Chaco is Aztlan in my opinion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The skill required in Folsoms is not breaking it when you’re using your tree jig. Besides that pretty easy to make

Too long to start.

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.

Your research is great I recently heard the Fremont people’s name and wanted to know more about them Thanks

Wow!!

I wish Lekson could break out of his biased perceptions. Whether he’s right or wrong it doesn’t matter.

It's directing us to the ladie's restroom...😅😂

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.

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.

I think the suggestion concerning a large ornate headdress is worth looking into. Thanks for the presentation.

RIP Professor Stuart Struever

🤔💭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!

Wiener 🤣

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.

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?

COVID expedition

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

Treck planner brought me here!

@ 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.