I Found an Ancient City on Google Earth 
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ม.ค. 2024
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While exploring an area on Google Earth, I came upon an interesting looking object in the desert. It seemed like a manmade structure. I hiked in to see what it was. I was astonished by the enormity of this ancient ruin
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The pottery with the swirl pattern is Tularosa style dated 1200-1300 A.D. Some of those also looked like Wingate style that dated 1000-1200 ad. The Anasazi (ancestral pueblo) developed styles throughout the years kind of like how styles from the 1970 looks different than styles from the 1980's. Most of these pottery styles lasted for 200-300 years but they did have distinctive styles that are dated using tree ring dating. Anasazi built pit houses partly underground. The sides and roofs were made of wood poles covered with brush, mud and stone. A fire burned inside in the winter and the smoke escaped from a hole in the roof. The Anasazi would grind up broken pottery know as grog and use it as a temper in pottery instead of sand from the washes. This prevented cracks in the firing process. The pottery that wasn't ground up for pottery would be discarded in trash mounds. Typically this would be an abandoned pit house that would get filled up with broken pottery, animal bones and other trash. It was also common for them to bury their dead under the floors of the pit houses.
I'm surprised how the pottery on top could be there undisturbed for 1000 years. How come it wasn't covered by sand and dust long time ago? That must indicate the weather patterns over that time.
Love the insight, thank you for taking the time to comment
@@Alarix246I would also like an answer to this question.
I would imagine that a lot of pottery is buried by erosion and dust. Perhaps there was just so much of it that there is still a significant amount lying around on the surface. Some of it may be uncovered by wind as well?
As always, very interesting, some beautiful pot shards
Thank you for taking me along with you this evening. I'm 85 years old and your giving me a chance to see the type of senery ive always wanted to see. Being a girl, I was always afraid to go out like this alone. But your calm and determined way of showing us things is so helpful to make us see the Indian ruins and the way they lived. I've watched a lot of your videos and have loved everyone of them . thanks!
The archaeology is northern Sinagua and Anasazi cohabitating the same area. There about 40 of these small pueblos in the cinders. Ash alone is not great for farming, but Sunset Crater's eruption also caused a dramatic localized increase in moisture that made the ash a fertile bed for Pueblo style farming normally done in sand or irrigated plots. The pottery is Sunset Red mostly, Black Mesa B/W, Sosi B/W, Flagstaff B/W, Holbrook A-B B/W, and Walnut B/W. All the B/W pottery looked like Tusayan-Kayenta-little Colorado Anasazi. Prescott and Cohonina pottery is around as well and is pretty common at some of the sites in the cinders. There's even a couple of famous Hohokam sites from people who may have migrated from the Verde Valley to farm the cinders a few miles away from where you were.
Love the insight Dave. Thanks for sharing. Hope to have more of your insights on future vids
Thank you for sharing your detailed knowledge
I love your respect for history. please don't let other people know where you go.
My first guess would be a "long house". That is where whole tribe would stay. Safety in numbers. Maybe the divisions were more for food storage than rooms for people. Even livestock was kept inside. What a great look back into history. Love the time you take to look at and speculate what it could have been. Thank you so much for taking us all with you.
Hi Mister Drifter, I have just found your channel here in north west England and find it fascinating how people lived in those remote areas. It's good to see you leave any artifacts in place, hopefully for others to see and leave. I have subscribed and look forward to exploring history with you.
What is so amazing to me is that the pottery lying on the ground untouched after thousands of years. Like the people just left this living area & went some where else. Unbelieveable.
It's so interesting watching your videos, I'm a sucker for history myself, I metal detect in the UK and love finding antient medieval and roman coins, to hold something that hasn't been touched in a thousand or 2 thousand years is special, my oldest coin is roman dating 45 ad,
I hope you find a complete pot or cup one day get it in a museum, awesome video 🏴🇺🇸
Awesome videos! My only complaint. They are too short. I like seeing the pottery shards and all the designs on them. WhenI was in AZ I got to explore some ruins and touch some pieces and it’s an amazing connection when you can walk among and physically touch the past.
I’ve always wondered if they just threw it down and smashed it when they relocated.
Great job. I look forward to the next video and making it back out that way to explore for myself. Thanks from Kentucky!!
Thanks for the feedback. I’ve got some ideas for longer videos, they should be out in the next couple weeks 😉
I was told by one of the descendents of the Slaughter Ranch on the AZ/Mexico boarder that the Mexican Apache that inhabited Southern Arizona/Mexico. They would destroy what they could not carry from camp to camp as they move seasonally so their enemies couldn't use what they left behind. I would "assume" most tribes did this also.
You know what assume spells though. 😂
Is true! Hahaha 😂
You are living an exciting life . I Appreciate the view
Thanks for the support my friend!
Love ur vids. I'm in the UK & watch u regularly. U are lucky u have such open spaces to explore. Enjoy x
Glad you like them!
Thanks for another solid video! Your videos have inspired me to dust off my hiking boots and hit the trails. Stay safe out there
Love that! Have fun out there 🤙🏼
Wish I was physically fit for such adventures. Bless you, enjoy and keep exploring
Exiting stuff, been watching your blog for couple off days now, unfortunately I came to the end off all the videos....waiting for the next one...😊
Thank you so much for your videos,it’s just wonderful to see so much history, so magical to see all the old dwellings, and your commentary is so interesting.
You became so much of a part of us that view your videos. You have even made us time travelers allowing us to ponder events that many other people lived as daily routine. I pause the video a lot as I view the screen---envisioning what thoughts they might have ha from that simple daily routine.
Hi, Charlene here! I am new to your channel and I love watching your history, hiking videos. Recently, your channel gave me inspiration for an assignment in college class, and got 100%. If there were a way to dedicate it to your channel, I'd share it. Thank you for your content! Inspirational!
Your best video ever! Almost like being there.
Discovered your channel randomly... I’ve always had an interest in archaeology and exploration since I was a kid. Somehow ended up as an architect! Great production quality and content. The beauty and mysterious nature of this region has me hooked on your videos. Looking forward to catching up on the older ones and following along for more! Be safe out there!
OH WOW !! What an incredible journey and the ruins you found makes one wonder how these people built this community and how they lived & survived on a daily basis. Thank you for sharing this video with all of us. (I'm 78 & fit right in with your other followers. Looking forward to the next video ! Thanks again.
Nothing to say...I would just gush with praise for the high quality of presentation. A model for other presenters to follow. Just want to contribute a comment so as to invite others to join in on this wonderful channel.
Those fallen structures being piles if rocks remind me of traveling in Central America to different unrestored site. My mind still wonders what they were used for and how they looked originally. Love watching your videos.
Thanks Dan. I'd love to see some of the sites in Mexico and South America. Maybe one day...
Very Cool.👍
Love this - I moved to Southern AZ about ten years ago and love exploring the desert....with the hopes of finding stuff like this.
Very enjoyable! Thank you Andrew!
Stay safe!!
Show every piece of pottery Pleeeease ! I love it. I'm hooked !
I love your channel and am excited to see more! I really love how you stop and show small details, and that you leave things where you find them. The views are beautiful and it's nice to imagine what it must have been like to live or work in these places. Thanks so much for making these wonderful videos and sharing them with us.
Nice historical moment,,😊
Ash does enrich the soil. Ask the folks near Vesuvius, Italy, their crops produce beautiful bounty. Those pottery shards, though! Its nice that you respect archeological rules when you find artifacts. Great videos, really enjoy them. Thanks!
I always wonder how people managed to find the things they needed to survive in their environment. It seems that the most critical resource need in the desert would be water. Maybe water was more abundant during their time. Thanks for the video Andrew !!!
It wasn't a desert at first, I believe.
Love the content, thanks for doing it.
Glad you’re enjoying it. As long as people watch it, I’ll keep filming
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
I’m inspired. Thx much
Another person mentioned this topic. Can you make longer videos? I understand there's editing althought. I love seeing the areas you're in. Unless you have foot traffic concerns plese give us at least the state. My father owned a farm in N.C. On this property was once a large Cherokee or Catawba tribe and a graveyard from the early 1700's. There was evidence of a large white settlement also. The tribe and the whites appeared to live somewhat side by side. We thought a one time we found the meeting/town center for both parties. Throughout the farm was pottery shards, cookware, often very large pieces of pottery. Arrowheads and rock tools were so very easy to locate. Your videos take me back to my childhood and searching for pottery, arrowheads and tools. Thx for your videos!
Some of those low lying mounds could be burial sites. Lidar may help.
I always try to consider the fact that the environment was different the closer you get to the last Ice Age. Less a desert and probably more like a forest or savannah.
4 corners area was forested, until it was wiped out. Chaco culture and all that didn't help.
There was something very touching about the pottery remaining in place and lying there to be appreciated by us now. Thank you for the trek.
Love to see what your exploring lovely places Thank You for takeing us with you.❤
Glad you went back for a part two 🙌🏻
Wow great adventure , thanks for sharing !……..
Right on man. That was really cool!
Love that area of the Strip
Dude! You've got an amazing life!
Not to mantion a great wife
What I find curious is that pottery chards seem to be prevalent but no signs of multiple pieces from the same pot, like someone took random pieces and just scattered them around.
Apparently they ground up broken pottery to mix with their own clay to make it stronger.😊
Whatching all your videos here from brazil !
Maybe the stone piles are from clearing fields for farming? I'm enjoying your videos. It's Interesting content, presented well👍 Thanks
If you ever find yourself in Western Colorado id be happy to show you some of our local spots!
Love the content man!
If he ever takes you up on that let me know so I can tag along - fellow western CO resident!
@@yourmomisanicelady You mite like what I have on my channel so far then lol. Been forever since I posted but its there.
What part of the Western Slope are you in?
Take him to Gateway nucla area. I used to work at that resort in Gateway when it was first built. There was nothing to do down there but explore the back country. There is lots of great hidden things to see following the river into UTAH.. lots of wall art up on those hills.
Have you considered using a small drone to get an aerial view? It would bring all the ground stones into the building shapes.
Happy exploring 🔍
Thanks!
Hello google 🤣🤣
Your channel is so cool, my friend! What fascinating vibes 🎉
Glad you’re enjoying it!
Most excellent .... that must have been a great place to live!
What you do is totally outside my realm of experience... but when I was a kid on a farm in the midwest my brother and I when out exploring found the remains of a stone house foundation just across the property line, and in it we found bits of charcoal and melted glass and broken china. Finding those little bits and using them to guess that some old farmer's house had burnt down there long ago was a cool experience that gives me a little bit of an idea of what you experience with your finds. Thanks for the vids!
Well poopy lol i found your channel suscribed and done watched them all. Thank u for being you...
The corrugated pottery is for cold water or pine nut oil storage. The increased surface area kept its contents cool, much like the Japanese Jomon period pottery. I think pine nut oil is what was so valuable and needed to be heat processed, stockpiled and then guarded. At one time it was 4x the value of gold. Some of the pottery shards look like they might be gambling bowls. They used four sided barrel dice. The structures were made by humans. But I don't think they were made for humans. It's the steps. Because our history was erased, we can only guess and dream of what once was. Thank you.
Another excellent video, thank you!
Are you planning to maybe use a drone in the future to supplement some of your videos?
Yeah! Literally just got one in the mail today. Cant wait to take it for a spin
Beautiful pottery pieces. Love your videos and enjoy your persona ❤ I don't know why , but it is very relaxing watching these , a great distraction. And part of that is your calm demeanor. Thanks for being you !
Thank you for the support and kind words 🙏🏼
Thanks again 👍
The piles of stones/rocks may be just a central point for depositing stones cleared from surrounding fields to allow plowing/ planting of corn and other farm products.
So very cool! Thanks again for taking us with you! 👍🏼😎🌵
Near sun set crater . Ive enjoyed that area. Ruins every where. We almost got the truck stuck in the volcanic sand stuff near side of road. That stuff is crazy
Thanks for the info
Great job! When I see broken pottery scattered, makes me think that something not to good happened! Neat!
I really enjoyed your video. Love from The Blue Mountains in Australia.
Your content is awesome. Do you where special shoes to walk around on the cliffs?
I would love to follow You on a hike - but money and distance prohibits this. But I REALLY like Your attitude toward the culture remains.
Very interesting. Deserts are my favorite places to be.
They are fascinating places! Thanks for watching
It reminds me of some other minor ruins. I would call therm hamlets were people lived in long houses divided into one room apartments. It was dangerous to live in single family dwellings at the time.
so cool.....
Do you ever capture aerial imagery datsets of the places you visit? it would be fascinating to process them and make 3d maps of the areas
Cool to see the outlines of the various buildings at that compound. I'm wondering if flying a drone above it would give you a better picture of the overall shape of the structure? There's another guy online who does these types of hikes and he uses a drone now and then.
Also I'm wondering if any university might have a list of sites like this that they've actually done field work on which might provide you some scholarly information!
The lava there indicates this might be near the Flagstaff area! I've done some hiking there, while I lived in Page, AZ.
Thanks for watching and commenting Wade. I just got a drone in the mail yesterday. Stay tuned!
Perfect! Don't know if you've ever flown one or not but there's a bit of a learning curve. Like everything, there are good TH-cam vids on the subject!
@@Desert.Drifter
@@Desert.Drifterlol told ya! Back before you had 500 subs even then I knew your channel would take off! The drone shots add so much for us viewers!! Thank you!! Stay safe, have fun & try something new!!
Thank you for sharing 🌻🐝
Would love to study that pottery,,,
Thanks for all your videos, I find them fascinating! In your drifting do you pay much attention to the plants in the area? If the ancient people that were there lived off of farming would there still be a chance of some of the crops still growing? Volunteer corn or squash or something?
Nice find 👌
I don't know if this is the same group of people but you should find TH-cam videos of people discussing mound builders who once lived on the North American continent. A very fascinating history indeed.
I`m a fairly new fan/subscriber. Thankyou for the videos. Really cool! I`m always venturing off the beaten path exploring. I was wondering if you could give us some idea of where your exploring. North, south, west or east of state for example. Thankyou!
Thanks for tuning in. I leave the areas ambiguous out of a desire not to bring attention to a specific area. Unfortunately there are people (small in number, but enough), who would go to these sites and take artifacts, leave graffiti, etc. I'm torn between offering more interesting and insightful info about where I'm at, with the desire to keep these fragile places protected.
@@Desert.Drifter I appreciate that you don't reveal the location where you are exploring!
No problem I understand.@@Desert.Drifter
I get why you don’t say the exact spot you’re at but maybe a state? AZ, UT are you in Hawaii. It’s nice to hear where these people called home. Love the videos
Thanks for tuning in. I leave the areas ambiguous out of a desire not to bring attention to a specific area. Unfortunately there are people (small in number, but enough), who would go to these sites and take artifacts, leave graffiti, etc. I'm torn between offering more interesting and insightful info about where I'm at, with the desire to keep these fragile places protected. It's still a work in progress...
I’d love to at least know the state, and even better the quadrant (ie. NW AZ). I applaud you not wanting to get too specific to protect the site
Could be New Mexico around the Malpais area.
Time & civilization are relative. In one eastern Turkish farm town I visited the current downtown was 400 yrs old, the warehouses 800 yrs old and still used, the Roman ruins just up the hill 2,000 yrs old. The valley itself has been farmed for 7,000 yrs.
Looks like the apartment type complex at Tuzigute. That was a Sinagua culture center in the Verde Valley that is now part of the Park Service, and was excavated and rebuilt in the 1930s. As well as Montezuma’s Castle, an apartment complex, also in the Verde Valley administrated by the Park Service
A ruin in the Jemez Mountains is rumored to have been three stories tall. The pile you have shown is not different. Not saying it’s proof. Think about what a busy place. Two or three stories tall, people doing different things, children, and old people. So many pots and broken pieces. Every single piece part of a pot, jar, jug. Hand crafted and used. Each item needed for a purpose and broken.
Looks like a small settlement of a dozen people and that little area away from the big area is probably where the animals were kept.
Either way it's a nice find and possible treasure buried nearby as well.
If you do it digital on that site it will show what that structure would look like which would be really cool.
Pottery was traded between tribes and with other peoples. When a tribe was raided by another tribe many times everything was destroyed by the attacking tribe. Also there may be kilns in the area. Sometimes they were not fancy kilns.
Thanks, I must look into where the volcanoes were!
I always think how things like this pottery show how intrinsically art is linked to humanity. Life would’ve been difficult and there was no practical need to decorate those pots as far as we know and yet people took the time and energy to do it. Where there is man there is creativity.
Well said, I appreciate thoughtful comments like this. Thank you!
Great videos. Thanks so much for showing us places that most of us will never see in person. I wouldn’t touch the pot sherds, though - my grandfather said the artifacts carry deep sorrow from the ancients, and nobody needs that kind of energy.
Very Cool!
Just another place I'm never going to go - - - thanks for taking this old man along with you
Some of the rock structures may be raised planting plots. The rock walls hold heat in the soil, allowing for a longer growing season.
Making pottery involves a fair amount of work; digging the clay, grinding it to a powder, mixing it with water, shaping the pot, gathering wood to fire it and the actual firing. Since clay pots were essential in their lives it is not surprising that they would expend the energy necessary to perform these tasks in order to make basic pots. However, finding and preparing the pigments and then applying them as superfluous decoration to the pots would seem to indicate that perhaps the extra effort was made in order to increase their value in trade or maybe like us they just wanted to enrich their lives with some art. Since the meticulous decorations seen on the shards take considerable time to produce I would think it fair to assume that the people who made these pots had some leisure time available and used some of that time for creative purposes.
Hi Desert Drifter!!!
I enjoy your videos, You are a compliment to your fields of interest.
I am no professional in the field of anthropology, or archeology.. but , if I may, offer some theory, from my perspectives..
I bet if that mound, or mounds were excavated, you would find bodies.
From your aerial view, you can almost see where the head and the rest of the body as decayed collapsed,
Why is the pottery always broken into pieces? do you ever find intact pottery?
Amazing
I love watching your videos
Thank you for watching!
I watch these "found on Google Earth videos a lot and it seems there's lots of pottery shards everywhere. I wonder if these areas were attacked by enemies who destroyed the stores of food which were in pottery. That would answer the question as to why the buildings are so demolished as well.
Tribes migrated to the same areas over a year. Pottery was made out of what was available at each site. This occurred over 700-1,000 years so there are tons of shards out there. Carrying water and other consumables get dropped and broken. I'm likely to break a cup or glass several times a year so that's a lot of shards over a lifetime. Mine go to the trash dump in a plastic bag so it will still be there in a thousand years, yike!
Furnace for fireing pottery.
When I lived in New Mexico I'd climb to the top of mesas where it would be impossible to walk without stepping on pottery. It was awesome.
It was wetter when they were farming there. I wonder if its possible to tell where the fields were.
is there any ongoing archaeology and better understanding of the rise and fall?
Does anyone else ask; '...what was used to paint the designs found on the pottery?' It's probably an obvious substance but I'm curious as to which substance would create the black coloration found in many of the shards seen on this trek to an ancient community, anyone know the answer?