Colorado Experience: Living West: Water

[@stimpdog53]

Born and raised in Denver, I'm rediscovering areas of Colorado that I may have missed out on after moving on. This series has opened my eyes to many facts, situations, and events that I never knew existed. Thank you RMPBS!

[@rahkinrah1963]

I live on the Western Slope. I have visited Mesa Verde three times for multiple days...and have been in awe every time.

[@markdezuba]

The Park Service has closed visitation to Mesa Verde structures for over two years now. I go there a couple times a year. Disgrace to Park Service.

[@granskare]

We have visited Mesa Verde but it was really crowded so we stood back. We also have people who collected things.

[@mariekatherine5238]

I was at Mesa Verde in 1969 as a child. It was fascinating. I thought the original people’s spirits were still there and tried to act respectfully as I entered the buildings.

[@Child_of_Amun]

It’s kinda looks like the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali. The architecture is similar to that of the Dogon.

[@vincentconti3633]

It is also very similar to Pueblos still occupied here in Peru!

[@NeighborhoodBasketCase]

Imagine how much water we waste on lawns alone each year, yet they were able to survive off so little. We could learn a lot from them!

[@trex7168]

awesome

[@paulsuprono7225]

Had no shortage of water, on the slopes of the Collegiate Peaks, above Leadville . . . in the dead of winter. Was up there for 20 days with Outward Bound, skiing cross country, with a load that was needed to exist . . . out in the wild for that time. And believe me, trekking at 8,000 feet daily was a challenge . . . on a daily basis, even more so for those from a much lower altitude. Outward Bound tested our limits . . . both physiological and psychological ! 🇺🇸

[@granskare]

if some of the towers were defensive, who were they defending against?

[@rahkinrah1963]

Their neighbors!

[@57WillysCJ]

There was a influx of tribes coming down from the north. The Athabascan peoples of the north were moving slowly but surely south. The Apache people were quite wide spread well into the 18th century. They had people as far north as South Dakota. The Fremont culture was parallel to the Mesa Verde peoples. They disappeared close to 1000 so what ever made them leave probably started the the downward turn. Of course that could be why the Athabascan peoples were moving south. Pretty close on the collapse of the northern Pueblo people was the down turn of the Mississippian Culture. It was contracting by the middle of the 14th century.

[@winterhorse8463]

Dimocraps!! Always gotta guard against them boogers!!

[@BobLoblawbob]

A lovely, beautiful culture. They made nice pots, ate quash, maze, wild turkeys..oh and in the 1,200's-some ate their children. Why no mention of that giant pit in Arizona, discovered in early 2000's, filled with bones of more than 50 Ancestral Puebloans children that had been cooked and eaten. Best stay high up in the cliffs iffin word gets out you've been munching on yer little ones. Fragility, insecurity?

[@TheBandit7613]

They also ate each other. They left behind indian "crap" with human dna markers. They were not as peaceful and nice as we have been led to believe.

[@markdezuba]

There is so much evidence of cannibalism within southwest Indian culture. They weren't the peaceful culture you've been taught.

[@alexbennie5603]

Yeah and European royalty are people all the way into the 16th and 16th century. What is this?

[@DillardDenton-qu4winds]

Imagine before metals were being stripped from is sources, stones would be cannon balls , who would do all the grinding, turkey is not native

[@billhillify4924]

…go listen to Steve Lekson for a realistic understanding on Chaco, Aztec, and Mesa Verde

[@joelamthach5812]

… actually settlers came in and wiped out the locals and got to use those water resources 😢😮

[@granskare]

Future generations will invent Time Machines so they can go back to observe things.

[@DillardDenton-qu4winds]

This was prisoners of war building comfort for the others to the claimed, to create the masonry is not period as indians did not care of what shape its window is

[@chrisfurney]

The men had to hunt, fish, and fight. The women did all the work. And the white men thought they could improve on that.

[@danielwilde5582]

Maybe a wildfire destroyed the landscape

[@DillardDenton-qu4winds]

Wildfires are set to purposely locate ruins,