Ancient Village Discovered on Google Earth in The American Southwest? 

Some archeologist will find your pottery and say it was used in a religious ceremony. LOL

Yes, no question. It does depend upon where your pot finishes. Our landfills will be excavated thousands of years from now. The one thing I know that will be ubiquitous, Porcelain toilets. Our white toilets are capable of lasting millions of years. Landfills excavated 10 or 20 million years from now will be dated by the white toilets. AND your pottery. (It may well be the descendants of our modern ants doing the excavating.)

Oh shut up. There is nothing wrong with surface hunting. No digging!

I agree with you, someone else would have kicked down the walls

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Thank you, Tee King!

Just like fine wine.this is a awesome findfor our viewing pleasure

At 4:20 I thought you found an earring in the green vegetation in the upper right hand corner of the screen! Hahaha I’m too much of a lost artifact junky!

What broke the pottery? Could it be the wind? Or a heavy snow load? Or cavemen

No, it only means that a small population left a lot of trash. Thin walled pottery easily breaks, in one year dozens could be broken, and dozens broken each year after. It was easy, and some women perhaps their full time job, to make more pottery.

The population was the same 800 years ago as it is now... sickness came 500 years ago and then the spaniards... The population was already on the decline when the spanish arrived, and it just got worse from there...

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Wrong.

@@headlessspaceman5681 no

You and me both brother, at 53 i am reliving my days out there vicariously through his adventures. use to spend a bit of time out there myself when i was young. miss the conversation and camaraderie of the locals i use to frequent out there. spent many nights in the cliffs camping eating and drinking with some of the old timers. Now all i have are photographs.

Thank you so much, Bob! It's not always possible (and easy!) to take everyone, but I love those trips the most! Thank you for your comment and kind words!

@@UrbCrafter Yes I miss those days. If I could, I would spend the rest of my days just exploring different places. I love these videos like you do. They keep me happy and I enjoy watching the young man find these places better than any other videos

There are a few of these remaining where you don’t need reservations! lol That’s why I like this one

@@TheTrekPlanner Old school camping, best camping! 😃😃👍👍

Thank you so much!

@@TheTrekPlanner I'm lucky enough to have a good buddy who does my editing, but also I capture and post whatever I happen to see next, so it takes much less of my free time than your fantastic channel takes you! I plan on continuing watching everything you post.

This is a good point. I really want to know these locations so I can try to Google Earth them and perhaps someday visit, but some would steal and ruin the location.

@@JerryBWagoner just get permission for your own safety.

I would like to see all of the artifacts and learn what tribe or tribes were occupying the site!

That is so amazing to see not only the cliff dwellings and pot shards, but to also see the finger prints is just so incredible!

Thank you so much! I figure that many of these sites have been looted too which unfortunately means that many of the original structures were destroyed :-/

That is a great idea, Jamie!

Thank you! I love this area!

Thank you, Sandy! I love just sitting nearby and imagining what this area would have been like!

Thank you kindly! I love this stuff!! I've shown pictures of some of the things I found to a BLM ranger a while ago and he just said "that's neat" and that was it. I asked him if he had any information about it and he basically just said that almost all of the sites are known, but haven't been properly surveyed or studied and probably won't ever be. I'm not saying every site should be surveyed or looked at, but I feel like it's important to at least take pictures of them!

Please, no excavations. Respect ancestral Pueblo sites.

I too am from Indiana, the northern Kankakee region. This area has a rich Native American history. Unfortunately it cannot be explored as easily because it being farmland and/or privately owned and they’re not keen to letting people poke around their property.

The majority of people are not interested in native artifacts or their history. One reason why people do not know of these things.

@@robwoodke6592 so much stuff in the flatrock river area and great fossils

@@goodeye6373 most all land in the east is private and farmers don't want to lose use of their land. 20,000 years of living means most places have stuff. my brother picked up over a hundred points on our small farm near catawba ohio. he would look in a freashly plowed field after a rain. likely way more natives living in the east for its size cause better game and water.

@@victorhopper6774 I had said to other people pre Columbus that the East was full of people. Don't know what happened perhaps they burnt the dead after Columbus, but people assumed that there was not a large population East of the Mississippi. Also Native Americans are one of the least studied people . People were discredited for years for having older dates than the land bridge theory people and not changing the narrative for years.

Thank you for your comment! It’s beyond me why people would want to steal from these places

Thank you, David! I truly don't know everything haha I'm just an unlearned explorer who loves this stuff! Thank you for being part of my channel! Means so much to me!

That is so cool! I would so love to see some of the places you've scanned with LiDAR! I had no idea there were even resources out there for that kind of thing. Thank you for the suggestion!

I live in Utah, this way of life here is quickly evaporating. We get thousands of Californians and Mexicans monthly and it is getting so crowded, even in the rural areas unfortunately. They don't respect the land or the history unfortunately.

Thank you, Chris! Happy to have you part of the adventure with me!

Thank you so much, Raymond!! And thank you for sharing my channel with your family and friends! Means so much to me!

@@TheTrekPlanner Jeff, you are doing incredible work! I am pleased to see how you are sharing your discoveries with all of us, and I believe your work will have significant impact for all of us throughout the country. I want to support it any way I can.

Welcome aboard and thanks for joining with me!!

haha thank you! The Impala is nearing it's last days...It has been with me for quite some time and is begging to be retired!😂😂

My thought too. Although, I didn’t show it in the video, but now I feel like this place has been looted in the past

Thank you!

nomadic and disease. in a place dry even firewood would quickly be a problem. no horses to hual anything. hard rough life.

Ask the locals, they will tell you where they went...

@@victorhopper6774 You watch to much national geographic lol...

@@UrbCrafter have never watched it but it is clear a place there would not support many for long.

​@@victorhopper6774 That is the problem with the ideology of uniformitarianism. Look at the quantity of grain storage sites throughout the Anasazi region, if you gathered up all the corn cobs you could pile them higher than the deepest canyon in Utah. Do you really think this area was always a dry arid dust bowl? Do you really think this civilization lived here only a thousand years ago? Why did they go from a ground dwelling people to hanging off the cliffs in caves and structures made of stones they hauled up there with their bare hands? This was a civilization of 30 to 50 thousand people that vanished overnight in terms of history. Research what they left behind. not the crap the mainstream archaeologists and anthropologist are pushing. Look at the pictographs and petroglyphs they left behind and read the lore. These people did not just die out or move on, and the four corners region are not the only place they inhabited. research what the spiral petroglyphs meant/mean to them and other groups from the region.... I have seen things on those canyon walls that are not part of mainstream historic record, things that are dismissed as fanciful or imaginary depictions, things that there is no possible way they could have drawn without having witnessed with their own eyes and i have seen things that we are told no one has ever seen or that never existed but there they are, painted on a rock face in the middle of nowhere and ignored by the very people we trust to investigate these things. Everyone holds the people of this region in high regard until they try to tell them the truth about their history then its dismissed as myth and legend.

These are definitely ruins and should be reported to the antiquities and First Nation authorities.

@@SongOfSongsOneTwelve When I started hiking in southern Utah, I reported the first site I found to the State Archaeologist’s office. I was completely ignored. There is an undocumentably large supply of ancient remains in this area.

​@@mirandamom1346 That's sad to hear. You'd think they'd want to investigate all findings.

@@johnmca5643 Maybe they’d like to, but I imagine it would be far more manpower than their budget allows.

@@mirandamom1346 it would take more man power than this country has... there are too many of these sites... your local shopping mall probably replaced one of these important sites... I think they all should be investigated heavily!!!

I was thinking the same thing, except without anyone with you, that could become your tomb.

There are hundreds if not thousands of these sites, most professionals don't really care about these sites, unfortunately they have already been plundered.

Do. Not. Dig. Native ruins. Do NOT dig Native ruins. Do not dig NATIVE AMERICAN ruins. Just don't. Can you imagine teams of, say, Chinese archaeologists digging up your grandparents' cemetery? Seems kinda messed up doesn't it?

I agree Mark, it's worth at least making a few phone calls huh?

In this area there is no shortage of things for archeologists to study. It is highly likely they already know about it. Hidden in plain sight if you will.

Don' report nothing

Major props my friend for being so respectful of the site . Most people watching your videos don't understand the reverence that you have for the people who built this place . Once again thank you for your respect .

Would probably be better to contact a nearby tribal leader

Really appreciate your comment! I also love envisioned what life would have been like for them. Im hoping I can make a visit to several Ancestral Pueblo museums soon to show more artifacts and get more context for my videos

They drank water. They ate corn, bunny rabbits, wild plants, and sometimes other people. Their clothes were made from cotton they grew and other plant fibers and animal skins.

I can relate. Would be so fun to just wander around for days and explore

@@TheTrekPlanner I camped out in Abiquiu nm for a summer by the rio chama river and up on the side of the mesa found lots of pottery shards and found man sized large holes cut into the side of hill where they must have cooked or fired their pottery from the smoke stains inside. Mosquitos were so bad that they kept you inside after sunset so I don’t know how they ever lived with that problem.

Thank you!!