Showing posts with label Anasazi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anasazi. Show all posts
Monday, May 17, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Bandelier National Monument
There are lots of Anasazi ruins in and around NM, but my favorite isn't the famous Mesa Verde, it is Bandelier National Monument.There are many reasons it is my favorite, but the number one reason is that it is in the Jemez Mountains which is probably my favorite area in all of NM. I will no doubt talk more about Jemez in the future.
Whenever someone is visiting New Mexico I send them to Bandelier (sometimes I go with them) and I have yet to have anyone be disappointed. Sure they could make the long drive to Mesa Verde, but they could be at Bandelier in about 2 hours.
What do you get once you are there? Beautiful surrounding mountains, lots of wildlife such as mule deer, a nice little hike, a really cool kiva, cliff ruins, valley ruins and painted cave.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Anasazi - Ancient Migration - A Pueblo Mystery
Perched on a lonesome bluff above the dusty San Pedro River, about 30 miles east of Tucson, the ancient stone ruin archaeologists call the Davis Ranch Site doesn’t seem to fit in. Staring back from the opposite bank, the tumbled walls of Reeve Ruin are just as surprising. Some 700 years ago, as part of a vast migration, a people called the Anasazi, driven by God knows what, wandered from the north to form settlements like these, stamping the land with their own unique style.
“Salado polychrome,” says a visiting archaeologist turning over a shard of broken pottery. Reddish on the outside and patterned black and white on the inside, it stands out from the plainer ware made by the Hohokam, whose territory the wanderers had come to occupy.
More at --Anasazi - Ancient Migration - A Pueblo Mystery - New York Times
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Ancient Bigfoot Wars: The Americas
Lisa Shiel contemplates ancient Anasazi cliff dwellings. Were they hiding from Bigfoot? With signs that villages had been burned to the ground, along with evidence of cannibalism it seems that maybe there was a lot to make people want to hide up in the cliffs where they could see what was coming. That aside there are plenty ground settlements near there that were lived in at that time.
Backyard Phenomena: Ancient Bigfoot Wars: The Americas
Backyard Phenomena: Ancient Bigfoot Wars: The Americas
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Aztec UFO Conference 2008
In just a little over 2 months, on March 28-30, Aztec will be holding it's annual UFO conference. The speakers this year will be:
Stan Friedman
Frank Warren
Timothy Good
Ted Phillips
Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.
Dennis Balthaser ( emcee )
Scott Ramsey
Ken Storch
James P. Carrion
James Fox (pending schedule)
I haven't ever attended this conference, but I have been to Aztec many times. Aside from the conference there are many other reasons to go. Aztec has some truly wonderful ruins, right there in town. The Aztec Ruin were built around 1100 A.D. and contained over 500 rooms, along with a 40' diameter Kiva. The Kiva has been reconstructed and looks as it would have in 1100.
If you stay a day or two longer, or just have a lot of free time at the conference it is also just a couple hour drive from Aztec across the border into Colorado to Mesa Verde National Park. The Anasazi Ruins at Mesa Verde were built around 1200 A.D. and were active until around 1300 A.D., there are over 600 cliff dwellings at the site.
Still have more time and aren't sick of Anasazi ruins yet? Don't hold me to it, check your map, but I believe Chaco Canyon National Monument is also only a couple hours away. I have never driven there from Aztec and don't have a map handy, but I think that is right. Chaco was built around 850 A.D. and occupied until around 1250. I came across some interesting articles about Chaco here. Apparently NASA had interest in it and did some Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanning of the area. They were trying to figure out "Why were the Chaco roads designed with exacting linearity, which surmounted any topographic obstruction, built to a width of 20 feet or more, and constructed by people who did not even employ beast of burden in their lives?" I could probably come up with some sort of Hoaglandish conspiracy about that, but I will hold myself back this time. :-)
Stan Friedman
Frank Warren
Timothy Good
Ted Phillips
Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.
Dennis Balthaser ( emcee )
Scott Ramsey
Ken Storch
James P. Carrion
James Fox (pending schedule)
I haven't ever attended this conference, but I have been to Aztec many times. Aside from the conference there are many other reasons to go. Aztec has some truly wonderful ruins, right there in town. The Aztec Ruin were built around 1100 A.D. and contained over 500 rooms, along with a 40' diameter Kiva. The Kiva has been reconstructed and looks as it would have in 1100.
If you stay a day or two longer, or just have a lot of free time at the conference it is also just a couple hour drive from Aztec across the border into Colorado to Mesa Verde National Park. The Anasazi Ruins at Mesa Verde were built around 1200 A.D. and were active until around 1300 A.D., there are over 600 cliff dwellings at the site.
Still have more time and aren't sick of Anasazi ruins yet? Don't hold me to it, check your map, but I believe Chaco Canyon National Monument is also only a couple hours away. I have never driven there from Aztec and don't have a map handy, but I think that is right. Chaco was built around 850 A.D. and occupied until around 1250. I came across some interesting articles about Chaco here. Apparently NASA had interest in it and did some Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanning of the area. They were trying to figure out "Why were the Chaco roads designed with exacting linearity, which surmounted any topographic obstruction, built to a width of 20 feet or more, and constructed by people who did not even employ beast of burden in their lives?" I could probably come up with some sort of Hoaglandish conspiracy about that, but I will hold myself back this time. :-)
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