such precarious locations. And I realize the potshards can help date a site, but how much different would these structures look if they were two or three thousand years old? Wonder if a dendrochronologist could help age these sites?
Maybe the idea that it looks like a difficult to access point which could help in terms of protection because nothing could really get to you
Or perhaps for a good vantage point? I agree tho a very strange place
i appreciate all you do to show us this historical evidence of our ancestors.
That was amazing. First it looked like someone picked up a boulder from another place and put it on top. Then the wood and pottery proved there use to be a structure. The piece you picked up looked more like a bone to me. Thanks for a fun adventure.
Seeing the pot shards is amazing! Thank you for the trip!
Another masterpiece Jeffrey!! Thank you🎉🎉
Great way to start off my Saturday! Thanks for sharing
I am a bit of a shut in due to health and these videos are very much enjoyed. Thank you for the respect you show and the adventures you take.
Another fascinating video. Thank you for taking us along.
Thank you for taking us along with you. Your videos are always interesting.
Thanks for the trip. Your trips are amazing. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Just Fascinating and Beautiful! Thank u for taking us along! Be Safe !
So amazing! I love exploring vicariously with you. Thanks, Jeff. 💜
I really enjoy your videos, and for someone who lives in the far south eastern tip of Australia I still find the remoteness of your locations fascinating. Would it be possible to more accurately date some of the pottery fragments you come across, as I'm sure that would interest all of us. Now I'm probably wrong about this, but at the 3.44 mark in this video, the boulder on top of the tower looks to be a different type of rock, and if so, because of it's huge size, how did it get there ? I admire your skills with the drone as well.
Thank you for your video, and taking us along with you 🙂
Concerning the broken pottery...Knowing what they used that type of pottery for, storage or drinking could possibly tell us what the ruin was used for. We are always wondering that. Then we might be able to come to a possible conclusion about what those mushroom type ruins were used for. Maybe in another video you could share that. They looked like water vessels to me, but I don't know. Thanks! Fascinating stuff. This is the rare time that I think that possibly if you could have collected all of those pieces and glued them back together (even with missing pieces) a local museum that doesn't have access to those special type pieces might have appreciated the effort. Maybe that would be braking the law. Here in California, if an archeologist doesn't pick it up then it is breaking the law. Sometimes, I guess they would rather have it completely destroyed.
@@pampoovey3281 Sure...they aren't required to pick it up but unless there is a professional excavation being carried out with professional archeologists, it is illegal in the state of California to pick up anything historical from indigenous people unless it is on private property, not even a broken arrow head. They, the powers that be, don't even want you moving the object if you find something. There is an old guy right now in Northern California that is in big trouble because he use to walk Lake Oroville, for 20 years and had a substantial collection...
TYSM for taking us along!
Amazing, Jeff! I’m so glad you have the time, gumption and desire to drive all the way out there, have an adventure, film what you find and present your discovery to the rest of us. Thank you for all the time and money spent bringing us many things most of us will probably never have the opportunity to see in person. Awesome!
Thanks so much. These videos you make are probably the only, and best possible, records of these obscure locations. Good work!
Thanks for another great video. Your pleasant demeanor makes them even better.
Thank you so much for what you do! It's so informative and relaxing. x
Another great adventure , keep up the great work !!!
By far, I think that's the most amazing, untouched find you've ever shown. I also appreciate your efforts in not disturbing the site. Well done!
Thanks for taking us along .
Woohoo ! Just so enjoyable , thanks for getting us out and connecting with the people from the past 💥👍
Really enjoy your adventures recovering from rotator surgery and it helps keep me from going stir crazy thank you so very much 😎
Great adventures. Thanks for Sharing.
Sometimes pottery is broken for ritual reasons. It is possible that it could have been some sort of ritual site.
Man, you need a telescoping ladder in the worst way! Or a ladder-pole, though they take some practice to get good at using. Might save your life out there, though, and keep you from getting stuck on a ledge one day. Great video! The broken pot looked like possibly an olla, a water-jar? Hard to say, but the curvature points towards something large. I wonder if it was accidentally broken or deliberately destroyed on the destruction of the site? Just a thought. Happy travels to you, and please be careful!
Great video again. us wheelchair people just love your adventures.
Thank you for being my legs to places i would never get to journey too in my lifetime. I would love to reassemble the pot as much as possible and place it right back where it was but some may frown on that.
Keep posting! We love it!
Appreciate your taking us along- almost as good as being there!
Your drone view seemed to show where two large rocks; lying at the base of the tower ; had calved off of it sometime in the past. Keep on adventuring ; I'll keep on watching.
I loved the NEW AGE MUSIC as it fit perfectly with the drone footage..I can’t even image how the ancient people were able to get on top of that rock but I guess a tall ladder was constructed for the first person to go up..The snow made it more picturesque and your videos are just as powerful as ARIZONA HIGWAYS even though you may still be in Utah..
Thank you for sharing your adventures with us 💕🙏🏻🫶👏🏻
That certainly is a beautiful canyon. Those archaeological sites are definitely old. I like the way you respect all of the ruins you find. Thank you for showing us all of these ancient places. It would be very cool to be there in person but at least I can see them through your videos. It has to be awesome to be there.
Safety from predators is one good reason, as well as raiders at night.
Thank you for getting out there for those of us that can’t.
Thanks for another interesting find!! Stay safe!
Another amazing find and adventure. Thank you!
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Top stuff, keep up the good work mate, North East England x
This was one of my favorite videos you’ve made. Thank you for all the hard work and research.
love the drone shots! and the pottery sightings
Thank you for posting these videos!
This site looks like you may have had the first eyes on it since it was abandoned. It took my breath away. Thank you.
Hey, Jeff, what you have to remember is that landscapes change over time due to weather, wind, climate change, etc. It might not have been that high of the surrounding terrain. It could have been a lush green landscape with rivers and wildlife to hunt and eat. Maybe not but remember to take that into consideration. And sorry, but you misspoke near the beginning - people wouldn't have built 'ruins', maybe a shelter, granery, storage building but not a ruin. 🙃
I love watching your videos because you really take the time to get a good look at all the stuff you find!! I miss exploring & so enjoy going along on your adventures!
Great job Jeff! ☺
I love your respect of nature and antiquites. Thank you for the adventure. A lot must go in to the planning, filming and editing. Thank you
Thankyou for sharing.
Thank you I’m glad you have that drone! Loved it Thanks