Willis Well Petroglyphs, Rodman Mountains, Mojave Desert, California

[@hornthieves]

your in a league of your own ALEX BRAVO

[@paulnicolosi4792]

Excellent episode Alex…

[@garyj2101]

I enjoyed the video Alex thanks for sharing!

[@WindTreeStudios]

Loved your feather dance at the end of the video Alex! 🪶🕺

[@storiesbyalex]

Hey Doug, thanks for watching and I look forward to seeing your next project................alex

[@WindTreeStudios]

@@storiesbyalex Yes Sir. I have many ideas to develop! Need to get back into the studio.

[@DaveKentLive]

Another excellent production Alex!

[@berlindamanik8001]

Great job my friend

[@user-pp4nd7vw8m]

Appreciated!

[@explorewithmelody8445]

Thanks for the video 😃

[@gerardahern2153]

Love the floot and Crow in the background. The sound of electrical life peace@Love

[@brianrodman1033]

Very cool, I didn’t know about the Rodman Mountains before seeing this video.

[@samwalker4997]

Thank you

[@lornahardin4563]

Thank you Alex. Very informative and I love the flute music, by the way your dance at the end was admirable.

[@JM-iu5wc]

Please continue making videos!

[@jimschafer9196]

Rock walls good color of Stones. Great share thank you.

[@William-Marshall]

I enjoy your treks so much. I’m surprised you do not have more subscribers. You are so incredibly interesting. Personally I mostly watch , because I enjoy this so much, not much of a commenter, enjoy you non the less. Thanks

[@ericarichmond3735]

Yay! New videos! Thanks as always!

[@stoneagesteve5395]

these films are very theraputic, thankyou for sharing your journey.

[@sandeedriver1941]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your dancing with us!

[@zeynelocak9557]

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[@tom7o18]

Thank you for taking us with you and describing these places to us, so informative. You honor these ancients.

[@mikekinney9830]

Good day, Alex. It's me your friend, Mike Kinney here in the Bay Area. After seeing the glyphs of the rakes, the site probably is about 40,000 years old. As for the huge boulder with the numerous cupules they indicate several things to me: 1. It make be a fertility rock, 2. it could be a marker representing where the timelines of the past and present merge together, if the conditions are right, or 3. the cupules may act as a map recording of the journey from the star constellation that the Ancient Ones made from to settle on the surface world of the Earth.

[@storiesbyalex]

Hello Mike, I hope all is well with you and your family. Thanks for watching and your comments.............alex

[@secretmuse420]

Thank you Alex. I learn so much from your videos 🤙🏽

[@huntingtonbeachsasquatch]

Good to see another video Alex, It's been some time.👍😁

[@1HorseOpenSlay]

It's amazing!

[@Gola308]

Visited this Rodman Mountain site for the first time around 30 years ago with my newlywed wife from Barstow. The spirits were with us when she narrowly avoided stepping on a coiled diamond back rattlesnake in the middle of the wash while she was walking and looking up. It slowly stretched out to over 5 feet, to show us how big it was. Must have been molting because it moved very slow. Awesome experience and beautiful site!

[@joedavis4150]

... Alex, I was certainly impressed with your videos about the plain of jars.... thank you so much.

[@SolzeyeJewels]

I love your videos Alex. I've learned so much. Thank you. 🦋

[@SkyTHEGuy]

Well Alex nice to se you back!

[@Flernaffinor]

Yes! I got hooked on his older videos, so I'm really happy to see Alex is still out there!

[@SkyTHEGuy]

@@Flernaffinor me to

[@mariaserrano7047]

Me gustan mucho sus videos y me da la impresión que yo también voy ahí con usted muchas gracias por sus documentales alex

[@brianferris1233]

🌲🦌🌲 thank you for posting your video stay safe and healthy out there today🦅🌲

[@chelsrose2423]

Yay! Alex is back!!

[@raymonddettlaff1386]

Thank you Alex. It was awesome to see another of your amazing videos. Fascinated with the D-stretch images. Love the dance, get down brother!

[@harirao12345]

Alex .. what a great and pleasant surprise to see this post from you. Thank you and looking forward to many more!

[@davislong9476]

I went to Petroglyph lake In Nevada two years ago,A two hour walk In saw some nice Petroglyphs neat to look at bring water, if you go...

[@blukeblue1235]

Hi Alex. I always enjoy your videos and appreciate your respect for nature and things from the past. Good work!

[@jerbearlolz]

Great editing and very informative. Thank you Alex!

[@eugeniamartin712]

You’re BAAAAAAACK ‼️ I’ve been rewatching the playlist I created if your travels throughout this pandemic hell, got me thru it with curiosity , adventure & learning 😎 thanks for your videos 👏👍🙌

[@marjoriegarner5369]

love the flute music. and all you share. thank you. as a child, lived in that vast desert and lived exploring alone. very hot place. loved the lizards.

[@marjoriegarner5369]

lived with my grandparents. I was happy there. There were no lawns, just gravel, to conserve water. We need to do that now. Greetings from Montana, in the "high" desert. On the Continental Divide. In the very old mining town of Butte.

[@davidortega357]

Hi alex I like your videos the music is so relaxing enjoy your adventures I'm with you in spirit keep it up

[@RDEE2022]

Love seeing a new video on your channel. Thank you so much for your wonderful content!

[@terryfinley7760]

Thank you!

[@vivichristywenas8497]

Thank you Alex... Hug, from Manado - Minahasa - INDONESIA

[@WasatchSasquatchUtah]

You do such a good job presenting these, thank you.

[@bcbconklin]

Once again, Alex, a very interesting site!

[@durwinpocha2488]

"Once again the age old story prevails. People write symbols to save each other. While others hunt to kill others only to bring death on themselves. Only the enigmatic beautiful pictures remain."

[@joycecaudell6047]

Thank you for bringing us to a site I could not have visited. As we are experiencing a drought season in many parts of the US in 2021, I am reminded of how critical fresh, clean water is for us today, just as it was for our ancient ancestors! I’m thankful we have a record of their passing.

[@daleswier8429]

Thanks for taking me along non another amazing journey into the past, Alex. Beautiful video. I hope you'll be able to upload more soon. And welcome back home.

[@returnofthegorgon8687]

Jacobs ladder!!!....but children like artist produce children like art.

[@jetpetty1613]

I love these videos! So informative, intriguing, and well made ☺️

[@jetpetty1613]

D-stretch is a wonderful tool

[@artreyes9032]

Alex you should visit mockingbird canyon here In riverside ca lots petroglyphs there. I

[@lindagolden9892]

I hope he sees your suggestion and takes us there if able. 🌵 🦅

[@artreyes9032]

@@lindagolden9892 you been there?

[@Tibbers12]

Alex! I am so glad you are making new videos! It would be a dream to join you on an adventure to see these beautiful sites. Thank you for making it possible for us to join you by sharing your adventures with us. You are the very best sir and are loved and cherished!

[@janjohannessmith7033]

Very sacred. Thank you Alex. Lost in the thread of time.?? We postmodernist can barely comprehend the ancient portrayals Of their experiences meeting their creators in sacred ceremony. When men and gods Behold each other

[@ShelleeGraham]

Yay Alex! So glad to see this new video from Willis Well! Thank you so much. I sure enjoyed seeing your joyful celebration dance at the end. (It appears that you have practiced before with Native Americans. 👍 Nicely done!) Warm Regards from Oklahoma!

[@lancehermann3692]

I went to Laughlin Nevada a few weeks ago and had the opportunity to go to the Grapevine Canyon petroglyph site. When my wife and I got to the trailhead there were several young and older ladies dressed up in traditional Mohave Indian dresses. So we followed them to the petroglyph site and at the site was an elder Mohave Indian man explaining the meaning of all the glyphs. Later I found out the meeting was for one of the US senators who was there for the state of Nevada as they were trying to explain the importance and to have them officially protected. As a side note there happens to be three Jimson weed plants growing in the wash below the glyphs and wondered to myself if that plant had a role on that site.

[@LucidCreature]

Another great videos! Always love to see the dances of the Native American that you do!

[@davislong9476]

Were the names on the rocks from the settlers back then they look like during that time frame 1900s..

[@susanmccormick4627]

Thank you for this video. Can you please tell me about Paradise California ancient native Americans?

[@Tibbers12]

It almost looks like a calendar at 7:49 of the video. The dots could be in correspondence with the lunar cycle. There appear to be 29 by my count. Perhaps they were counting the number of days there would be good light at night until the next new moon?

[@JoseluisdeHOU]

Anthropologist Dr. William Breen Murray conducted a study at Presa de la Mula Nuevo Leon around similar “comb” shaped petroglyphs that, in his opinion, captured the synodic lunar movements… Some local Archeologists argued that there was not enough evidence and attributed these to a more religious purpose calling them “water drops” or or “water tears”… Intriguing!

[@SpaceHobo42]

Odd that an ancient Ley Line also cuts through this area.

[@SpaceHobo42]

Also, the Abstract and Archeic lines and grids, might actually be a form of Ley Line map as to gice best travels.

[@racsorange]

Alex have you come across any mushroom petroglyphs?

[@lindagolden9892]

Missed ya; hope you’re doing well in your neck of the woods or desert. 🌵

[@thoomin1926]

Wasn't that rock drawing with a bunch of lines a potential moon calendar? I know it has more than 30 lines but if you read from right to left the 30th line is short and you have dotted lines going towards the short line. But idk that is just my take.

[@lorrainecampbell6448]

It seems like this might have been a weigh station of sorts. There weren't many signs of established residence markers other than the one small set of mortars. I wonder if the petroglyphs were a form of communication among tribe members en route to more permanent destinations.

[@KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH]

Fascinating. Thanks for this window into the past. I bet Ric was there in 1913.

[@superpoof]

I worry that in your quest for knowledge, you are not watching for small legless creatures, I.E. Western Diamondback rattlesnakes. Please be careful. And thank you for another wonderful and informative video.

[@danzbutrfly]

I was thinking the same thing....and how sad that modern man tampered with these petroglyphs that Mr. Alex shows us.

[@marjoriegarner5369]

I was thinking about the "Rattlers" from my time as a kid with my grandparents, living there, in the 120- degree summers.

[@davislong9476]

When i die i hope Christ I'm granted to see what It was like back then and the meanings of all the Petroglyphs and life thousands of years ago even In the days of Noah I want to see it all....Thanks Alex

[@pickenit]

11:00 is it possible these could be bullet holes from vandals?

[@storiesbyalex]

Hello pickenit. I have encountered many a bullet holes around petroglyphs and they have a unique signature. However, it is possible that a shotgun blast onto a degraded boulder could produce similiar markings. Cupules are often smooth from rubbing/grinding, but then again a severely degraded boulder will loose this feature. So, sometimes based upon other factors at a site, it is a judgement call........................alex

[@gratefuldoge8598]

I have been finding petroglyphs and cupules on the Berkeley Mystery walls, after moving some stones and digging I found shards and points, there are even bone fragments right near the surface. The claim that the walls were made by recent settlers, colonizers, miners and pioneers is trash. The rock walls span almost the entirety of California and are clearly thousands of years old.

[@weswarren5987]

Yes !!!

[@TheLawCoyoteTLC]

The water is still there. Just needs to be pumped out

[@joedavis4150]

... almost everywhere I've been, crows are rude.

[@WollongongSkyWatch]

man will reach his highest self when he understands the language of birds.

[@marjoriegarner5369]

crows are intelligent, they know death is near, anytime you're in that mercilessly hot desert. Lived there in summers with grandparents. Sooo hot. Lots of lizards. Scorpions. Rattlers.

[@WollongongSkyWatch]

@@marjoriegarner5369 wow, what an amzing landscape to behold! Seek: Fable the Raven loves to talk.

[@ledauphindebourbon6956]

The interpretation of the lines will tell you simply that the artist had to be hit with a club on the head.

[@stanherman5604]

20,000 years ago half of North America was suppose to be under a mile of ice. So it stands to reason that the southwest would have been cooler and wetter.

[@RobinLynnGriffith]

Whoot! Looks like bigfoot to me 😀👣

[@returnofthegorgon8687]

Surely it couldn't be rifle bullet holes!!!

[@3eo3en73]

No u couldn't and wouldn't shoot a rock that close, the ricochet would get u in the balls....

[@returnofthegorgon8687]

It is called the maunder minimum, that's when they settled their.

[@returnofthegorgon8687]

If you want to re-see the art in real time, wait for the next micro nova, then ask a 7 year old child to draw what he seen!

[@marjoriegarner5369]

what he saw, not what he seen.

[@timothytousseau331]

Humans are the dominant species of the planet

[@owizzlebeezy123]

Woohooooooooo!

[@returnofthegorgon8687]

That's MS 13

[@Brooklynraised68]

Not lost civilizations but killed off very sad history

[@owizzlebeezy123]

Also... "water is the basis of life"... well, maybe not for long in CA!

[@sandycan2715]

i L O V E-> storiesbyalex

[@sapphirebeauregard5092]

I am so happy that you are documenting all of this ❤️ in Murrieta Ca during a fire at the springs, right after we explored and found many things here too. And obsidian arrow as well as other tools

[@PHARRAOH]

interesting and sad. It is sad the well went dry. Not far from where I live in (so ca) there is a wall, blocks long, built without concrete, several feet thick and chest high along side a road. It is unknown who built it or when. I am thinking right around the time missionaries lured out the native people from the mountains and into the flat lands to work on missions and such.

[@quailshootr6389]

0:37 "exceeds over 20,000 yrs ago" NONSENSE

[@storiesbyalex]

The word used was “Americas”, and this includes North, Central, and South America. There are archaeological sites in South America indicating that man was in that area over 20,000 years ago……….alex

[@quailshootr6389]

@@storiesbyalex I appreciate your videos. I actually ventured out to Sheep springs last weekend and checked everything out. It was a great adventure for us even tho we took trail roads starting out of Garlock which were pretty rough in my UTV.

[@davidallard1980]

I got to be the 420th liker :)