Fossil Falls & Little Lake - Inyo County - California 

Absolutely love your enhancements. So much clearer. I'd like to go through all of your videos and do this. Very exciting. Again, thank you for documenting these sites. There are as many as I thought there were. Native People were everywhere.

Thanks a lot Mr Alex, I am watching this video for the second time.

Alex, this was one of the most enjoyable independent travelogs and archaeological walks I have found on RU-vid. I admire you for gently handling these important artifacts and respecting the sites. You have earned my respect and my subscription to your channel. Hope to see more of your videos.

that is so interesting alex. i am glad to see the graffiti artists havn't desecrated the site.

MY Great great great Grandfather Bill CHico was From Little lake he was koso or Panimint shoshone. For five centuries, North Americans have been fascinated and intrigued by stories of the magnificent Aztec Empire. This extensive Mesoamerican Empire was in its ascendancy during the late Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries. The Aztec Empire of 1519 was the most powerful Mesoamerican kingdom of all time. This multi-ethnic, multi-lingual realm stretched for more than 80,000 square miles through many parts of what are now central and southern Mexico. This enormous empire reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico to the present-day Republic of Guatemala. Fifteen million people, living in thirty-eight provinces and residing in 489 communities, paid tribute to the Emperor Moctezuma II. However, by the time that Hernán Cortés and his band of Spanish mercenaries arrived on the Gulf Coast of Veracruz in 1519, omens of impending doom had begun to haunt Emperor Moctezuma II and his advisors in their capital city, Tenochtitlán. With an incredible coalition of indigenous forces, Cortés and his lieutenants were able to bring about the fall of one of the greatest indigenous American empires in only two years. The Empire that the Aztecs amassed makes them unique among Amerindian peoples. But, in at least one respect, they are far from unique. The Aztecs and other Náhuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico all belong to the Uto-Aztecan Linguistic Group. Spoken in many regions of the western US and Mexico, the Uto-Aztecan tongues include a wide range of languages, stretching from Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming all the way down to El Salvador in Central America. And the Aztecs represent only a small - but significant - part of this linguistic group. While the Aztecs of the Sixteenth Century lived in the south central part of the present-day Mexican Republic, a wide scattering of peoples who presently live in the United States could probably be described as “distant cousins” to the Aztecs. If you belong to the Shoshone, Ute, Paiute, or Gabrielino Indians, you may very well share common roots with the famous Aztecs of central Mexico.

It would be so rewarding to be your hiking pal!! Thank you so much for your treks :}

Never get tired of petroglyphs... Thanks for the trek

Amazing video! I jave enjoyed visiting Fossil falls before, but never knew it contained so much more splendor. Thanks so much.

Great pics and drawings edited in for clarity. Just a wonderfully enjoyable watch.

These videos are so enjoyable and inspirational. This is something I want to get out and start doing especially this summer.Thank you for sharing these videos with us.

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Wow! Thanks for sharing!!! I don’t have anyone to teach me the kinds of things you know. My kids and I went to fossil falls today to find petroglyphs. We did find one. We are careful to make sure we don’t disturb them. Really appreciate you explaining what the symbols mean. Special thanks from Tehachapi!

Thanks for informative video. I’m going to visit this area in April, stay at the campground

Really thumbs up for this insightful and very Reverent sincere interpretation by mr. Alex.

I totally enjoy your treks into the west. This site is one I plan to follow your foot steps. I can't say enough about the enjoyment I get and the beauty of the west rocky hills and such. About the petroglyphs. I really hate to rain on this but we all should be open to learning new things even if it is different that what we have believed in the past. That how I got where I am today. Dang I hate to do this but I must for the sake of progress. Most of the petroglyphs you are seeing are done to pass on to the future generations what they say in the sky. A electrical plasma discharge event took place during there time that scarred the west and places all around the word. The man figure you see often is knows as the squatting man. It's likeness is seen in the sky as plasma glows and the thickest parts glow more on the edges leaving the patters you find on the rocks. Notice they draw or carve them on mostly blackened rock. This is electrically scorched as such. To much to go into here. I know you will find this information a valuable tool for you next online videos. Go to,... thunderbolts.info for the life lesson. Be well and safe my friend.

Alex, Great job with this. I have previously been and will be passing by Fossil Falls again soon and will be stopping by to check out these petroglyphs. Where are these in relation to Fossil Falls? How would I get to these? Thx

Have you ever been to the Coso hot springs? Unfortunately they happen to fall within the China Lake naval weapons range but they are very important to the Coso and Paiute people of today.

I really enjoy your videos

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Neat video, but I think it would have been nice to have left the hawk to its meal if possible.

Wow, I know where this is! But if I went there I would never see nor appreciate the petroglyphs. Thanks much for the education.

Great video, could you give me any information in your research on the Oroville dam in CA. I know aboriginal people were driven out to build it. I've seen pics of arrowheads, was the area volcanic. Thank you!!

I would bet those petroglyphs @6:20 and @9:35 are at least 10,000 years old...it would take that long for that scratched rock surface to be weathered to that extent...

I read the water analysis in the area of Darwin was among the purest known. An undergraound aquifer from the melting of the glaciers. Also out that way a mineral company wants to strip mine for gold.

When red paint is splattered, does that mean that blood was spilled there? I see it at a few different places now. Here, it's at 14:16.

Cool!

The triple cross looks like the paleo-semitic letter samech, which is possibly the symbol of a skeleton or "to prop up or support"! In other words, this location is habitable!

The circle with a cross is like the paleo-Hebrew letter "tet", possibly representing a serpent!

I wish you wouldn't disclose the location of these places! It's only a matter of time before vandals show up to destroy this amazing place! They just reported one of the petroglyphs stolen not too long ago!

I liked it until the focus was on the slain rabbit. I didn’t come here to see that. I came for the petroglyphs. I know it’s nature but I have pet rabbits so I won’t watch any further.

Are those sites inhabited by cavemen??