Love the StoriesByAlex videos here on the RU-vid...presented in the right spirit and level of curiosity...backed by knowledge and experience...just wonderfully watchable!
I'm so glad you found this cave. Most people who have cabins at Arroyo Seco Resort don't even know where this cave is. I was told that this cave, and the whole little canyon around it were excavated in the 40s and that what they found is in a museum in Salinas. Thank you, Alex for showing us more things to notice. I'll add to what you showed that several other spots around the cave are slight overhangs that are still scorched from fires for countless centuries. It's on private property, so the general public can't just go wandering around, but the river is a short walk down the canyon, that is, if you aren't allergic to poison oak. It's thick in there, and hard to get to the cave without a two week rash, but impossible to walk the shortest route to the river without going through a bunch. I imagine the natives would have had paths, and even thinned out the thick brush around the cave. It's been untouched for 100 years. I've seen many of your videos, but I just now saw this one a year late. I can't wait to share it with my family.
Good to see a new video, we have a place called "The Bluffs" out here in Grants NM, and there are tons of these sites all over the place. This video makes me feel like I'm there investigating the site with you! Thanks again!
There's a couple of neat little dugout spots I believe in a sandstone wall there about 100' off of Arroyo Seco Rd. on a cattle ranch property just south of the bridge that actually remind me a lot of the location featured in this video... Hey hey from Salinas ✌😁
Hey Alex I’ve been subscribed to your channel for a year I found it when I began my journey to explore my local area of the Monterey County and the rich history behind it can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate what you do I’ve learned so much from your videos, can’t help but to ask if you would ever make trek events where you’d bring people along to educate on our areas history? if so I would love to be a part of one of your treks
Interesting and informative! I think the sand buildup inside the cave brought the floor up and covered the fire pits. Theres an Arroyo out on Colorado eastern high plains where natives ran buffalo into deep crevasses and trapped them. The evidence of methods of "harvest" were found where they worked. Broken stone tools, lots of bones and arrowheads were found there. The history is all but lost but it's on private property so not disturbed too bad. Love your stone bracelets and ring.
Come to balch camp. It's above pine flat lake aways. There's pictographs on a Boulder in the middle of a pgne camp and many more scattered throughout the canyons.
Hello & thank you for all your educational videos! Have you been to one of Californias best preserved indigenous cave paintings, know as Burro Flats? it includes a cutout in the cave wall that allows the solstice morning light to strike a painting of concentric circles, that indicates the shortest day of the year, winter solstice. The location is kept secret, iv managed to obtain the coordinates.
The original habitation levels in that cave are probably 10 or 12 feet below the current floor level. There could actually be several levels going back thousands of years.
... You're doing good work. Thank you.... go look at the plain of jars. Likely, they are an ancient work of art, honoring the Opium poppy. They are shaped like poppy pods, and are scattered randomly, like poppies in a field. It is unlikely they were used for burials.
I seen several faces on the walls. I’m surprised you didn’t notice them. Maybe it’s me and the weird faces I tend to see everywhere lol. But I want to thank you for the awesome gift . I Love all your videos.Thank you kindly. From Southern Missouri. I tell you if you want to see a cool place it’s at a place near Fredericktown Missouri. It’s called The Shut ins. Now don’t have it mixed up with the famous Johnson’s Shuts ins . This is a totally different spot. Huge red granite boulders everywhere. And Thousands upon thousands of effigy stones . It is a native Indian site also. So what s found has t be left. There’s the National Forrest Rules there are applied for all State Parks. So if you ever make it my way come see this beautiful place.. thanks again for the awesome video. Have a wonderful day……
I too enjoyed your videos. BUT cringe when I think of all the lightbulbs turning on in the minds of the piece of crap artifact thieves that will undoubtably use your video to take them where they didn't think to go before. NEVER EVER GIVE LOCATIONS OR SHOW LANDMARKS IN THE BACK DROP DISTANCE OF YOUR VIDEOS. Thieves suck.
Thomas, thanks for watching the video and your comments. Unfortunately, one human characteristic of is the ability to destroy. However, most of the sites that I have filmed and re-visited have remained intact. Much of the decay or loss that I have observed has been natural and especially in those areas where the stone surface is a sandstone type...............................alex
