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🤔💭one practical purpose for the doorway is that it's for your hands to rest on when you're entering/exiting. It's much easier to get in & out this way. Go try it! You will see! (Just don't try it on ancient ruins🤦🏼♂️) As for the symbolism, ask the people who did it, not the ones who found it!
If you wanted to enter or exit with a bow or atlatl, this would be a great design. It doesn't weaken the structure as much as a huge door. Easier to block off with two pieces and allows you to fire over the top. These ex spurts talk too much.
I'm watching this on a day when, in reading Craig Childs' HOUSE OF RAIN, I came to a page on which he recounts his reconnection with Susan Ryan. With them, I am moving through the site that Susan was about to return to the earth!
Or... It’s a multifunctional practical design feature, which also held social, historical and/or spiritual meaning. It’s an opening with seats. By closing off the narrow bottom section the T shape serves as a window, when fully open it‘s a door which securely holds a ladder in place, allowing backpacks and pole mounted, shoulder carried balanced baskets, buckets and jars to be easily handed off during construction and for future ease of use for resupplying the structure without traversing a crowded interior. Also creates a practical solution for additional ventilation and in cliff dwellings the ability of lowering materials to all parts of the structure from above more effectively and safely. For defense it provides the perfect cross section of viewing and launching projectiles onto attacking forces, while also being an access and/or escape route, using rope ladders attached to a pole. Large exterior and interior T-Doors can provide seating and shade for guards, while constricting entrance. 🤷♂️ 👣🕊👽
A Navaho Elder on you tube says Chaco was not a good place. It was known as a place of tears. Many Dene people were enslaved and made to build these places. When they left this place, they smashed the pottery, etc.
I wonder if the shape provides greater air flow. It may have originated as less of a meaningful structure and more as a way to provide cooling breezes throughout the interior. They clearly took on a meaning of status with the impressive size of the larger T-Doors, but even those may have been to allow greater airflow into larger structures where it would diffuse through main halls, and rooms.
They are also found in Peru, the Chachapoyas built very similar cliff dwellings with T shaped doors. Could be a connection. It would seem to me that the hole above the T doors could be to continue filling the granary above the door level perhaps. This short video is interesting ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wy62YOFpG7U.html
I wonder about the northern exposure for winter occupation Also, the odd shaped hearthe site might be an outdoor hearth Very normal to have an inside and outside fire space
If the T-doors represent a serpent's head, perhaps the hole above them represents an egg, as it does at serpent mound. The "egg", BTW, represents the island of Aztlan, as this was its shape.
My opinion T Shaped doors were first used as practice advantage. After all the purpose of adooris to "block out" .. the LESS surface area they need to block out the better! .. the bottom 2 and half feet of door space is normally only going t have 2 LEGS in it. Up higher you maybe carrying a basket of something, so more room is needed .. On the farm where I grew up my mom had a saying "Do not come in empty handed!" .. If nothing else there is always frewood to carriny in! :) .. I can easily imagine moms of the ancient Southwest had similar saying! :) <3
A suggestion the speaker seems to have his face full size about half the time and does not leave the slides up long enough It's best when the slides are full size but most of the time WWE have the gentleman taking 40% of the screen. Best wished and thankyou for videos
Megalithic T-structures are found in a huge circle at Gobekli Tepe in Anatolia, T-structures are also found in Peru, Egypt and Israel. Ovens in the shape of a T portray some female entity/Goddess in the Balkans. The solid T's almost always have a dot in the upper middle of the “T”. It has been hypothesized to represent a stylized birth canal, with the growing embryo/seed at the top.
Love the Crow Canyon archaeological center. I haven’t seen this one yet. I hope some of you awesome people from the West Coast will come help us out on the East Coast. We’re just destroying all kinds of stuff here.
32:05 top left you can see the eyehole and the face. The carved faces on the stones- first I would look for the birds because those are easier to see. Before paper, books, stone was the media for storing media. At first, I showed the archaeologist what look like just rocks, and then I found of the most defined ones and they still deny it-perhaps you could advise?
33:39 the emblems in red are what I see here in North Carolina as well. They are tribal emblems, and are not a type of animal or anything. It’s like a letter.
What I’m here to tell you is that there is a complicated, multi facet style of art within the stones that goes unrecognized until you study for three or four weeks. The way to learn it is complete immersion, keep them all on your kitchen counter, and in your common areas.
37:29 this guy knows, you know. Do you know how in India that I have that blue God with six arms? It doesn’t have six arms, those are only the poses of the dance. This is so frustrating trying to share ancient indigenous art- We should’ve recognized it a very long time ago. If you know, then we have to teach other people. There’s no possible way that some people just are so dense that they cannot understand or learn this. It’s about making people care. Things like the fish with the bear, figuring out the puzzles. That is what it’s going to get the public attention. Keep doing this!!! I love it 41:21 I use the Dstretch on my phone. It’s incredible.
44:22 sorry last comment! This is great, and I’m really enjoying the video. you will find that the petroglyphs are painted on top of the older carvings. People used to stand on the side of these mountains and sand them down to create an image. Later people came around and respected the site unlike us. They put their own art on top of the old art. I want you to be able to see the old art. It is the key to understanding human consciousness.
accurate. deep. Interesting. Thanks to my research on Coronado Expedition I came here and literally "drank it all down to the details". Great lesson. thanks from Italy.
The art piece with the red blouse, I have her in a glazed ceramic piece, sitting, neck and head straight, looking up. ("Woman in Pink Blouse", Albq NM)about 12'" square..... Sits with my other pieces of 4 corners type pottery, arrowheads, Mesa Verde cups ....
I'm 63 years old. I was raised in a hogan. I slept on a sheep skin and ran early dawn. I ate rabbit, prairie dogs and commodity food. I went to boarding school. The only time we come home was on Christmas vacation and school out. Life wasn't easy.
"Qui va" means "who goes" in French. As in "Who goes there?" As in - the people who went there, "qui va", were the members of the secret societies. The history of the French has been largely erased by the British and other cultures. But place names and words in a lot of Native languages (all over the world actually...) trace back to French and Spanish. "Nez Perce" tribe in Canada - Nez Perce means "Pierced Nose". "Dene" means "of the nose". I'm not sure if it refers to actual nose piercings, or if their "perfume" and bug repellant etc... offended the noses of Europeans, and the words refer to how they could smell them and their villages.
What only five responses? Lesson is an iconoclast, really shook up the staid world of Archeology, a scientist whose voice I respect and agree with. Esp as regards trade, power, and communication lines w Meso American city states. I read him while tramping thru Bears Ears, wonderful to read his insights while the starts shown down thru the Pondos upon me.
