You're good bro. I grew up in the desert southwest and am a professional geologist - walked around a lot out there. What I can tell you is 1) your google earth skills (yes there is skill to it) are next level 2) you are very good at seeing it in the field as well. Good job man. I'm jealous as I sit at my computer and you're out in the field.
@BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm Жыл бұрын
💯👍👁️
@someguy936 Жыл бұрын
I know you're worried about where you're stepping. But buddy, I don't think the cows are worried where they step.
@moonbeamstry5321 Жыл бұрын
I'm likewise extremely impressed with his Google earth skills. Like you said- it's genuinely next level jaw dropping good. (I'd be very interested to hear his thoughts about some of the Mars photos since he's proven his level of expertise). This content creator deserves a LOT more subs imo.
@carltuckerson7718 Жыл бұрын
I agree. I love this kind of stuff. and his proclivity for finding these ruins should turn into something more for him.
@seekingthetruth304 Жыл бұрын
I'm a Professional Geologist too. Lol In Cali.
@QuasiBlond Жыл бұрын
I love your videos. As a disabled person, you make it possible for me to visit and see things I physically could not manage. Your videos make my day. Heartfelt thanks to you.
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, Lin! I am truly happy and grateful you are part of my channel!!
@TheFaeryRing Жыл бұрын
I'm a quadriplegic & can COMPLETELY relate. I too get joy and feel as though I'm part of the adventure when I watch these videos.
@AfkaSound Жыл бұрын
Know that feeling my dude. Deffo not alone.
@BogusJNutherwebb-me6pn Жыл бұрын
I'm with you @QuasiBlond, nice to have this available to us.
@corneliusdinkmeyer219011 ай бұрын
Ditto! I can’t hike anymore because of my knees but it’s SO enjoyable when Jeff takes us along!
@proimageaz Жыл бұрын
My wife and I have been hired in the past to do plant surveys along planned power line routes. Others were hired to search for and map archeological sites. Sometimes what we found would cause the planned route to be changed. That could have been the case here. Did you look down the power line in both directions to see a curve or bend around the ruins? It could be more obvious on google earth. Sometimes “salvage” archaeology can take place: a hurried supervised dig by pros to determine the extent and importance of the site and also to remove artifacts. Hundreds of sites like this are known but not publicly marked to discourage pot hunters.
@sororityaddict Жыл бұрын
We have done the land surveys for several power lines.... Sometimes you can find info in the old GLO notes or the appropriate county's assessor maps...
@Tom_Emody Жыл бұрын
The power lines went directly through this site…that’s my observation when I paused the video to get a close look at the perfect straight lines going across the site…they are power lines!!
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
I'm thinking that this site was very rushed to be surveyed or at least excavated. I saw hints of heavy machinery usage in one or two of the pits - which is heartbreaking. It kind of made me feel like this was a "smash-and-grab" type operation, or as you say "salvage" archaeology. I wonder if the pressure from the powerline construction made them do the rushed job??
@llr1784 Жыл бұрын
@@TheTrekPlanner That does not look like salvage archaeology, it looks like it was pothunted. A site that size would have caused a reroute if it had been professionally assessed, and that is absolutely not what testing of a site would look like. Someone got a little backhoe and looted, possibly when they found the site during construction. It is surprising the things that get missed during initial surveys, or mismapped and lost. In my experience, construction companies will dig through anything as long as nobody is right there telling them they have to stop.
@virtualmartini Жыл бұрын
@@llr1784 pothunting is based
@ChrisCartmell Жыл бұрын
I believe what you're doing is very important to North American history. I wish we had the resources to better catalog and restore some of these places lost to time.
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
Wow thank you, Chris!!
@jonathanbauman2236 Жыл бұрын
How is what he's doing important?!? The history is extremely important, yet he doesn't look up any of it or see if it will be preserved or anything. He needs to contact a local university and see if this is a known and protected site or not.
@stormy34467 ай бұрын
@@jonathanbauman2236 Jesus. Talk about arrogant.
@maxsecrest Жыл бұрын
I've done some archaeological work in the area and I was very impressed by your knowledge and your respect and caution at the site
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, Max! I envy you for being able to work in a place like that!
@ellen4956 Жыл бұрын
Five stars! Seriously, I'm so grateful to you for treating these places with respect and not take anything away, like so many would. There might be local Native American people who could tell you about the history of the place. If not, there might be archeologists in the region who know (or could tell by the potsherds). I would love to know the history of it! Thank you for sharing this adventure! I'm too old to adventure now, but at least I can watch others explore!
@Dougfrilled Жыл бұрын
Those H structure power lines are known as transmission lines. I helped build some down in the White Sands area of New Mexico back in 2008. We had to have a cultural anthropologist survey before we dug at many of the locations.
@edwardhanson36649 ай бұрын
Thank you, I was wondering about that. I knew that when large scale projects are proposed, they made different maps focusing on geology, hydrology, vegetation, anthropological, and cultural features. I used to manage a library of that kind of data over 35 years ago. You might find those features on a USGS map. They're all online now.
@JulieAiken Жыл бұрын
Thank you for being so respectful of the places you visit. And thank you for taking us along on these explorations -- I love it!
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Julie!!
@w3sentry Жыл бұрын
PLEASE READ. 🙏 😀😁🙂 Thank you TrekPlanner for exploring these long forgotten ruins. Please excuse the lenghty reply, i'm a huge fan of yours and it is worth the read for those that see this... Most of these like the one you just rediscovered where multi story cities and suburbs that housed what I estimate as a vast civilization would have been at a minimum 7 million people in 1530's based on written accounts from Spanish Explorers and Spanish Conquistador's as well as the Church that arrived later after the Spanish Conquistador's finished there dirty work. 🙃😏 I can sight some good reads that are of historical significance that are very eye opening and push the ruins that you are finding to the 1530's at thier height until they where abandoned to hide in the canyons from The Spanish Conquistador's genocide of the inhabitants. This was to make way for settlement ordered by the spanish crown in secret. This was due to the Spanish Conquistador's and the Spanish Church's prior experience with the Aztecs and the Incas. Once in what is now modern-day Mexico the Spanish discovered rumors of another third massive and advanced civilization that was in trade with the then occupied Aztecs that spanned the four corners region, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and it's borders spanned right up to what is now modern day Texas. Fearing the unpopulararity of meeting another "heathen" (Their words not mine) Non-Christian civilization that would be known to the rest of the old world as inhabited lands, the decision was to send Conquistador's on Horseback into that area and wipe out all traces of them to make it "uninhabited". Due to the inhabitants militaristically peaceful, defensive and not offensive cultural nature of their civilization most of the people as per their customs when faced and encountered with another native american invading force (according to witten accounts from the Spanish) the civilization's inhabitants would kneel in the center of the room with thier heads down and would allow the other native american tribe invaders to take corn, pottery, jewelry, clothes, and various goods without a fight under the long held mutal cultural understanding that they would not be hurt if the invaders would ONLY take what they needed to survive and leave. This was thier way of survival and passive non aggression that allowed thier civilization to grow to such a massive size which the Spanish Conquistador's used to their advantage. Unfortunately this belief structure killed ALOT of people that lived there because they where not there for their goods but their extermination due to being Non-Christians. This quickly caused a culture shift of making defensive structures and towers to spot large Spanish Armies approaching on horseback with big clouds of dust in the distance. According to the Spanish written testimony the civilization had to abandon their cities and ran to hide in the Canyons and would not come out. You can't move massive armies on horseback up dangerous cliffs and move effectively through canyons and steep valleys. 😅 But in 1536 they got their final military campaign break and encountered The Lost Spanish Conquistador that had made his way from the Coast of Texas (after being shipwrecked, beaten, tortured, slaved, escaped from his captors and gained local notoriety) on foot into that region which understood the peoples customs and traditions that the local inhabitants trusted. According to the Spanish on this encounter with The Lost Conquistador that Coincidentally survived in his later travels on foot on his way to the pacific ocean by posing as a God 😂 with a large following of native American people around 20,000 (also on foot all the way from Texas) 😅. The Spanish Armies where at a stalemate with the inhabitants and the people at that point, where very distrustful and skittish of the Spanish Conquistador's. Upon talks and negotiations with The Lost Conquistador, The Commanding Spanish Leadership was able to bring him back into the fold of the already ongoing Spanish Military Campaign since he had gone "native". By restoring his position, military title and promising him to return him to Spain by horse then ship from now modern-day Mexico out of Spanish occupied Aztec land (which he later did). On hearing this The Lost Conquistador was brought back into the fold and "re-christianized and de-heathenized" with the promise that his followers were to become Christians. With his notoriety and "Shaman Status" and arguably his own army that could oppose the Spanish Army (His 20,000 followers from Texas) in a tipping point, convinced the remaining hidding native american inhabitants from the region that you discover on your treks to come out of hiding from the canyons to meet with the Spanish Conquistador's to be exterminated in secret by order of the Spanish Church and Spanish Crown. According to the testimony from 1536 the people that lived there where deemed "Unconvertible to Christianity" and promptly wiped out to make room for Spanish colonization. Their unfortunate reasoning was that these planned "Virgin, Untouched, Fertile and Eden like lands" where owed to them as their promised lands as Christians, as dictated to them by the Bible, which they needed to have the inhuman and no better than animals "heathens" wipped out first to maintain their future illusion. Which after as the testimony goes, when The Lost Conquistador was on his way back to Spain the Spanish Armies not only killed his 20,000 "Christian" followers that convinced the inhabitants to come out of hiding to be secretly killed but also as many and any inhabitants of the civilization they could find afterwards. After a "successful" campaign of God's work and Christianity they too returned by horseback to now modern-day mexico in Aztec lands and to Spain by ship. Later, when Christian missionaries arrived in these "Newly Discovered" lands almost one hundred years later, the few surviving native people's dependents were forced to tear down, bury underground, destroy, take apart brick by brick any and all traces of there old civilization to include any structures, pyramids, cities and places of worship. This was achieved by forcing these inhabitants until death by torture, exaustion, dehydration and starvation to destroy these structures and build Christian Churches on top of the largest sites. You just so happened to find one that was only partially buried and not built upon with a church on top of it or removed brick by brick then built upon. Sadly killing 7 million people takes alot of time. 😐 By the time maps where drawn of the area in the 1600's it was "only ever" Spanish Missionaries that where named in the area with no history of the names of old original places like in what the Spanish had drawn on their maps for Aztec and Incan lands. Effectively history was rewritten until now.. Some secrets are hard to keep secret forever and eventually the scrutiny of history comes through in the end.. So as you explore and discover these wonderful remnants of The American Southwest's history before American Setters got there, please remember the offical story of 800-1000 years is not the truth, and the truth no matter how inconvenient and unpopular to Christianity and The Church is that this was only 500 years ago to 400 years ago when they finally had died off and it was a genocide committed in the name Christianity, the Bible and The Church, that dwarfs the Jewish Holocaust. If this doesn't sit well with modern-day please remember these are the same people that made The Spanish Inquisition a thing to their own people and no one ever expects The Spanish Inquisition.. Peace out, with lots of admiration in your pursuit of the painful truth, mic drop. 🎤 🙃😁😎💚💚💚💚
@tedecker379210 ай бұрын
You are aware, I’m sure, the amount of destruction done by pot hunters. It was considered to be “fair game” to locals before laws were passed to protect antiquities. Laws can only do so much. There needs to be a change of mind set as well, where it’s no longer”cool” to take things from public land. Your channel is helping set an example of how to respectfully explore these places. Thank you!
@Ddax-td7qy26 күн бұрын
This site has sort of vintage power line going by so close: hard to imagine construction workers not "poking around" as they went along. No big deal, back in the day.
@janeencalaway1862 Жыл бұрын
Hopefully you reported this site to a local Archeologists. So much of North Americas history has been reburied, or just destroyed. A single pot shard will be enough to tell them if what you found is important. I love how respectful you are to the locations you visit.
@janeencalaway1862 Жыл бұрын
@wyomarine Thanks for the info.
@Cdub541 Жыл бұрын
Did you not see the power lines? It’s obvious people are aware of this area.
@janeencalaway1862 Жыл бұрын
@@Cdub541 Possibly, but I've driven for miles in areas like that with powerlines all along the road and not a house, business, or structure in sight.
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
I had someone reach out to me to tell me this one had already been documented by the government.
@grelch Жыл бұрын
@@TheTrekPlanner Is there any background on the site? Who might have lived there and when?
@chubbymoth5810 Жыл бұрын
That site actually is quite exiting. The pottery certainly means native settlement and those walls are clearly man made. Maybe it would be interesting to map it and try find the wider picture of why this would be here. It looked a bit greener, so I expect maybe a water source? I would think archaeologist from the nearest university might be interested as well. This place has a story to tell.
@TekedixXx Жыл бұрын
I also noticed how green everything was and thought the same thing about the water availability.
@Panicagq2 Жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same - maybe check for any surveys done for those high tension towers.
@asmodeus1274 Жыл бұрын
Exciting*
@toryallan7967 Жыл бұрын
There is no major University near there. There are small branches for University of Utah and such otherwise very dry, very remote. Most of that Area gets a average of 9 inches of rainfall. At one time this was greater and many small rivers and lakes existed that don't exist today.
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
In some of the canyons nearby there are smaller creeks, streams, and springs. This site was massive! I'm sure it was much much larger than I initially thought
@toryallan7967 Жыл бұрын
The four corners area used to get alot of rain back then. Estimated to have close to 4 million people at one time in the Golden Circle. I loved to explore these back when I was younger :)
@w3sentry Жыл бұрын
I estimated around 7 million based on the accounts of Spanish Explorers and The Spanish Conquistador's that where in that area in the 1530's....🙃😏
@robbie31580 Жыл бұрын
Did there used to be more trees in the area back then?
@w3sentry Жыл бұрын
@@robbie31580 I'll get back to you on it I would have to read through the journals and testimonies there mostly in old Spanish and I can only take so much of the references to religion in one sitting. They were very VERY obsessed and there writing is like watching a Dragon Ball Z show with 10 episode of talking with only about 10 minutes of fighting in all 10 episodes. I can translate around 200 pages a night so it might take sometime, but I promise to reply with what I discover regardless of the result. 😁😎
@d.fpdxhxc Жыл бұрын
@@robbie31580 Yes. And more Rivers and Lakes
@w3sentry Жыл бұрын
@@robbie31580 Ok, from want I could find there where many more of alot of things: trees of various uses some very poisonous, crops, furtile lands, rivers, streams, irrigated agriculture, deer, antelope, buffalo, various jewelry making and permanent and temporary dwellings near rivers and streams, large villages, large cities, large structures, as well as fine cotton textile making for clothing and blankes, copper foundries and ornate copper working, beans, squash, corn, somethings called chacan and tunas, turquoises, emeralds, triboluminescence devices, something called the South Sea????, feather-bushes and parrotplumes, many villages with many people and very big houses spaning the entire area, a Star religion of some sort, rafts for use on the South Sea????, huts, a poison from a tree about 8 feet tall that they used on arrow heads that "made deers burst", land that was "so full of water and streams", pine-nuts that where in abundance around the the civilization's country from small trees of the "sweet pine" (closest translation), "which the cones of which are like small eggs, but the nuts are better than those of Castilla", blankets of cotton "better than those of New Spain", and beads made out of the coral found in the South Sea????, powdered fox-tail grass as a food?, marine plants such as sea grass, kelp, sea weed of some sort, and fish, which they caught in the (south?) sea in large barge like rafts because they did not have canoes, among the people the women were revered, honored, better treated than men and held social and cultural authorities and positions, They wore skirts of cotton that reached as far as the knee, and over them a half-sleeves of scraped deerskin, with strips that hang down to the ground, and which they clean with certain roots, that clean very well and thus keep them tidy. Their shirts are open in front and tied with strings, there shoes were made of fine leathers and cottons that were ornately decorated with jewels, corals and beads.
@meditationforeveryone5773 Жыл бұрын
Awesome find! My 2 year old was even saying, "whoa!" and "wow!" We love going along on your adventures! We'd be curious about what types of things you take along with you on your hot, dry desert adventures!
@theodorejohnson7467 Жыл бұрын
I really enjoy these! I grew up in CO and my school's made the ancestral pueblo history an important part of our curriculum. As a kid running around it always tickled my imagination knowing that people thousands of years ago were running around on the same earth as I was. Your videos really bring back that sensation. Thank you for respecting their homes.
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
That is so cool, Theodore!! I wish our schools did something similar!
@edwardhanson36649 ай бұрын
@@TheTrekPlanner Maybe you could be the first at yours.
@granddad-mv5ef Жыл бұрын
Just a thought, in the forested New England area there are "pits" that are actually cellar holes for homes. Of course, those homes and any occupants are long gone, but the miles of rock walls and evidence of their habitation remain.
@swamp-yankee Жыл бұрын
There are also many indigenous monuments. They moved some big rocks. There’s one in my neighborhood that’s probably never been investigated.
@samparkerSAM Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately it was very popular to Dynamite old sites to look for more Valuable artifacts. It looks like a Early Pueblo Settlement that was abandoned with the arrival of the Spanish. Then Blasted in the recent past in a Attempt to " excavate " This was a popular habit of miners in the back country.
@QuasiBlond Жыл бұрын
Those rock walls and terraces seriously need investigating. I do not believe they were built by European colonizers. Interesting stuff!
@Clover1234611 ай бұрын
I wish we cared more about our ancient sites in North America. It is so nice to see this.
@tellusorbit Жыл бұрын
Jeff, thanks once more for taking us along on this Trek. You raise an interesting question about the energy company lines that cross this land, whether their people were aware of the ruins' presence. I rather doubt they were. Remember, you have a trained eye to spot these things. Very few other people do. Likely, they took their meal breaks among the mounds, kiva pits, scattered postsherds and trenches and paid no attention and took no notice. I agree this find is worth further study and investigation. There is much here to discover.
@rocksandoil2241 Жыл бұрын
Energy companies are required to hire a pre-drill, pre-build survey of the biology, botany, and archeology of the planned routes and the roads to them. Canyonland of the Ancients were created well after many of the wells and pipelines were built but even so they had to have surveys done. We were doing them in the 1970s for sure.
@tellusorbit Жыл бұрын
@@rocksandoil2241 Thank you very much for sharing this information. I'm glad to know energy companies are required to take responsible surveys and actions before doing work on open lands.
@baysideauto Жыл бұрын
This is a awesome explore dude, ancient history all over the place. So cool
@Redfour5 Жыл бұрын
I look at the individual shards like you picked up with the lines on it and think, a human hand decorated that a 1,000 or so years ago and am struck as much by that as the larger ruins themselves.
@MrsMoon-qs2gf Жыл бұрын
"One rock is a rock. Two rocks is a coincidence. Three rocks is a wall". - Mick Aston, Time Team.
@headlessspaceman5681 Жыл бұрын
Three rocks is a cairn. A wall is a wall.
@MrsMoon-qs2gf Жыл бұрын
@@headlessspaceman5681 😂😂😂
@leighellington21 Жыл бұрын
Take note of the site bushes. Thorny, shrub like plants with green leaves. They're called Wolf Berries...or Goji Berries. They're typically found in ruins or can be used as an indicator of a possible habitation site. They're edible berries with a slightly sweet to tomato like flavor. 99% of the time you could say with absolute certainty....you find or see the plants....you're in a ruin or near one.
@wullaballoo2642 Жыл бұрын
Goji berries are one of these newfangled so called superfoods, they have like 1000x the vitamin C of oranges so hipsters will pay shit loads for a handful of those only to shit loads through the eye of a needle from a vitamin C overdose
@dyent Жыл бұрын
Not a chance. Gojis are native to Asia and werent introduced to the Americas until the 20th century. Theres related plants native to the Americas, but many of them aren't edible.
@CuttySobz Жыл бұрын
Idk about 99%..........
@epistemologicalnihilist5746 Жыл бұрын
Goji berries in Asia, cherry tomatoes plants in usa obv guys
@alanwatts8239 Жыл бұрын
@@dyentDamn, you broke that man's argument effortlessly, well done. Hehe.
@Darryl_Frost Жыл бұрын
You have a very good eye, I really hope you do find some people to help you explain what you have found and if it is a new find. I would love to see some follow up video's on that. And also, WELL DONE, for your deep respect of the people and in leaving the site the way you found it, and maintaining the stratigraphy.
@FacesintheStone Жыл бұрын
His first step would be to the local indigenous groups. They will be able to help and advise.
@prieten49 Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate you taking us along on these treks. Like I said, back when I was in college in the late 1970s, I drove to visit many of the better known ruins. Occasionally I would happen on a side ruin that would have pottery sherds scattered around it. I always wondered why there was just one sherd and not a lot of the same sherds from the same pot. I imagined trying to reassemble a complete pot but there never seemed to be enough similar sherds. The road from the east towards Hovenweep had a farm field next to it and I could see several raised mounds the farmer had gone around. I stopped the car and went to investigate. Sure enough, I found piles of rocks that once were walls and pot sherds everywhere. I'm glad the farmer didn't just plow everything under but I suspected the sites had been disturbed quite a bit. These ruins you are finding with Google Earth have interesting stories to tell too. If only they could talk!
@3Cathill Жыл бұрын
They are talking, they are saying Bye! As time goes on they will be gone!
@markberryhill2715 Жыл бұрын
I live on our family farm 🚜,and sadly watched my dad plow over a valuable village site over and over again until there was nothing left of pottery and arrowheads,all in the name of industrial agriculture.
@colinking3314 Жыл бұрын
Tera firma is but an illusion
@72marshflower15 Жыл бұрын
@Stuart M. Great thought, but you wouldn’t stand with Ukraine if you knew ANYTHING of history..
@1ouncebird Жыл бұрын
@@colinking3314 Okay mystic person. Being that earth is an illusion I assume you won't be eating any food ever again on account of it being an illusion and all. That's great. Saves on grocery bills. And you don't have to go anywhere because anywhere that you arrived at isn't there. Saves on gas too. I think you're onto something here.
@timlewis7218 Жыл бұрын
These things are more common than people realize. Glad your doing this.
@jimkhana007 Жыл бұрын
Amazing, you’ve got a great eye to spot these on Google Earth and also on the floor…
@lovesloudcars Жыл бұрын
83K subscribers! You're going to hit 100 before too long. Thanks for sharing another cool adventure.
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
Thank you! It’s so exciting to me!!
@xvsj-s2x Жыл бұрын
Great Content ❤, From the drone views it appears that sections of this site have been previously excavated. I wonder if that occurred while the power lines were installed? Maybe the power company would have some documentation regarding this area.✌️👍
@user-er4sb5gg7o7 ай бұрын
I just started watching your videos today, I love them. Something I used to do when I was young. Go hike alone in the mountains behind my car moms house. I’ve seen old burial grounds. I paid my respects & never went back. I’m knew it was old as a cradleboard was hanging on a tree, that’s how Apaches used to bury their babies. Thanks for sharing your adventures & respecting the sites.
@DanteHec Жыл бұрын
Love it! Makes me want to explore too!
@janice7408 Жыл бұрын
It's wonderful how detailed you are in documenting these sites and i love how you leave behind the artifacts ❤
@sarahstrong717411 ай бұрын
I love to stop & appreciate the wildflowers too. Thankyou for pausing.
@hogkillerjp Жыл бұрын
outstanding hike and discovery, it's amazing how many folks lived in these areas and we never knew..thanks for sharing..
@Mrzederman2 Жыл бұрын
Great video man! I love that you’re adding in what the pottery could of looked like fully intact. I’d love if you did the same with the building sites! Can’t wait for the next one
@boa1793 Жыл бұрын
Yes.I second this. I’d love to see imposed diagrams on the pictures from your drone of the walkways you talked about. Thanks for this stuff. It is fascinating.
@apache6167 Жыл бұрын
So amazing... I love your appreciation for the ancestors and you will be blessed. Please be safe some may be sacred grounds forgotten many lifetimes ago. 😁👍
@mirandamom1346 Жыл бұрын
Some years ago I volunteered at an archaeological dig in western Colorado. The site was a greathouse belonging to the same cultural tradition as Chaco Canyon. In the 1950s, the landowners had spent their Sunday afternoons bulldozing the spot, looking for saleable artifacts. This looks like it could have suffered a similar fate… maybe?
@jeffwise3851 Жыл бұрын
It looks excavated to me also.
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
I'm thinking the same thing. One of the pits definitely looked like there was large machinery digging around in it ☹☹
@captainspalding6383 Жыл бұрын
I live in the Southeast... it's mostly wooded but a lot of times you can see openings in the trees and areas that look like designs or geoglyphs... just being in the woods... there's always something interesting
@Armyjay Жыл бұрын
Have you managed to speak to anyone about it yet? A site of that scale really should be reported and at least registered as an historic monument. Some of the “mounds” remind me of burial mounds at Bronze Age sites around the world.
@Armyjay Жыл бұрын
@carmineredd Wtf are you ranting about? Your unhinged strawman betrays your ignorance and i would wager your blind faith in superstitious nonsense. That said, i would happily “dig up” some “ancestors” if you can find any that are a thousand plus years old.
@lh3540 Жыл бұрын
The blm or whoever probably knows it's there if there's a power pylon and a road.
@cheapdate2334 Жыл бұрын
@carmine redd who hurt you snowflake?
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure this site has been looted like crazy before. It's terribly sad, but one of the pits looks like it had a backhoe dig at it.
@jcpasimvu Жыл бұрын
@carminereddsounds great! I would love to learn more about them.
@benth162 Жыл бұрын
Another possibility is that those mounds are "Tailings" from an old mining site. Consider where all that rock could have come from and are the rock's shapes reveal any tool marks squaring them up. If not then those rocks had to come from digging a surface mine for exploration.
@terryravey2248 Жыл бұрын
great utube i really appreciate. your investigating and sharing
@arailway8809 Жыл бұрын
Hi Jeff, I was surprised to see how deep the soil apparently was on this site. Good soil and water make a good corn crop. One old commenter in Lincoln, New Mexico said that with water they could grow a good crop in the 19th century. Without water it was not worth plowing.
@spikeyapplesseashells9233 Жыл бұрын
What a genuine person you are. No over doing it. Just being honest about what you see ND find.. Your reveling that the USA has ancient cities that was destroyed. It wasnt just a wild untamed country with wild Indians running around with spears. There were well built ancient cities. These ones that u find were either destroyed by a natural disaster or man made destroyed. Thank u for actually taking us out there. U remind me of hangman channel on giant trees. God bless and stay safe ❤️🙏
@chrisackerley1842 Жыл бұрын
You'te doing a great job, kid. Keep on searching. Next Winter, you might consider expanding your search to Southern Arizona. The Hohokam built towns, settlements, canals, you name it. The signs are there, if you search in the right places. In any event, keep on making these videos. You sure as hell caught my interest!
@amechealle5918 Жыл бұрын
It would be interesting if someone could do a fly over with the radar? Sonar? Like they have done in other countries to see what could possibly be laying under the dirt and vegetation. It would be so cool to see.
@samsmom1491 Жыл бұрын
Lidar. It is a great idea.
@Normandy1944 Жыл бұрын
@@samsmom1491 Same thought, ...would it not be cool if he and Albert Lin from NatGeo got together and ran LiDar all around there.
@samsmom1491 Жыл бұрын
@@Normandy1944 Yes, yes, yes! Albert Lin has shown us some amazing images. I wish he'd do more shows.
@VetsrisAuguste Жыл бұрын
The last time I flew into SLC from the eastern U.S., we flew over the four corners area. I recall taking in the vastness of the remote landscape and pondering the extent of human activity there both past and present. Seems like your video touches on all that and more.
@longlifeprinters9 Жыл бұрын
It would have been really neat to have seen this around the year 1300, it would have been abandoned but still standing. The only reason the cliff dwellings are still around is because of the cliff coverings. This area took a lot of weather abuse.
@icandivideos5743 Жыл бұрын
Jeff you are quite the sleuth on google earth! Great find! What other people would see as just a rocky area you bring into focus what was ancestral homes that the world has forgotten. Thanks for your sleuthing, so interesting!
@jennifersiegrist8440 Жыл бұрын
Wow. This place is so big, wonder what it looked like in its peak. Thank you for taking us on this journey ❤❤❤❤
@IHUTCHI Жыл бұрын
Another great find on this one. THANK YOU for leaving the pottery!
@BrienDunn Жыл бұрын
Stunning! Awesome find. There is an Archeological group in the UK that tackles investigating ruins. Would be amazing to have an American version.
@jadeowenhamblyn4405 Жыл бұрын
Wow that's exciting!
@RIXRADvidz Жыл бұрын
your reverence for the land and the pottery pieces is very impressive, new subscriber. the drone shows room structures and alignments we would miss on the ground, like the lines at Nazca. thanks for sharing this experience.
@Vexx_Line_ Жыл бұрын
Ever have a run-in with bigfoot out there? Very fascinating discovery!
@mikealman9259 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for another great (virtual) exploration, and as expressed by other's, your respect for the sites u visit, is appreciated and a fine example 👍👍
@richardcallihan9746 Жыл бұрын
Keep on keeping on, the quick flower views are always nice! as well.
@PirateStyle2013 Жыл бұрын
This was super cool to see. Thanks for sharing your explorations.
@jeffreyparish2542 Жыл бұрын
Fun!...like always. Keep it up and I'll be there.
@hangin-in-thereawesome4245 Жыл бұрын
My parents once a farm that had an Indian burial mound on it! We never bothered it...thinking first it was a grave and second curses may have been put on it by the shaman!!!
@pmj50 Жыл бұрын
Love your explorations and respect for the sites and not taking pottery shards , which i’m sure is hard to resist…. I think the rubble surrounding the holes were looters , maybe those who placed the first power poles with backfilling equipment… the whole area is dug up…..My guess is looters. but hey , you are the explorer!!! always great to see your adventures. Thx.
@dandearborn727 Жыл бұрын
Can you imagine what was there before the power line folks rooted around?
@CenturyHomeProject Жыл бұрын
I find it fascinating that you’re able to find these places. As someone who has an archaeology buff your finding a location like this is helping to record our past. A site like this should be protected.
@jaye1967 Жыл бұрын
It might be interesting to make an overlay of all the ruins and pits in that area. Then you could get an idea of what the village or whatever it was, was laid out.
@RickNelsonMn Жыл бұрын
That's fascinating. It would be an incredible archeological site for study. Thank you.
@courgettee Жыл бұрын
guarantee that's been studied
@gotworc Жыл бұрын
@@courgettee most likely yeah. Would be cool to excavate it though.
@DrLumpy Жыл бұрын
@@gotworc No. Let's not tear it apart. We can investigate it very thoroughly with non destructive observation and measuring.
@apollohill6733 Жыл бұрын
Keep this up. It really blows my mind. It's kind of like Chaco Canyon. It looks like it was built on flagstone. Really cool.
@mrestum Жыл бұрын
There were many early peueblos settlements in SE Utah from the 800s - 900s from the early pueblo I period through the middle peublo I period and then late pueblo I period and early pueblo II period. Some were village size (like this one appears to be), some included Great Kivas, and others were defensive sites. This looks like a Pueblo I site
@ismaelgomez4554 ай бұрын
Love to see your videos of ancient sites!! Keep up the great work
@williamskris63354 ай бұрын
Fascinating!!! TY for sharing!!! God Bless!!!
@cskillet2003 Жыл бұрын
This is good stuff! Love the wildflowers and rocks.
@tardigrade9493 Жыл бұрын
Cool, fun, thanks!
@tardigrade9493 Жыл бұрын
Pot shard, rhymes with hard. :-)
@Jim-fe2xz Жыл бұрын
What fun! I was in school at the University of Arizona from 1966 to 1970. My friend Steve was interested in these things and I went with him several times exploring. He theorized the mounds we found may have been ovens as we also found a lot of broken pottery. Occasionally we took special pieces to the university and they would send teams out to look more closely. Great adventure & memories - thank you!
@oldbatwit5102 Жыл бұрын
Why would you think that mounds were ovens?
@LeTrashPanda Жыл бұрын
Nope, usually burial grounds for the most important. After a person died, their belongings were destroyed, this was also done when they relocated (they didn't carry their dishware when they could make more at their destination)
@rocksandoil2241 Жыл бұрын
You should explore off Goodman Point (Canyon of the Ancients) - besides the visible pathways the Anasazi used across the bean fields, and the kivas and pueblos, about quarter-half mile east of the true "point" (Google somewhat pinpoints the point inaccurately) you drop off to the first bench and in one place is a huge fossil tree trunk extrudes thru the wall of the rock and you go around the other side and it sticks out there as well. It's private land on top, but usually you can wrangle permission to enter as long as you stay on the roadway. There are a lot of cell towers on Goodman point.
@maxi-me Жыл бұрын
Must have been a quite sophisticated society, judging from the transmission tower and power lines near the site... Might find an ancient substation nearby 😂
@splintmeow4723 Жыл бұрын
This is unbelievable ❤ such beautiful work.
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Splint Meow! 🐈⬛🐈⬛
@SamwiseOutdoors Жыл бұрын
What a cool find! I'm really enjoying living vicariously through your explorations. I used to do the same Google Earth and hike adventures back before I had kids, and your work really takes me back to those freewheeling days.
@donb711311 ай бұрын
That’s quite the complex of crumbled structures. After having been to ancient Roman and Hittite cities, this is just as cool because I they’re here in the southwest.
@davekreitzer4358 Жыл бұрын
Looks like an ancient settlement , to me !!! Another good job and video !!! 👌✔️
@robotkyle71 Жыл бұрын
This was a great one! The size and scope is amazing!!
@moretoexplore6736 Жыл бұрын
You find the coolest places. Thanks for taking us along.
@dyannejohnson61848 ай бұрын
Do you let your local archeologists know? You find amazing things
@martinlatvian5538 Жыл бұрын
A perfect place for archeology students for field expierence. I bet there is a lot to find.
@janettetippetts7942 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking us along with you! I grew up in Utah and we spent most of our time in the south central part hunting arrowheads for vacations. My dad was a rockhound and became a silversmith so he could make jewelry from what he found. It was a good and interesting life. Miss those good times with family and friends camping out in the desert and looking up at the stars. We only had one incident with one of my brothers waking up with a scorpion in his sleeping bag. Good times!
@chrisbricky7331 Жыл бұрын
Great work and thanks for sharing. Shared to Facebook. Chris
@yellowdog762jb5 ай бұрын
Another good video. The drone footage really helps put things in perspective.
@lnbjr77 ай бұрын
Thank you for the images of pottery in almost all of your videos. Whether they have slip painted designs or not, each pot chard you show only hints at the original inspired design, and that’s only the beginning of what we can imagine their fantastic original designs must have been.
@openminds8765 Жыл бұрын
6:40 Too funny - I thought I was the only one who talks to myself and gave the all right answers 🤪. Fun addition to your well done videos📽 - Good work on your Dude ✅- Keep them comin...
@nterracall Жыл бұрын
Love what you're doing! Thanks for taking us with you
@toddjones1403 Жыл бұрын
Everything is so green in the desert! Wet winter and spring in the West this year. Beautiful.
@fajile5109 Жыл бұрын
Wow man when you point it out i see it so easily. Thats pattern recognization off the charts!
@wandapease-gi8yo Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear that a “Kiva” was not just a “Man Cave” (religious ceremonial site) but actually may have been used for community gatherings, which could also be religious I guess. Still it could have been used to determine who was going to spent how much time stacking rocks for a discernible reason.
@Jamie-jg1in Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing. Keep up the good work!
@JETZ435 Жыл бұрын
I lived as a child in the four corners and too this day it is one of my favorite places to explore. So much pottery and other cool artifacts to see.
@karenmurphy7066 Жыл бұрын
Hi, thank you for the adventure and grtting to see the remnants of amazing structures of the past. Did you by chance see possible past or present water source(s) nearby? Thank you for sharing your trek!
@carmelahearle957 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if this area was a bathing pool area with several pools. I've heard there used to be a lot more water here in the past.
@juliadrumgold87907 ай бұрын
Thanks. I love watching what you find. 😊
@dianespears6057 Жыл бұрын
With thanks for your adventuring and sharing.
@rab6453 Жыл бұрын
The thing to do was to Chain brake the area to open it up for grass to grow for the cattle.Also to remove evidence of prior owners occupation.The giant chains and tractors leveled out everything.Twelve to fifteen thousand years of occupation and way longer on the coast 60 ft underground at ventura calif from silt build up carbon dates to 20 thousand yrs.
@gator83261 Жыл бұрын
Jump cuts, so many, wonderful….
@valethewolf49 Жыл бұрын
This is so cool!!! So much history we have no idea about. ThankYou for taking Us! 🌏🪶🔥🌊❤
@TheTrekPlanner Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@ralsharp6013 Жыл бұрын
You never cease to find amazing ancient adventure🎉
@katherinefitzpatrick446 Жыл бұрын
You definitely found something significant. You've got good eyes.
@danmitchell1665 Жыл бұрын
The mounds of rock remind me of my visit to Tikal Guatemala. The main temple complex was amazing, but you walk around a bit and you see the mounds with fallen blocks/bricks. They were old buildings just waiting to be restored. Looked like what was in this video.