What does a T Door do? Limit access to feet, while providing clearance to limbs. Jars, goods, Spears can all be passed or handked easily from inside, but animals will think twice about entering. Sturdy enough to protect, yet still accessible to elderly bipeds. Probably also has thermo regulation/airflow qualities. Similary concept used today. "door split in half horizontally is called a Dutch door, half door, or double-hung door." Good way to keep dogs out and deter big cats.
@ziply12324 күн бұрын
I think about the broken pot shards and wonder if this is the remnant of one of those ceremonies where people make a wish for the future or discard the resentments, disappointments, etc., of the old year... And perhaps the presence of decorative and utility pot shards reflects the socio-economic strata of the wishers/discarders.
@bradhubbard660927 күн бұрын
T door so you can walk right through and not go in sideways. Also so a person can carry a big jug of water in.
@nancyrae7941Ай бұрын
Not "costumes." Regalia is a specific honoring. Also, there is very little discussion here about the overlap with SE Athapaskan families that are modernly known as descendants within the Jicarilla Apache Nation.
@WildernessquestoutdoorsАй бұрын
The skill required in Folsoms is not breaking it when you’re using your tree jig. Besides that pretty easy to make
@TimMurphy-q5vАй бұрын
Too long to start.
@susanbroadstreet70772 ай бұрын
Very interesting content leading to fascinating concept putting ancient people into the site. Speaker handsome too. Third talk I've watched by him this week.
@docho49132 ай бұрын
Your research is great I recently heard the Fremont people’s name and wanted to know more about them Thanks
@peggygibson30123 ай бұрын
Wow!!
@user-rw1ox1kl2p3 ай бұрын
I wish Lekson could break out of his biased perceptions. Whether he’s right or wrong it doesn’t matter.
@enlightenedhummingbird47643 ай бұрын
It's directing us to the ladie's restroom...😅😂
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
I thought that was the whole outside?
@danoelrich24993 ай бұрын
How about this? You can insert a square slab in the top of the T. And a tiny one in the bottom. This would allow for various amounts of circulation. Like being able to open a window part way. In Winter you might leave the main slab in, while having just a small opening at the bottom, for ventilation. That would retain heat. I’d really like an expert to comment on this possibility. Thanks.
@enlightenedhummingbird47643 ай бұрын
Hey, that's an interesting idea! Makes sense. Especially with the circular venthole at top... In order for smokey or stale air to exit, there must be fresh air coming in somewhere.
@josephpashka73694 ай бұрын
One aspect about this presentation about Kivas not mentioned much is just how brutal the winters are in the northern half of New Mexico. The locals adapted well, and evolved an architecture that took frigid winters & harsh summer heat in stride. Smart people.
@Truthagainsttheworld84304 ай бұрын
I think the suggestion concerning a large ornate headdress is worth looking into. Thanks for the presentation.
@sixeses4 ай бұрын
RIP Professor Stuart Struever
@thorn24974 ай бұрын
🤔💭one practical purpose for the doorway is that it's for your hands to rest on when you're entering/exiting. It's much easier to get in & out this way. Go try it! You will see! (Just don't try it on ancient ruins🤦🏼♂️) As for the symbolism, ask the people who did it, not the ones who found it!
@brit03095 ай бұрын
Wiener 🤣
@peterb.5595 ай бұрын
I came across a web site where someone suggests the possibility that T-shaped doors are related to I-shaped ballcourts at ancient sites in Mexico.
@derekpmoore5 ай бұрын
All ancient kivas are associated with the practice of cannibalism.
@stevehead3655 ай бұрын
Here in the UK we have Tea Rooms, doors not so much.
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
Sounds like something a tea-bagger would say.
@redtobertshateshandles6 ай бұрын
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.
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
It's for carrying in the refrigerator and the washing machine.
@robhead227 ай бұрын
A great presentation!! Thank you!
@sarahantin21067 ай бұрын
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!
@ElRayDelRio7 ай бұрын
Aho Yatehey! Tachankpee Hotanka 🐃🏞
@PeaceProfit7 ай бұрын
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. 🤷♂️ 👣🕊👽
@danoelrich24993 ай бұрын
This is my thinking too!
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
Guards? Why not just close the door and latch it?
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
@@PeaceProfit I think you might have smoke inhalation.
@PeaceProfit8 күн бұрын
Those who think they are offending others, with callous words and actions, are simply offending themselves for all to witness... 👣🕊👽
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
@@PeaceProfit PeaceProfit? Your offense is self inflicted. Also, your guess is wrong.
@garybowler59467 ай бұрын
I can't quite accept archeology done by BYU, given their efforts to make the Book of Mormon real.
@robhead227 ай бұрын
What a great presentation. Thank you!
@kellykelly77477 ай бұрын
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.
@evelynlamoy84838 ай бұрын
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.
@enlightenedhummingbird47643 ай бұрын
My thoughts, too.
@brett-lothian9 ай бұрын
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.
@brett-lothian9 ай бұрын
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
@chesterfinecat75889 ай бұрын
Let kids and small dogs run free.
@aldavissghost97249 ай бұрын
T shape is from the SW,we don’t know why, there seem in Mexico. It took an hour to say this
@jerryglasgow886210 ай бұрын
Does a 'T' door add anything to structural integrity helping to stabilize the construction?
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
No. It forces a larger header log to be required for the greater load of the longer span.
@jerryglasgow886210 ай бұрын
Lekson describes some "T" doors as great big and big w/o saying just exactly how big. How about some actual dimensions?
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
"Big" is bigger than "Not that Big", and definitely alot bigger than "Small".
@johnclark161210 ай бұрын
COVID expedition
@marcsimard272310 ай бұрын
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
@marcsimard272310 ай бұрын
It would be interesting to compare data from objects mapped at Must Farm with what T Surovel compiled in his work with the Durkha
@callen.637110 ай бұрын
Treck planner brought me here!
@Anthony-qg3qo11 ай бұрын
@ 45:57 they look like seats, you can sit at the entrance and have a chit chat
@JamesMichael33310 ай бұрын
Thats not what they were
@jimhamman233511 ай бұрын
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.
@JeffinBville11 ай бұрын
How about T-doors offer nothing more than a convenient place to sit?
@MikeBaxterABC11 ай бұрын
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
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
It's more work to make it that way. There's an old Chaco saying, "Don't carry in a basket that won't fit through the door". Words of wisdom.
@contempl8ive11 ай бұрын
Trek Planner sent me!
@JMYaden11 ай бұрын
Honour it and go beyond it ❤❤❤
@theaquaexpansionproject1111 Жыл бұрын
These kivas were used for water storage
@loril.mangold8160 Жыл бұрын
Is the "T" A SLOT for the pole, with the stairs cut into it, or is the "T" representative for Tatonka ?
@zipperpillow8 күн бұрын
I think the "T" stands for "terrible idea".
@jeffbybee5207 Жыл бұрын
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
@jeffbybee5207 Жыл бұрын
And he frequently is pointing out things of intrest on slides after he has turned the illustration off
@lbrowning2543 Жыл бұрын
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.
@FacesintheStone Жыл бұрын
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.
@FacesintheStone Жыл бұрын
32:05 top left you can see the eyehole and the face. The carved faces on the stones- first I would look for the birds because those are easier to see. Before paper, books, stone was the media for storing media. At first, I showed the archaeologist what look like just rocks, and then I found of the most defined ones and they still deny it-perhaps you could advise?
@FacesintheStone Жыл бұрын
33:39 the emblems in red are what I see here in North Carolina as well. They are tribal emblems, and are not a type of animal or anything. It’s like a letter.
@FacesintheStone Жыл бұрын
What I’m here to tell you is that there is a complicated, multi facet style of art within the stones that goes unrecognized until you study for three or four weeks. The way to learn it is complete immersion, keep them all on your kitchen counter, and in your common areas.
@FacesintheStone Жыл бұрын
37:29 this guy knows, you know. Do you know how in India that I have that blue God with six arms? It doesn’t have six arms, those are only the poses of the dance. This is so frustrating trying to share ancient indigenous art- We should’ve recognized it a very long time ago. If you know, then we have to teach other people. There’s no possible way that some people just are so dense that they cannot understand or learn this. It’s about making people care. Things like the fish with the bear, figuring out the puzzles. That is what it’s going to get the public attention. Keep doing this!!! I love it 41:21 I use the Dstretch on my phone. It’s incredible.
@FacesintheStone Жыл бұрын
44:22 sorry last comment! This is great, and I’m really enjoying the video. you will find that the petroglyphs are painted on top of the older carvings. People used to stand on the side of these mountains and sand them down to create an image. Later people came around and respected the site unlike us. They put their own art on top of the old art. I want you to be able to see the old art. It is the key to understanding human consciousness.