It’s not boring to find mortars. It’s not just the mortars it’s the area where they are. Looking at the area where they are found and imaging the native people setting there preparing their food. I camp and fish on the Kern river and I have found dozens of mortars. The areas look like a great place to have a village. Most people don’t know what mortars are. I appreciate your videos. .
Wow, that is an amazing area, not to mention the sheer beauty! This type of history never gets boring for me, so please keep showing everything the Native Americans made, used, left behind. People today cannot really appreciate this type of culture, and what it took to create it, and survive by it. Great stuff Alex! I really look forward to your videos. You are the man!!!♥️💯👍👍👏👏👏🖐🖐🦬🦬🦬🐎🐎🐎
Never boring, Alex. Always a pleasure. I could watch your videos all day! The respect and love you have for native culture is unmatched in my books. Thank you for all you do.
You have out done yourself again, Alex! Simply one of the very best videos you have done yet! Totally awesome! Keep up the great work! Truly a stunning video!!!
Thanks for the kind words. It was a fun trek and in and area not to far from where I live. The Big Rock series has 5 Parts to the series.................alex
Mr. Kerekes, Please do not be deterred by those who criticize your "treks" as a mere search for mortars. Even if that were true, each and every mortar site is unique, and tells its own interesting historical tale. Keep up the great work, and discard the negativity of those who want little more than bells and whistles. Thanks!
Hi Alex I love your vedios and stories you describe in your journey. Grinding stations and village sites are the most exciting parts of your stories. It shows the true story of life and the surrounding beauty. Being a Choctaw descendent, I appreciate your passion for culture. My girlfriend and I watch many episodes more then ounce. Thanks for all your hard work and wonderful stories. Michael
Always a treat to see a new upload! Interesting pestle! When I was a kid growing up in Cambria, I once found a pestle that had four deep finger dents and a thumb dent on the end. For someone with a really big hand! Brought it home (all 2 blocks!) and it's probably buried in the dirt on the property of my childhood home to this day, waiting for rediscovery by some future generation, which is appropriate. There was a huge burial area uphill from us, and two blocks down was a year-round spring (where I found it). Another block down was ranchland and a stream with a couple mortars on a rocky shelf. The burial ground was where I caught the school bus, and I believe they no longer allow people to build in that area. My mother taught me to always be respectful of the burial site and leave anything seen there where it was, as sometimes gophers turned up odd stuff. I lived amid constant reminders of the Elder Peoples in our neighborhood.
@ the shelter site as u were walking up to it. If u look really Good that Rock is Shaped inntoo A Thunderbird head Effigie coming out of Hill!!!!.Thank you fer ur video
Tommy, thanks for watching the series. There are often two separate references made about cupules because they look alike and the same term is used for both. First, the cupules seen in this video are cupules of a symbolic nature and do not have a function or use other than the symbol they represent. The term cupule is also used to describe the small indentations adjacent to mortars used to crack open acorns. These "nutting" indentations look like cupules, but they actually serve a function as an "anvil" to crack open an acorn/nut. The major difference is one is symbolic as opposed to the second which has a use/function/utility...............alex
Here in the eastern US cupules are also found on the ceilings of rockshelters. I find it interesting that in a field of boulders cupules are often found on just one or maybe two boulders. Do you find similar? Thx so much for the answer. Your videos are the best and I’ve seen some of them several times.
@@storiesbyalex ...... Alex, your videos on the plain of jars are the best I have seen.... I am 80 years old, and have been really interested in the plain of jars, ever since I saw them in National Geographic magazine in the late 50s.... thank goodness they are now a world heritage site.
Could the cupola be a place for drying skins to make clothes? I can picture the woman working with each other in that place doing lots of things. Children playing and babies needing care.
Do you ever see any indication of agriculture? Around the mortar? I would think a wetter climate back hundreds of years ago, some farming, was done may be irrigation ditches! thank you stay safe
Zeynel Ocak, in California the two primary after life rituals involved cremation or burials. Depending on the native group, burials often took place in shell mounds/midden sites. The following ling is a generalized overview of after life practices by Native Americans: www.deathreference.com/Me-Nu/Native-American-Religion.html#ixzz5d4EoTf6x
your thumbnail looked like a great way to grind a tablespoon full of something. you would eat more rock than grain. you couldn't even get the flour out of a whole like that
It's one thing to show bedrock mortars. No one can steal them. But I bet that pestle you showed, if not stolen already, will be stolen soon enough. Think for a change before you do this again.
Thanks for watching the series and your comment. I did not encounter the pestle in the mortar as it was laying amongst an adjacent rock debris field. It probably lay there untouched for several hundred years. Anyway, I returned it to that spot and covered it over with dirt. So, for brevity that part is not shown in the video.................................alex
