NM True TV - Chaco Canyon & Aztec Ruins

The Ancestral Puebloan people created villages and mystery in the Southwest. And nowhere has a higher concentration of those villages than New Mexico. Chaco Culture National Historical Park, commonly known as Chaco Canyon, is the best-preserved and largest site that offers insight into the mystery. And a bit farther north Aztec Ruins National Monument is yet another key Ancestral Puebloan village. Why did they build it all, why did they leave so soon, and where did they go? There are theories and research, but Michael and the NM True TV Crew were happy to let the mysteries remain, and let the beauty surround them.

[@RonnieWisdom]

An amazing and well crafted video!!! Thank you!

[@wesleyswaters8643]

I'm a lifelong, till I die New Mexican, and have allways been fascinated by The Anasazi culture. It's so amazing that the size of the structures they built. Nothing came close to them untill the 1800's. It's fairly easy to expect that The Mississippian Culture and The Anasazi culture traded with each other, aswell with Aztecs/Mayans from the artifacts unearthed in Chaco Canyon from Central America. So much history has been lost , I hope one day It will be uncovered.

[@RonnieWisdom]

Love this comment!

[@klmoo5390]

My goal When I'm older is to be able to visit civilizations like these all over the world and start a charity one day

[@enigmanetxx3657]

Soooo COOOOL!!!!

[@oscarescobedo6996]

Estuve ahí, fue fascinante!.

[@CarlosHernandez-uy5ee]

Is beautiful

[@soleraknight]

The structures within Chaco Canyon could of been factories, a place where clothes, jewelry, pottery, weapons, farming implements, art, regalia, refineries, smelting, water cisterns, and the like were manufactured for distribution among tribes, and also traded for other goods as this major hub for trade, culture, and education flourished. People may have lived nearby but came to the factories just to work as folks do today. The buildings were aligned to the sun and moon in order to give maximum light for the workers, during various shifts.

[@wesleyswaters8643]

I think it was similar to mecca or Jerusalem during the Passover. Trades from Central America have been unearthed in Chaco Canyon, and I would bet there is artifacts from Anasazi culture in central America too. The roads are too well done to not be used on a massive scale, from all over the Southwest. Too straight and direct to be anything else other than traveling paths of humans. The Yucatan also has similar roads/pathways built up to pass swamps and waterways. The artifacts don't seem as numerous if a large civilization lived there permanently. Of course they could of just been clean, and useful of everything that they made

[@soleraknight]

@@wesleyswaters8643 These buildings were occupied not that long ago actually, so the collective DNA memory should be still very active within the decedents of the peoples that were actually there in those times. A group of Native Ancestral Puebloan People should go there and hold camp meetings, to get in touch with these memories if not being done already.

[@TylerD288]

A Navajo said those ruins are evil.

[@soleraknight]

@@TylerD288 Evil is, is Evil does. Ruins are neither. Evil is a word used to describe a human behavior as evildoers implies action within the human species that is deemed evil by nature. All words are symbols for instance a D was added to evil to personify the action as Devilish whereas a O was dropped from Good to create the concept of God. Therefore the Devil is evil - God is Good -Yet the " DO " is what matters as it will always be what a human does with their life evil or good? It is a choice.

[@TylerD288]

@@soleraknight I agree with everything you wrote, however, there is also the matter of spiritual energy, both positive and negative, that for reasons that are a mystery, tend to inhabit places. On another note, I didn't necessarily believe what I was told, and I have visited Chaco once, almost 20 years ago.

[@johnmcnulty4425]

You know, the Aztecs down in Mexico were said to be immigrants from the north who built their city out on a Lake because no other spot was available to them. Turns out they were master builders who would one day dominate the region. Isn't it possible that these people originated in present day northern New Mexico?

[@kristoffliftoff9316]

Dominate ? The Spanish dominated.

[@thomasmurray4717]

I want to visit Chaco Canyon, but I’m not able to get around very well. Should I try a visit?

[@NewMexicoTrue]

Thomas, there are short walks of about 100+ yards to some of the larger ruins. And the paths are dirt, but relatively flat. Hope that helps. It is obviously worth seeing.

[@luperamos7307]

@@NewMexicoTrue How do you get there? I tried and there were only dirt roads leading there with some sharp rocks at times. And these roads are 20 miles long! Not sure how anyone should get there without a pickup. I have no clue why they can't at least build a decent road there. I didn't see anyone driving on those roads either in the middle of the desert.

[@Tarasrurallife25]

Are there any over night rv parking for tourists there or near there?

[@mc_sneezy_3533]

No the closest one is in Farmington

[@atomlinson2]

We visited last week & they had a few campsites

[@atomlinson2]

We visited last week. Amazing sights

[@luperamos7307]

How did you get to visit? They don't even provide you with roads. You only have dirt roads leading there that are hard to drive on if you have a regular sedan

[@nate3674]

Visited 24 years ago, very thankful

[@mikek9488]

@@luperamos7307 you could always hike it

[@luperamos7307]

@@mikek9488 I think the dirt road may have been 20 miles long. I wouldn't know how you would hike that. There is not even a place to park and anyone could just break into your car then if you leave it there.

[@mikek9488]

@@luperamos7307 well, when the Anasazi built it, they didnt have cars or even horses. 20 miles is around an 8 hour hike each way. new mexico is full of good parking. leave someone in your car to guard it.

[@MrTitaniumDioxide]

Ha...according to a Timeline documentary, the early European settlers may have _not_ been mistaken in naming them Aztec ruins. The Chaco people possibly were Mesoamerican settlers or colonists who traveled northward from Mexico around 900 CE.

[@cjbrown8245]

Nice

[@denboe2894]

Much like other sites of stone but, they lodge tiny stones in there. Very different from other sites and well worth the time and a picture. Be able to duck down occaisionally. The Aztec site again duck. Ooh the Thy cousine.... they were there to? But, now that is everywhere if you like eating.

[@mrlopez1437]

Cool

[@luperamos7307]

Aztec ruins are good if you are in the area. You should have mentioned that only dirt roads with sharp rocks lead to Chaco. It's not advisable to drive there with a regular sedan. You are unlikely to encounter people on those remote dirt roads in the desert and they are 20 miles long. I have no clue why they can't put a decent road to get you there.

[@autay7685]

Yesterday we went to Chaco in a Honda Civic, don’t ask but we reach

[@luperamos7307]

@@autay7685 No clue why you would do that. I have seen far better dirt roads that recommended high clearance vehicles. I would not recommend anyone go there with a car like that. It's a dirt road with loads of sharp rocks.

[@bustermot]

I recently did it in a Subaru Outback. I’d do it in a Civic big deal. Also why fix roads? Keep it quiet.

[@lockyraglus3358]

It's the only place in the world that there was no graves or burials of human skeletons or bones found where did they go

[@bossking2877]

Only goes backv1500 yrs

[@disconnectpub]

According to those that have records passed down, These were slave built, using people extremely violent times where people were slaves so it wasn’t so fun and cool for these indigenous folks to fight off assholes who came in and took their lives away from them

[@jaywalker8309]

carbon dating of acoma pueblo is 30000 years old and other pueblo sites are older

[@halhansen9111]

Carbon dating of Chaco pottery, (claims the official site), shows roughly 400 A.D. Can you point to where you got your dating Info from? I’m hoping you can!

[@luperamos7307]

Why not give people a road to get there?

[@nancygibbs3843]

Because like everything else they would destroy it, leave trash and graffiti

[@luperamos7307]

@@nancygibbs3843 It's supposedly a national park or operated by the national Park service. So it's taken care of. But there are literally no paved roads that lead there

[@clairematthews5797]

Test, test

[@avail1.]

But, not advanced enough to survive? But, there is s future for them Daniel 12:2/John 5:28/Isaiah 35:5-7 a time to live again, and be healed by the great Spirit God - John 4:24/1Timothy 1:17. Times of *Restoration - Acts 3:21

[@pinata-whacker4635]

Ross Harris looks like no civilization is advance enough to survive... what dumb comment.

[@bossking2877]

They are not the Jews

[@tyrammstein]

their decedents survie today. the culture did not.for many reasons. imposing christin stuff on other cultures is sad and the defintion of enthocentrcity.

[@johnclark1612]

These names they give these ancient ruins are not anything near of who built these, and there's 100s more undocumented because it doesn't fit the Indian creation narrative because Indians didn't build them, unless Indians have Caucasian blood, then yeah, those were here too