Trek with me to the Owens Valley in California where we will encounter a monolithic boulder containing images pecked in stone by early native Americans.
Thank . Alex you have provided many locations where my Ancestors had occupied. You are a blessing to your and my family. As we know life is very short but you have given us the pictorial documentary which celebrates the very existence of the Native people. Thank you.
I like how Alex teaches us how these early immigrant sites are wonderfully approachable for most anyone with hiking shoes and curiosity. Thank you Alex for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you, Alex. I’m always so happy to see your videos as they introduce me to fascinating places that (most) I have never seen. Your work inspires us to learn more, perhaps travel and revere these ancient places, as you have shown us. Thank you for giving us food for thought and I appreciate the respect to show to the locations, the Ancients and the contemporary Native American tribes.
Amazing, and beautiful! Amazing it has lasted all these millenia, and beautiful in its designs, and surrounding area it was carved in! Thank you so much for sharing!❤💯👍👍
Alex, Mario Torres here, I am not sure if you will read this message but I just want to thank you for your video and let you that the wonderful sky rock petroglyph that you are sharing here is actually a map of the region. The middle is the two rivers that run parallel to each other, and the upper boundary of the loop is the outline of the mountain ridges. The rest of the markings are landmarks.
Hi Alex, thanks for taking us on another journey. I really enjoy thinking about how special these areas must have been to live as a True native before white man came to this continent.
Hi Alex, amazing video as always! Glad you finally visited this amazing site. The Owens Valley is an amazing place to view sites like these. I once came across the charred foundations of a house near the Fish Slough Petroglyphs similar to those you found in the video you created on that site. Interesting to think how recently or far back it was inhabited and how different it looks from today.
Fascinating! what could it be? A map? Constellations? A calendar? A vision? Pure art? Doodles? An astronomical event? A barter schedule? A learning guide? Or maybe like giving a bunch of kids each a piece of chalk and telling them to go draw something on the sidewalk? Perhaps some day a quantum computer will have an idea, perhaps we will never know..
!! I have very much been wanting to know more about this site & it's been on my personal list to visit for a long time. THANK YOU immensely for yet another beautiful video Alex. I love your work.
Took me 2 years off research online and studying topo maps to find it and two trips to the Owen's Valley to search. I was so satisfying when I found it. Didn't find 13 moons till the next trip. It's such a beautiful site and beautiful area. I have not shared the location with anyone else. Did you go to 13 moons and to Roseta stone.
Years ago I got super lucky on my 1st attempt. Using a Galen Rowell image, I then geolocated using Google Earth. Within minutes after admiring Sky Rock, my kid found 13 Moons! What a great 1st trip out there for us. I've narrowed down the location for Rosetta Stone, but haven't had a chance to go search yet. I also haven't shared these locations. 👍
So beautiful. Thank you for documenting this and sharing it. The music is also very beautiful. I wish I knew what all they were saying. Do you have any idea how old these particular petroglyphs are?
Michelle, thanks for watching. Sky Rock contains three styles which are generally referred to as Great Basin Curvilinear, Great Basin Rectilinear and Great Basin Representational. Dating them would be speculative, but they could be from 2,000 to 500 BP (Before Present).
Hello Alex I love the way you incorporate the life blood heart and soul and free roaming spirit or our first Americans , I love the way my mind wonders off to a different time when I watch your videos that you, im so glad you are enjoying life in this beautiful fashion keep up the good work and may you keep healthy mentally and spiritually on your path that never ends👍🏽
Nice job giving a road map to SoCal Dregs....soon Sky Rock will be tagged in graffiti yellow/red & purple...the local Piautes I'm sure would like to thank you.
For your information, GPS coordinates for Sky Rock have been on the internet for several years before my film and I did not observe any damage when I was there..........................alex
@@andrewrobert5019 There is an internet publication that provides the location of dozens of sites in the Bishop area and dozens of sites in Arizona..........................alex
what those boulder's actually are is the remains of the buildings built by those that were here before the flood... the "Natives" descend from the survivors of that great cataclysm or "Reset."
I think that this is done by children. The artwork often found in caves and rocks is usually this way. I’ve always blamed it on the theory of evolution, making it errantly plausible that everyone who lived in ancient times was dim-witted (because they weren’t evolved enough to be capable of thinking clearly or drawing decent art). In reality, mankind have always been intelligent. I’d say that children played and made symbols on rocks, while the adults were doing more important things. The caves at Chauvet and Lasceaux and other parts of France show astonishing art works of talented humans. These are childish scrapings, as are many many others.
I haven't heard anybody who studies glyphs suggest that the work was done by children. Many sites reflect celestial events like the solstice and equinox. Were there child astronomers? Have you ever tried to produce art by scraping it into a rock face?! We'll never know the meaning behind most of these symbols, but that doesn't mean they lacked significance to the ancient people.
Imagine having the artistic skills of a seven-year-old, and then someone comes along 500 years later and doesn't understand that you have the artistic skills of a seven-year-old, and doesn't realize what he's looking at is seven-year-old artistic skilled artwork....... ask your seven-year-old to draw a picture of something! You will Understand everything, stop blaming it on the tools!!!!
I totally agree. The artwork often found in caves and rocks is usually this way. I’ve always blamed it on the theory of evolution, making it errantly plausible that everyone who lived in ancient times was dim-witted (because they weren’t evolved enough to be capable of thinking clearly or drawing decent art). In reality, mankind have always been intelligent. I’d say that children played and made symbols on rocks, while the adults were doing more important things. The caves at Chauvet and Lasceaux and other parts of France show astonishing art works of talented humans. These are childish scrapings, as are many many others.
