We always try to read so much into the rock art but... Hear me out... What if the petroglyphs were just the ancient version of a kids' coloring book? Or teenage rebellion? Mom and Dad return from a hard day @ Hunting & Gathering, Inc. just to find the preteens have tagged up the homestead...
Most likely ceremonial or defensive-guessing ceremony-the lack of pottery most likely very little was “hauled up that mountainside”, main camp at bottom shouldn’t be far away… (nobody wants to carry a ficus plant up there) 👍
Hi folks, It is a map. Get some infrared camera and overlay the squiggles. The squiggles are either a pathway, or a river denoting its bends. Look for wildlife, these are telling others may find game. Sincerely, R.
My curiosity is killing me. What the heck was going on with these folks' lives? A lot of this art looks like spiritual/dream and/or possibly hallucinogenic visions. Along with animal depictions, there are some pretty 'out there' wild pictures. I am so curious!
I'm completely mystified by how and why these ancient people built so incredibly high and how they did it. Defensive outlooks can't be the only reason, could it? How on earth do you raise little kids on the side of a sheer cliff? Or drag rocks and water up?
I grew up in gj Colorado. I've explored many of the same areas you go as a kid. You and your drone going to all these places i would have always wanted to go up to but wasn't allowed really make my inner child happy.
I bet you believe in weather balloons, too. It was a short range alien space ship, designed to look like an innocent bubbler. You were either fooled, or you are part of the conspiracy.
It looks like a fort. The holes look like firing ports and evidently they are all facing the only way to the top. The Spanish would have been the only people with firearms back that far. I believe it is a defensive position to protect the top of the hill. It is an amazing find! Congratulations.
That was an intense adventure. I hope you can go back someday with a ladder so we all can get a better look into the lives of these wonderful people. Thank you for taking us on your journey :)
Given that, seemingly, there were never any roof structures, the defensive wall with ports, its location on a ridge, etc., I would speculate this was a defensive position, built by people living in the valleys below, that they could retreat to when threatened.
When I lived on the Navajo Res working in the IHS I got to know some of the natives guys near me that were my neighbors at Fort Defiance. They took me to places as I said in my first post but they also showed me carved out spots in the shear face of the walls that the Anasazi used to climb like a ladder right up to their escarpments. I was told that on some of these the foot places that you start with have two spots dug out of the rock and you have to know which leg to start with because apparently if you start with the wrong leg you get up there in such a way that you would have to climb back down all the way to start over again with the correct leg to get up it. I never tested that theory tho!
I've hiked a lot of similar areas when we lived in AZ and the four corners of the USA. Lots of finds there. Natives I knew took me to some they used for shelters when storms moved in while hunting elk. You can tell walking that the area for the people that built these structures was much different for them than it is now for us. There was a lot of water there at one time. It is obvious that several times you walked in dried river beds. They're everywhere and they did pick and leave because the climate and the life they relied on for survival moved to green pastures. This one dried up and the people moved on when their Shaman or medicine woman told them it was time.
I love that the kids are making their own videos. Have they got a channel? I'm guessing not. but It was awesome to glimpse the budding RU-vidr of the future. :)
The mound that you recorded is an important finding. The Puebloan and the Din`e (A Na Bay Ho, Navajo) were slaves to an evil people, the Anasazi People. The Anasazi span was about 300 years. The Puebloans and Navajo people lived in the land before the Anasazi moved in. The Navajo and Anasazi clashed and eventually was enslaved by the Anasazi as was the Pueblo People. Most of the ruins that are in evidence today were built by the slaves of the Anasazi. In Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Montezuma Castle, etc. Fun Fact: Chaco means, Canyon of Crime due to the Anasazi being so evil. The Anasazi were so evil and cruel, they enslaved the children and older people to carry the small stones that are in between the larger stones in the walls of the buildings. The men carried the larger stones and even the logs from 50 miles away. The women made the clay mortar, pots, cooked and carried it to the slave builders. Some of the earthen ware they were forced to make were tall slender drinking vessels for evil purposes. The Anasazi said they were better than the god that the Din`e people believed in. They would use the drinking cups and Kivas for human sacrifices. This angered the slaves. The story goes; the Din`e people prayed for a strong wind to destroy the crops of the Anasazi and they ran away during the storm. The Anasazi died off. So, when the Din`e moved on they celebrate the breaking of the pots in remembrance of their freedom and their god saving them. That is why the mounds are so large. I'm sure that includes the garbage in the piles. This information comes from the elders of the Din`e (Navajo) clan of the cliff dwellers.
These ones on top are definitely places of last resort refuge. Pretty good ones, too. Like the keep of a castle. You " food storage" advocates. 😂 If I were you, I wouldn't be saying " defund the Police". You need the Police.
I saw a comment that says water line, that made me think (I know little about the canyons, but at some point could these people have lived there while there was water. Not only that could those be markers at to how high it could rise/ drop in a day?
Thanks for yet Another Great Vidclip .... Super Interesting .... Observation.... :- That Heap of 'White Material' looks so 'Out -of Place' , definitely did Not fall from Above.... Everything around there is Iron Rich material... Just wondering IF Perhaps that is 'Clay' brought in there, from elsewhere, for making 'Pottery' ..... ????? Hense the abundace of Pottery Shards .... Best to ALL from ChCh, NZ
From the looks and location, I think it is a stone blockhouse, a fortification. The 'windows' are the right size and height to be firing ports, they also face the only good approaches as well as providing excellent enfilades and defilades. It seems to have a commanding view of the terrain around it as well.
