All ancient kivas are associated with the practice of cannibalism.

Here in the UK we have Tea Rooms, doors not so much.

If you wanted to enter or exit with a bow or atlatl, this would be a great design. It doesn't weaken the structure as much as a huge door. Easier to block off with two pieces and allows you to fire over the top. These ex spurts talk too much.

A great presentation!! Thank you!

I'm watching this on a day when, in reading Craig Childs' HOUSE OF RAIN, I came to a page on which he recounts his reconnection with Susan Ryan. With them, I am moving through the site that Susan was about to return to the earth!

Aho Yatehey! Tachankpee Hotanka 🐃🏞

Or... It’s a multifunctional practical design feature, which also held social, historical and/or spiritual meaning. It’s an opening with seats. By closing off the narrow bottom section the T shape serves as a window, when fully open it‘s a door which securely holds a ladder in place, allowing backpacks and pole mounted, shoulder carried balanced baskets, buckets and jars to be easily handed off during construction and for future ease of use for resupplying the structure without traversing a crowded interior. Also creates a practical solution for additional ventilation and in cliff dwellings the ability of lowering materials to all parts of the structure from above more effectively and safely. For defense it provides the perfect cross section of viewing and launching projectiles onto attacking forces, while also being an access and/or escape route, using rope ladders attached to a pole. Large exterior and interior T-Doors can provide seating and shade for guards, while constricting entrance. 🤷‍♂️ 👣🕊👽

I can't quite accept archeology done by BYU, given their efforts to make the Book of Mormon real.

What a great presentation. Thank you!

A Navaho Elder on you tube says Chaco was not a good place. It was known as a place of tears. Many Dene people were enslaved and made to build these places. When they left this place, they smashed the pottery, etc.

I wonder if the shape provides greater air flow. It may have originated as less of a meaningful structure and more as a way to provide cooling breezes throughout the interior. They clearly took on a meaning of status with the impressive size of the larger T-Doors, but even those may have been to allow greater airflow into larger structures where it would diffuse through main halls, and rooms.

They remind me of the circular pit structures in front of the step pyramids of Caral in Peru, the oldest site of it's type in the Americas I believe.

They are also found in Peru, the Chachapoyas built very similar cliff dwellings with T shaped doors. Could be a connection. It would seem to me that the hole above the T doors could be to continue filling the granary above the door level perhaps. This short video is interesting kzbin.info/www/bejne/raqZY4yFe9V6bbc

Let kids and small dogs run free.

T shape is from the SW,we don’t know why, there seem in Mexico. It took an hour to say this

Does a 'T' door add anything to structural integrity helping to stabilize the construction?

Lekson describes some "T" doors as great big and big w/o saying just exactly how big. How about some actual dimensions?

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I wonder about the northern exposure for winter occupation Also, the odd shaped hearthe site might be an outdoor hearth Very normal to have an inside and outside fire space

It would be interesting to compare data from objects mapped at Must Farm with what T Surovel compiled in his work with the Durkha

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@ 45:57 they look like seats, you can sit at the entrance and have a chit chat

If the T-doors represent a serpent's head, perhaps the hole above them represents an egg, as it does at serpent mound. The "egg", BTW, represents the island of Aztlan, as this was its shape.

How about T-doors offer nothing more than a convenient place to sit?

My opinion T Shaped doors were first used as practice advantage. After all the purpose of adooris to "block out" .. the LESS surface area they need to block out the better! .. the bottom 2 and half feet of door space is normally only going t have 2 LEGS in it. Up higher you maybe carrying a basket of something, so more room is needed .. On the farm where I grew up my mom had a saying "Do not come in empty handed!" .. If nothing else there is always frewood to carriny in! :) .. I can easily imagine moms of the ancient Southwest had similar saying! :) <3

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Honour it and go beyond it ❤❤❤

These kivas were used for water storage

Is the "T" A SLOT for the pole, with the stairs cut into it, or is the "T" representative for Tatonka ?

A suggestion the speaker seems to have his face full size about half the time and does not leave the slides up long enough It's best when the slides are full size but most of the time WWE have the gentleman taking 40% of the screen. Best wished and thankyou for videos

Megalithic T-structures are found in a huge circle at Gobekli Tepe in Anatolia, T-structures are also found in Peru, Egypt and Israel. Ovens in the shape of a T portray some female entity/Goddess in the Balkans. The solid T's almost always have a dot in the upper middle of the “T”. It has been hypothesized to represent a stylized birth canal, with the growing embryo/seed at the top.

Love the Crow Canyon archaeological center. I haven’t seen this one yet. I hope some of you awesome people from the West Coast will come help us out on the East Coast. We’re just destroying all kinds of stuff here.

accurate. deep. Interesting. Thanks to my research on Coronado Expedition I came here and literally "drank it all down to the details". Great lesson. thanks from Italy.

Enigma ulteriore la presenza di porte a T in Italia.

The art piece with the red blouse, I have her in a glazed ceramic piece, sitting, neck and head straight, looking up. ("Woman in Pink Blouse", Albq NM)about 12'" square..... Sits with my other pieces of 4 corners type pottery, arrowheads, Mesa Verde cups ....

Could it be these "roads" were actually vectors modeling some sort of 3 dimensional geometry?

If your a Chief, you have a very big headdress full of feathers, how are you going to get thru the door it is not shaped like a T

HeY! Sook Knee! lol So beautiful.

Subterranean house cool in hot summer And warm in cold winter. Fairly simple. Year-round work in outdoor workshops, Man cave & She shed, etc

I'm 63 years old. I was raised in a hogan. I slept on a sheep skin and ran early dawn. I ate rabbit, prairie dogs and commodity food. I went to boarding school. The only time we come home was on Christmas vacation and school out. Life wasn't easy.

Their birds could sit on the T door ledges and greet visitors.

"Qui va" means "who goes" in French. As in "Who goes there?" As in - the people who went there, "qui va", were the members of the secret societies. The history of the French has been largely erased by the British and other cultures. But place names and words in a lot of Native languages (all over the world actually...) trace back to French and Spanish. "Nez Perce" tribe in Canada - Nez Perce means "Pierced Nose". "Dene" means "of the nose". I'm not sure if it refers to actual nose piercings, or if their "perfume" and bug repellant etc... offended the noses of Europeans, and the words refer to how they could smell them and their villages.

Brilliant analysis

Over 12 minutes for program to start

Amazing video thanks for sharing!

What only five responses? Lesson is an iconoclast, really shook up the staid world of Archeology, a scientist whose voice I respect and agree with. Esp as regards trade, power, and communication lines w Meso American city states. I read him while tramping thru Bears Ears, wonderful to read his insights while the starts shown down thru the Pondos upon me.

But the " T" shape door or window is found all around the world in antiquity.

This is not archaeology. This is white people buying stuff.

Those are not all roads. More like paths towards the Holy Mountains. They have so many I forget them all now. 4-7 is the usual, as they are sacred numbers. They did not consider the mountains homes for the gods. Mt. Graham is a Holy Mtn. b/c it's where the hero twins killed the monsters and flung them against the mountain where they died.

You never enter a building/home/hogon etc...directly. You walk around it clockwise, and when you get to the entrance, you announce yourself and ask permission to enter. When you exit, you exit right to complete the clockwise circle. It is also taboo to block the door. Only a rug can be hung over it. This is so The Holy People can enter. Usually this is during a idk..prayer session, a talk with the Holy People etc...Whatever they are gathered together for, there is a specific sand drawing for it. It's funny but not these days. The elder men will go in and then anyone remember the pattern for this or that? Sometimes the Holy People will help, give advice etc...but often they don't and you find out later, they did answer. It's the same as with praying to GOD. It's all the same, just diff. terms and methods. WORLDWIDE. I can tell you one thing. You will NEVER get the full TRUTH out of the Dineh. There's a reason for that. At Chaco for sure, the Parks Dept. will NOT ALLOW the truth to be told as to what happened there. This is direct from a Dineh Navajo 3rd generation medicine man and storyteller Dr. Don Mose Jr. Also, Most, especially the young, In Dineh it means "Those who do things different", NOT ANCIENT ENEMY. Anasazi came from the south. They can't be ancestors. The Dineh themselves, in oral tradition ..consistently says they came from the EAST. always from the east. There's a whole story about the journey. Maybe ages ago they came from the Alaska region, after and only after traveling across Canada, down the east coast and back across the central USA. They say they saw the big river and cross it, came to a sea of grass for as far as one could see. They passed many diff. peoples, but all similar to them in their beliefs and ways. THey made camp at the edge of the plains in the panhandle of Tx. Oklahoma and SW Kansas. Sent scouts out. When the scouts returned, they packed up and continued their journey west to their "forever home" THey used those roads for travel, trade and had outposts with water stored for those coming along who need it. They were also for the Holy People. The 4 directions are a sacred thing. Every ceremony starts with an offering of corn pollen or meal, in every direction but East. The Holy People are from the east. The Sun rise. All doors align to the east to face the first rays of life giving sun. They did not worship the sun tho. Why you won't ever get the truth(multiple reasons, betrayal is one), is b/c many, if not most Dineh, don't even know their own language or how to use it properly. The words mean something and each word can have diff. meanings, depending on how they are used. LIKE...ANASAZI was the name given to those people, by the Dineh when the Dineh arrived. The Dineh lived within the Anasazi lands for 1k yrs. Dr. Mose has 2k yrs of Oral Tradition for not only his people the Dineh, but also the last 1k yrs of the "Anasazi" who in the end "lost their way" as he says. It was the Anasazi who called the Dineh "Navajo", it means Field people or people of the field b/c they worked the fields obviously. IT IS THE ZUNI language that Anasazi means Ancient Ones. Maybe that was the Hopi language. I don't have my notes right here of course. The Dineh would never go near Chaco, They called it The House of Crying. The "Anasazi" were violent, not peaceful. The practiced sorcery, mocked the gods, were SLAVE TRADERS/HOLDERS. People came from other tribes, to become Dineh. Who were a peaceful people. War was always a last resort. Violence of any kind could get you removed from the tribe and many did have to go off on their own and according to him, prob joined other groups with rule they could live by. The Dineh are a mixed tribe. Not pure Dineh is what I mean. SOme are, many aren't. Their clans came from the CLiff Dwellers and Anasazi who fled the madness at Chaco. The Cannibalism didn't begin until the last few hundred yrs of the Anasazi's existence. While many survived and just fled to the cliffs and mountains, built structures up in the cliffs to hide their food and selves b/c the Anasazi constantly raided their food stores. No one around, like the Anasazi. They were considered evil people. There is no MYSTERY about CHACO, YOU JUST DONT KNOW THE TRUTH. Thank THe Parks Dept. or your GOV. The Gambler, I know a story about that. The Gambler showed up at Chaco, and quickly they became addicted to gambling. So much so that they began to offer up their wives and children. Well they captured several Dineh. A young man went to the Anasazi wanting to gamble for his people back, or they get him if he loses. Well of course he wins and brings his ppl back. He is forever a hero in Dineh legends. The Betrayal: I believe it was The Hopi who allowed a man from the Smithsonian to film one of their sacred ceremonies. The agreement was that he would not make it public, publish it etc...well HE DID and they found out. From then on, tribal folk say there is some knowledge we will not tell. You see what happens. It gets twisted and looked at from modern mans view of the world. They think they know our history better than us. They can take our lives, language, customs and ways, but they can never take what's stored in your head. THis is why ORAL TRADITION IS IMPORTANT. It's not a game of telephone either. Just like you know the lyrics to thousands of songs. Oral tradition is the same. It's always done in the form of song/chant. It starts with a young child who shows great memory. They daily they are taught, for their entire lives. Even one of the elderly Dineh Historians says they old people choose what to share with him. He is elderly lol. Yet considers these ppl as the elders. So even he doesn't have all the knowledge of the Dineh. He holds the "official" story the gov. allows to be heard about the Navajo. Not what their true history is. Also, the good Dr. says the spiral petroglyph represents a portal. This is where I have to stop. I can not share the rest of the story. It's very Biblical in nature. It's all in the book "On the Path of the Immortals" by Dr. Thomas Horn. You want talk of Giants, cannibalism, Nephilim. The roads confused the demons, ya know...which way did they go