Blood Flowed Like Water 

That was such an awesome watch! I really appreciated the time and effort put into making this! Excited for more to come!

How has no one commented on this? I have watched this like 4-5 times and really enjoyed the content. Thank you for the amazing channel!

What a great presentation. Thank you!

Very interesting, for what it implies about Phoenix Basin Hohokam.

Good stuff! Thanks for posting!

Thank you for conducting the research and sharing your findings. I’d be interested in knowing more about what items, markings, etc, found in the archaeological evidence would determine a thing is dealing with witches, ceremonies, or sacrifices. Regarding corn, I’ve read before, not sure which journal, that corn was first cultivated 9-10 ka and was in Peru by 6 ka. Maybe i read wrong? I do not think so but i will double check.

Fascinating! Loved it!

@Michael Jungwirth I know it right it's honestly really sad these people were amazing and smart and this history behind it is just amazing I use to live in new mexico as a kid I use to go to all of the cliff dwellings and pow wows from my dads friends going to the cliff dwellings in person is so different from just seeing it you can feel the ancient history there and all around peace at each site

@ Michael Jungwirth maybe the topic blood and violence reduced the number of people that watched it long enough to comment. He does touch on cannibalism also which freaks some people out. Interesting because I thought it was good also.

One argument I hear about large projects like the canals and large stone buildings is that it requires technology blah, blah, blah. Look at our interstates. In Dallas, Interstate 35 has had continuous work sites and improvements for the last 40 plus years I’ve lived in the area. Imagine not have a Western mindset with our ideas of time. They could work on a canal for 509 years and not bat an eye. It just needed doing because people needed it and didn’t hav restrictions.

the violence and cannibalism I have a problem with because archaeologists and scientists wanna say that these people were doing it to each other but I honestly dont believe that based on how these people lived and believed these people before they left to go live in cliffs were land people then at a certain time period they moved to the cliffs some even 100ft in the air where there children and babies would also live I believe these people were trying to hide from other people who were hunting them the cliffs they built looked out over the whole valley most of the time 180 degrees they would be able to see any enemies or predators coming for them miles away

Stories Chaco Canyon was a place games of death of winning over other young ones and ladies and control over humans you had to beat your challenge live in community and more Stories about what happen at the waterhole.

The speaker seems to be mostly assuming homogeneity among societies except for a few female captives. Without a DNA study of these differential types of burials it's difficult to tell if there could be subgroups within society that were receiving differential treatment, not unlike today. In europe, for example when the farmers came in there were interactions with the hunter-gatherers and I could assume the same would have happened in the Southwest. There is sure to be a cline in variation in DNA between peoples. Although raiding was a major part of society, having smaller subgroups of people among larger societies was most likely also common. Please reference another talk on the Safford Basin from this same society regarding Puebloan migrants among Sinaguan and other southern Arizona communities and the influences those immigrant peoples had on religion in the areas they settled in. There was not as much heterogeneity in prehistoric southern Arizona society as many scholars believe.

No.. it's the giant Monsanto corn we have now

How do we know that the American army didn't throw the mother and the baby and the pit?

You can have all the certifications degreesand academic credentials in the world but if you don't have charisma while you're teaching it's not that exciting