Google Earth led me to an amazing discovery in the desert
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.พ. 2023
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I found this a while ago on Google Earth and then explored it with my drone. Then last week, we were exploring in this area and decided to hike to it and see it up close. I'm so glad we did!
There are ruins in the area that were created by the Ancestral Pueblo between the years of 750-1000+ years ago. These are probably in the same category.
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I wouldn’t have minded if you took a few more minutes with the petroglyphs ⭐️
I took a lot of photos! I'm making a post on my website to post them all
Slow down with the camera 📷
Sorry, no time for website. Breathe deep, hold for 5 seconds, you have very good channel, so grow it.
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In the 60's my parents would take me out all over New Mexico on weekends. We would pick up agates, arrowheads, and wander as you are doing here. Now I am 75 and cannot walk long, besides living now in Italy. So I am enjoying what you are doing. There are so many undiscovered places there, and today you showed the carvings in the rocks. Nice. I saw you taking your son in one video, don't stop doing that. He will be old someday and remember fondly, even though he might complain now...kids!
These treks of yours have me captivated and amazed by the finds. My inner archeologist is so happy!
As a hunter who has hunted with bow and arrow (recurve and traditional), I can tell you that if this is a hunter's post....it's a starting point for a stalk. That is high ground that looks out over a vast space that cannot be covered by a traditional bow (think 50 yards max for a traditional bow for an experienced hunter). That is the blind from which he would start his stalk or direct his friends to stalk an animal.
What if they were using the ancient practice of driving animals up to these positions? I don't think you can just assume all hunting in the past was done exactly as it is today, because that's not true at all. You have to know about the old hunting strategies to say it isn't hunting.
@@michaelrudolph7003 What if they weren't? No assumptions made except for Occam's Razor. But who knows. I'm sure it was used as a cabin, a hunting stand, a bathroom, a watch tower, etc.
But it's fun to think about.
I love that you just hike to a spot you found online. Best use of internet info. Thanks for sharing.
The pottery has been disturbed and placed there by other people, but if it truly is from that site, you can tell exactly what time period and who was using that site. I didn't get a good look at the pieces, but it looks like very early "stoneware". If you got a good look at the piece with the "waffle" like pattern, that could tell you a lot. I can tell you those were shards of a cooking pot, so you know someone camped there. Gonna go out on a limb and say the time period for those pieces is 900-1150 A.D.
I can't tell you the number of hours I spent digging up, identifying, and putting back together again pot sherds from dig sites back in the college days, then writing papers on it all.
I think what you guys are doing is really important and really cool.
Too many people don’t know or understand that there are Native American sites in all kinds of places that need to be preserved.
i know of a massive pottery spill along that ridge... hundreds of peices! im thinking it was eihter a dump or where they made pottery...
one of my favorite zones in UT... endless ruins petros and artifacts... also found a freshly dead massive elf in a cayon about a month ago in a canyon near the nroth end of the valley by a big (fishy) cave!... best guess it lost its footing and fell? wild to walk up on.... couldnt believe my eyes!
I love these adventures and the excitement you share through discovery. Longer videos would be my vote. Thank you for taking us with you!
That particular stack (near the end) of rocks looks modern to me. Look how different the stacking looks compared to other walls and stacks you’ve found. This was made for temporary use, hastily made, and not with the same skill and methods of the other ancient sites.
Good eye. The Quality varies from very nice to very sloppy, could be nomads versus high-quality spots for either crops or herd animals, places that you want to spend more time in. Note,: Animals migrate even if only 50 miles or so to a more protected tree area.fir winter.
I bow hunt with a traditional recurve bow, often using a blind to conceal my location, and to me that doesn't look like a place where you'd put a blind if you're hunting animals. The shot would be far too long for a clean ethical shot with a traditional wooden bow, imo (
As a life long hunter, among other stuff, I agree with your assessment. Defensive position. Possibly from bandits of the old west era?
Have either of you been on a drive. Some animals will circle around the tops of hills. You still have to have a hiding spot and hunting for a tribe of people so there would be more than a solitary hunter. Pushers would circle around and move the animals to you.
I've seen other videos where archeologists think similar ruins are defensive positions. The cliffside buildings, seen in other videos, were their last stand positions. It was an incursion of one group of indians into another group's area. The invading group eventually eliminated them.
@@rockheadmark2673 True
Not a hunter, but that is what I thought too. Well, without the detailed analysis. Just seemed that way, given all the natural hiding spots nearby.
Awesome Discovery, I’ve been using google earth lately to locate creeks to walk and look for arrowheads, I’ve really been enjoying your videos, Thanks For Sharing, GL&HH!!
That ridge is such a treasure, and that peak in particular is just spectacular. My initial interest in that area was the geology and landscape photo opportunities, but every time I hike in the area I can't help but be fascinated with all the ruins and rock art. Sweet video man 👍
Thank you for your comment! This place holds a special place in my heart too. The geology is incredible and something I'm learning more about with each visit
Awesome video, wish it was longer! I have looked at hundreds of petroglyphs, although I understand only a few of them, there are two in your video I recognize. At 1:57 there are two pecked out prints of a grizzly bear! It is very clear and easy to make out the foot pads, the toes and the claws. If you have ever seen a grizzly track in mud or show, you'll realize how similar they look to these petroglyphs. I have seen these many times at various places in Montana and Wyoming, really, really cool!! Thanks for the show!
Too funny! She said that the hunting blind was an ice cream stand. HAA!! I think it was too.
2:01 A counting system, like an abacus? 🤔
2:14 😂😂🤣🤣😎😎I swear, the humour MAKES these explores even more special! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Thanks friend for sharing that Outback explorative experience I love seeing it because I spent most my life kicking around in the bush looking over that next Hill
First time I've met Annie.
I'm glad you have a companion to share your adventures with.
Cheers Gray
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Thanks again for brining this to us in Michigan. We only get a chance to get out that way every 5 years or so. Thanks again for your extremally hard work.
Thanks again for all you're doing. I love watching 😊
Enjoyed the humor. Enjoyed the guest explorer's interaction. Keep on building this channel.
Thank you so much, Carl!
@@TheTrekPlanner Man dude -- your wife is a Treasure! Love her... ♡♡
I’m glad you found time to explore the area. These unpopular and more remote areas are my favorite kind of environments
You find place with lot's of ancient tresor 😍😍😍😉
Nicely done. I like the fact that you're not revealing the actual location but hopefully you are making note of them so that they can be catalogued/documented. I also like the fact that you keep these short and focus on the locations and not on yourself or the merchandise. And I'm curious as to whether you are working with an archaeologist whose specialty is the history/prehistory of the area. Thanks again. Cheers.
Vette the the people you give this location to. Research their background. Keep exploring.
Lovely find. There were 2 human figures in the petroglyphs that I have never seen outside Hawaii. Thanks for posting,
Howdy Jeff & Annie , yes, that’s definitely an “ice cream stand”, who kood resist the Prickly Pear fruit Slushy! I love it !
That was a really cool area. I enjoy seeing pottery from the different areas of the U.S. Most of the Native American sites in my area were destroyed in the late 1800s. I surface hunt the fields and creeks in my area saving arrowheads and other artifacts from being destroyed by the farming equipment. I’m really enjoying your videos and the shorts. Really makes me want to go out west again.
Southeast Missouri?
I live in the Bootheel.
@@gideoncampbell8335 yeah. Scott county.
Do you follow Ancient Pottery, here on TH-cam?
Thank you for all the work and content you make. It's great!! Really like the longer videos but enjoy the shorts too. ✌️👍
Thanks, K T! Trying to mix it up with both types 🙂
Is this area in southwest or southeastern utah?
Stone walls near ruins usually means the indigenous people (i believe) were trying to appear more profusely populated to the athebascan raiders that drove them to living in cliffs and hilltop dwellings...
The pile of pottery shards is a collector pile. This happens when pot collectors scour an area and put everything they find in an easily refindable place, come back later and take what they want and leave the rest. the big long petroglyph you glossed by is likely the most interestng.
Fabulous share and channel here friends see you again stay safe 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thankyou for sharing.
I did enjoy your video so much💚 You two are awesome! Loved the ice cream stand idea😂 Can you imagine how hot it gets out there in the summer? "Honey, let's go get an ice cream, it's hot today" 🤣👍
Some of these rock walls are old and probably built by native Americans. Look at the tightness of the stacking, careful and precise. Others are stacked loose with large holes, these are recent, they will fall down in a short time
So beautiful!
Always cool video,s
Love watching your explorations. Thank you!!
That’s why I like hiking here in Tucson you never know what you’ll find😊🌵😎
What a really cool find
Very cool!
Excellent finds. Thanks.
That is cool! What an adventure!
Okay, it's official... I'm hooked!
Cool!!
These built areas, are "Light houses " , people had places of light ( made by fire ), to help guide people traveling in the desert .
Very cool
I hope you have a good idea of how awesome it is to be able to watch your videos for people like me that are very interested in the content you cover, and the places you go, but couldn’t possibly go there ourselves👍👌👍👌👍👌
So cool
That was fascinating, and beautiful!
Wow! Another amazing post! I found you a few days ago and have watched a few and each one is amazing! ps In this post that does look like a ramp where the people filled in the gap with tons of stones. Thank you for a taking us along - especially for all of those that will never be able to go or hike there, for leaving the pottery and everything as is, for NOT disclosing the locations and for the great drone work! Best from Colorado!
Squatter man appears once again in the middle of nowhere. Great find.
❤ I absolutely love what you are doing. It is such a breath of fresh air.
It’s a lookout post for any scouting parties or enemies approaching. The view is clearly wide and far would definitely show anyone or ‘thing’ coming close. A runner could warn the tribe.
The geology is also interesting. Like it was mud that was frozen/cooked solid.
3:17 I especially like the small "observation window" half way up the blind
That is awesome! Loving this content waiting for the summer to go hiking myself. I it is very snowy here in Ural Mountains.
Props for leaving artifacts!
Great video!
cool stuff !
Excellent video
Neat site..I like how the pottery relics are laid out.
This is such a cool hobby!
Whenever you show things like this, I can’t help but think of how it could have been used as a wind block for a fire. And the wall would also radiate heat back into a fixed area meaning these would have been used in the colder months to keep people warm.
IMHO, the areas were too exposed to wind to be an area constructed as a fire location. Much better to tuck a fire in an area naturally protected by the rock formation. Also, I didn’t see any indications of blackened rock that a fire ‘probably’ would have left.
@@glasshalffull2930 I had thought about the burn residue as well. The only reasoning I could come up with as to why it wasn’t there would be weather.
Territory watch
Hide behind the rocks and shoot intruders.
nicely done
Amazing find. Congrats.
wow way cool
Cool thanx
This was awesome! Makes me want to go and explore the strange markings I found with the terrain filter on my local geological survey map 👀
Cool ty 🏆👴🐕🚜🤠
I love this channel so much.
An ice cream stand! I love it ; ] you guys rule~~~
Love the ice cream stand! 😆
I think it was too.
Thanks Jeff!
Brett from Redding cal. Love your finds! Similar finds going on in my area. So cool! Found a basalt scraper by a creek 30 years ago, been exploring ever since. Keep on posting!
I bet you can find amazing things around there. I was born and raised in Redding. My grandparents had a huge history of the Chinese and Indians in Igo
Your video,s are so good. Really!
Thank you, M B!
Great find! I’ve found blinds before.
They probably herded animals towards those rocks and hailed atlatl spears and boulders on top of them.👍That's a great hobby. Down here in central Mississippi, all we have left are dirt and sand mounds. If you find a mound, you can find the village. That's where you find pottery and heads.
Google maps helped me find Atlantis.. simply by following the directions given to us.. "Beyond the Pillars" + "In the Northern Portions & Along the Shore"... keeping in mind that ocean levels were at least ~100 meters lower 13000 years ago...
Those walls look like someone stacked them up last month.
I LOVE YOUR WORK, SO AWESOME! I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO CHECK OUT BLYTHE, CALIFORNIA...VERY STRANGE FORMATIONS TO THE WEST OF THE CITY.
I especially like your choice of subtle music. Enhances the experience.
Because people visit these sites, it has become impossible to separate what visitors have done from what ancient people did.
Amazing find! I hope the site has been studied and documented.
watched from Bryan,Tx
Thank you
Whispers "trek planner"! Funny stuff. Cool for sure. I also would enjoy just a bit slower and closer look at some of the markings.
Fortification? The rock pile wall would stop arrows (or later, bullets), and an enemy would have to climb under fire to confront the fighter stationed there. Or a look-out. Also, in winter the wall would serve as a wind break for a fighter or look-out stationed there.
I also believe it's a lookout. You could see people coming from miles away up there.
When I went to college in Colorado, I would spend my free time hiking around these Anasazi ruins in the Four Corners region. Hovenweep was my favorite.
3:01 I’m fascinated by the lichens, including a black crustose lichen, on the rock wall! So cool
Thanks 😊
Word o advice, get that done in some deep crags to find some ancient remains and other amazing finds, you got the perfect set uo
More like watching for two legged animals if I was guessing!
I watched a documentary a few years back about some ancient people's in the Southwest
Not too good at this I guess. To continue my comment above, the people in the documentary felt that a number of locations, similar to the one you highlighted, were used as lookout stations for identifying possible hostile groups approaching their feelings. They had actually mapped out numerous line of site watch stations. Perhaps there might be something similar at your location?
Fantastic video!
Please lower (or remove!) background music when you're talking. It makes it hard to focus on what you're saying.
I'm seriously wishing I could get out on adventures like this with you!
What a life guys
Petty cool!
I’m headed down to Arizona next week. Any suggestions for a day hike outside of Phoenix or Tucson? Thanks
A "Hunting Blind" that close to the "drop -off" into the canyon below? How about a "last-stand" "Defensive Position"?
Look out and hunting blinds. They were probably covered with wood and roof.👍Great vids👍
It must be incredibly exciting to live in an area that has all these things out there.
Wait when night falls . . .
I liked the triangle stone on the front of the blind.
I lived in Grand junction, Colorado for about 10 years, wish I did what you're doing, finding these ruins! But google earth didn't exist then either. Great video