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.

[klmoo]

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

[RonnieWisdom]

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

[wesleyswaters]

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.

[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.

[johnmcnulty]

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?

[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.

[thomasmurray]

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

[WesternStarproductions]

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

[denboe]

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.

[lockyraglus]

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

[luperamos]

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.

[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

[jaywalker]

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

[luperamos]

Why not give people a road to get there?

[johnclark]

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

[avail.]

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