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Ethics is just another way of saying "woke politics" there are millions of samples in museums that have yet to be tested and the bottom line is the Native American Community as a whole does not care about studying bone samples. there entire culture and continent was destroyed the only way to regain the knowledge is through archeology
I hiked sacred mountain and saw tons of pottery. One piece I saw was whitish gray with thin dark brown stripes a bit less than a CM wide. Do you think this was a trade item? If so, where do you think it was traded from. I saw some thin shards, thick shards, small shards, and big shards. It was really cool!
Visited Chaco 1972, rather negative reception by 2 park service men, but allowed to wander about. Noone else there that day. Started my deep interest in indigenous SW history which continues today. Did not know any archeological history except for Wertherill. Found this lecture positively fascinating. If only you tube existed in my youth. I'm now 80 and still learning.
@oldpuebloarchaeologycenter6470 I have a concern, are the archeologists doing the excavation sites at Chaco Canyon with the permission and collaboration of the local tribes? These are burial sites. What dialog do they have with them? Do you as an organization have a current dialog with the tribes? In as much as this Archeologist is doing research, the fact still remains it is a Western person doing this, and not a member from our society. It is difficult for me not to see it as a disenfranchisement if there isn't a collaboration and recognition to the individual tribal members involved.
@Latin-J Its convenient to declare its part of human history when it serves you and its not right to let it deteriorate and be forgotten.So about that, we are told by your society who we are and where we come from since day 1 of colonization, do you think its right? I don't agree with the Berengia theory, nor do a lot of native folk, because we know its bs. Its okay to get a hallpass of behavior to disenfranchise a group of people because of your justification? The best way to learn about these people is first honor their descendants, and give them the respect they deserve. if they want to restore it, they should be supported. The site doesn't belong to the archeologist, it belongs to the people, meaning the descendants. It isn't a tour destination, its a place of reverance and burial site. You want to talk about being a part of something, start there.
@Latin-JI think you need to understand something, to us, it is a place of reverence and the resting place of the dead. We go there to pray and give ceremony. Nobody would want their grandparents dug up at the local cemetary, so why would you think its ok to do that to us native folk? If you paid attention to the way you speak of us, its as of though your hallpass of behavior is more important than our rights as an indigenous people and as a sovereign nation. Those archeological sites are not yours to do with as you please. The best way to learn about these 'people' is to establish a dialog with their descendants and not objectify us as your society and the men in the video deemed it acceptable to do. The desendants and the tribe shoud be respectd and asked to collaborate and if they want to restore it, help to fully fund the tribe to do so and not peice meal. I am all for science but not at the cost of disenfranchisement of my people, which has gone on for far too long.
You are right! It wouldn't be okay to go dig up people's relatives...since we've been doing that worldwide...well the world sure has gotton dark. Profaning the dead has a huge penality spiritually. It opens portals because it is Abomination...what if it could be The Abomination that cause Desolation?😮If the Abyss will be opened and demons are" disembodied spirits" meaning they once had a body...but if a Fallen Angel(Archeologist& Cern)opens all their graves...yike....then all these creatures are coming outta hell for the Great Harvest to devour much flesh Revalations 13 & Daniel 4:6
Wow a lot of info there. Yet my takeaways are 1) everything in the MV sample fits within the Medieval Warm Period Bond Cycle [AD 600 to 1300] and 2) all of the dips and final abandonment correspond to Benson and Berry's Megadrought cycle.
We’re taking a look at the trees here in North Carolina at a ceremonial site. I never knew that they painted and carved on the trees, and I probably wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it. I also wouldn’t believe that they painted faces on crystals, like what you see in my avatar. The state of North Carolina is in need of a state archaeologist. All the citizens are doing the work right right now and we’re making incredible discoveries in the deep canals.
Fantastic talk! I've read all 3 of Lekson's books and I appreciate his informal style of writing and talking. It has made archaeology much more accessible to me because it doesn't include a lot of professional jargon. In both his talk and his books, it's clear that Lekson doesn't participate in the groupthink of the profession but approaches things with a fresh perspective. Given all the various roles he held throughout his career, it's impressive how approachable what he says is. It's also impressive how respectful he is of the various native american tribes he's worked with.
I believe the photo was of William Sutton, and not Whitey Bulger. Would it make more sense to average dates and seasons from individual sites and graph the information from the various sites in that way, while accounting for outliers as well?
Please stop teaching people that early people got to America via the ice passage theory. It has been completely debunked. Ice gores taken show no seeds what so ever. There was nothing to eat and nothing to burn. No food. No heat. 40 below. Skins on their feet. 1000s of miles to travel on foot with no heat. Why academia just keeps teaching this is beyond me but its obvious acsdemia does not want to question its own narrative.
I love this but I just cant believe that those footprints left out in the open for 20000 years could possibly survive the wind erosion for that length of time.
The two geographical locations most conducive to supporting early hunter-gatherer populations were the coastal regions of oceans and seas, and along major riverways. The majority of the cultures in existence today that depend, either partially or primarily on hunting and gathering for their subsistence still obtain much of their caloric intake from the rich biological resources found along the coasts and major rivers. It's only logical to presume that these same locations have been the most heavily populated areas going back hundreds of thousands of years, even before the emergence of modern humans. Being that sea level has risen roughly 400 feet since the last glacial maximum, and most if not all major river systems would have experienced repeated episodes of major or even catastrophic flooding during the melting of the ice sheets and mountain glaciers, I think it's safe to say the vast majority of the archeological evidence for early human habitation lies under hundreds of feet of water today, or was destroyed altogether by floods that were degrees of magnitude greater than any known during historic times. This leaves modern archeologists with precious few clues remaining with which they can try to piece together a view of human history before the greatest part of all that melting subsided six to eight thousand years ago. A good analogy might be trying to describe what's pictured in a 10,000 piece puzzle when you only have a few dozen scattered puzzle pieces to go by. With so little to go on it's imprudent to rule out almost any possibility. If archeologists spent more time and energy searching for earlier evidence of people in the Americas and less time and energy trying to defend their established dogmas they might be better able to answer more of the big questions.
I found a neat site. The archeology society did not give me the time of day to even look at my artifacts. And I will tell you , I found opal and jade point forms. Obsidian and quartz crystal scrapers and point forms. The old guy , a forensic anthropologist , he told me that the Indians didn't make points from obsidian here on the eastern continent. I spent a year , once a week gathering my artifacts to prove them wrong. For crying out loud !. Shell buttons , stone beads , abalone, I found a site that where surely these items were charished . Supper rare stones that have not been properly identified . It was not a smooth journey, I sadly say , in my quest to verify and confirmation as a legitimate ancient site. The styles suggest paleo to archaic, though there is obvious generational habitation, or so some of the artifacts indicate.
It would be nice if Old Pueblo Archeology would get paid from RU-vid for the ads that are shown during this educational video. In fact if RU-vid wants to make money on Old Pueblo Archeology videos then they should at least be a major source of funding for research.
my understanding is RU-vid content providers are paid if ads are run on their channels. However, it takes A LOT of views to actually make much money, $7K/ 1 mil. views was a figure I saw a couple years ago.
@@skipperson4077 you can bet your ass RU-vid makes money. I consider these videos and this type of content educational and either they share 50/50 or don't show ads at all.
Here are three sources: Ball, Eve 1970 In the Days of Victorio: Recollection of a Warm Springs Apache. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Ball, Eve, Nora Henn, and Lynda A. Sánchez 1988 Indeh: An Apache Odyssey. Revised ed. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. Sánchez, Lynda A. 2014 Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico: From the Sacred Mountain. The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina.
@@oldpuebloarchaeologycenter6470 Thank you for your presence and existence and this world, it's a pleasure to see people who enjoy apache studies, such a resourceful and resilient people, like Sweeney once mentioned! I've just started reading Mangas Coloradas again!
i am here because of Mangas Coloradas by Edwin Sweeney he was a disciple from Eve Ball and Dan Thrapp, i'm glad to discover this, it's phenomenal to see people who co-worked with her, i've seen Indeh, mentions about Thrapp and Ball books on Edwin Sweeney's books it's a pleasure to see such a literary ancestrality, thank you Linda and all involved, i didn't know about the tablets, amazing! Chiricahua, in apache, means Mountain of Turkey, i thought amazing she has saved two turkey feathers! This man Big Mouth he made relic!
Ok…. I’m an official nerd. This channel can post at any hour of the night and I’m in. There is no other more credible and factual information specifically about the topics discussed ANYWHERE else on this RU-vid place. Thank you so much for the body of work here and your continued efforts!
A well-made argument. I can't recall it clearly, but wasn't there some evidence of Aztec connection and ritual-influence on Chaco people were discussing back in the early 00s or late 90s? I think I heard about it from a PBS documentary series, but it's been a minute :T
I consider visiting the Chaco area to be one of my finest experiences in my life and I have spent years studying art history and archeological history worldwide. It has been upsetting to read of some of the distressing events which may have occurred among the “exclusive and wealthier” occupants of Pueblo Bonito even if that area was not for permanent but primarily ritual celebrations.
Thank you, this is the best Fremont presentation I have seen! I am glad you were not afraid of venturing into speculation; it is a compelling story. I am reminded of the old joke about how Norwegian Americans continue to ritually consume lutefisk at Christmas long after Norway abandoned the practice, i. e. emigrants can be culturally conservative compared to the source population.
I am Navajo and all my life the word Anasazi meaning was ancient enemy, that was being told by non-native people. In Navajo the language it means "those people that do things differently". The word Navajo is derived from the Anasazi, they called us A Na Bay Ho "people of many fields" which the pueblo people relayed to the Spanish who changed it to Navajo.
Great stuff about Chaco. I have seen the videos the Navajo put out about the anisazi. Very cool stuff. FYI, y'all desperately need to get someone on to talk about Cabeza De Vaca. Y'all got it wrong multiple times.
Those footprints cannot be older than 5,500 years old. Even the mythical Harry Potter had a Father and Mother. Science states everyone came from Evolution however the Bible states we all descended from one Man and one Woman, Adam and Eve. The Bible is correct and is observed to be true unlike science which is a manmade study of things based upon many manmade Suppositions. So what are Suppositions in Theories ? They are defined on Google as "Uncertain Beliefs". So it is absurdly obvious that Evolution is flawed and is itself a Myth. These humans and a few animals were attempting to escape the flood and after ten miles were overtaken by water. Why else are no other prints found?
So awesome as a Pueblo it's so awesome to see the ladies in healing!!! Go, ladies! Thank you for the recommendations for reads 😁. I have also had a bad battle with addiction, and I had to go back to basic, I went back to hiking and spending all my free time in the woods. I can say it has helped me get back to my core. This also reassures me that I am on the right track! I am also excited to ready your book, congratulations! From Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico.
To me, he is very understandable speaking standard US English. However the miking is terrible with very low spectrum reproduction which gives an annoying chirp to his speech
Fabulous integration of archaeology and changes, migrations over time by Steve. Knowledgeable, intelligent. Filled with insights, well labeled as to inferential and hard evidence, etc. impressive.
Thank you so much for recording this insightful presentation. As we explore indigenous motifs for our the Gallery/Garden Crystal Cove in Skyland, North Carolina.
Long before maize was introduced to the southwest Cat Tails/Tules were a main staple in diet, tubers & roots prepared and consumed in many ways from making flour to eating as raw salad, rare source of natural sugar.
