Colorado ~ Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings & The 3 Mountain Mural

Colorado. By request. A look at the Mesa Verde National Park ruins, one interesting mural and the story of Gustaf Nordenskiöld in the early 1900's.

"Mesa Verde National Park" by Donahos is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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[Jononland]

Pack your bags. It’s more amazing than one can imagine and inspiring at every turn

[williamkeith]

I have participated in archeological survey expeditions in the Four Corners area in the 1970s and there are sites all over the region. Many are accessible by perilous hand and footholds. It's apparent the people were very concerned about defensive safety. These people had gardens and water hollows on top of the mesas under which are the cliff houses. There were dried out straw moccasins and broken pottery, old piles of bedding material and tons of pictographs. Many of the subterranean kivas have collapsed but many still have ladders and hearths. Stones are dry stacked, some stone rooms are held together with clay mud; those look to be food storage graneries. No rooms have roofs; the branches and straw have caved in. The manos and metates for grinding nuts and berries and squashes are there. We never found bones, the areas where they grew squash are hard to spot in the creek areas due to seasonal flooding.

These people just sort of disappeared. It probably was drought coupled with outside invaders. Most of them moved South and East and became Puebloan people.

[rehoboth_farm]

I've been there. Hell, I grew up between Durango and Cortez close to a little town named Hesperus. We had several hundred acres where we grew beans, wheat and even sunflowers one year. We used to find arrow heads all over our property. We also would find grinding stones both the little round ones and one of the big flat ones they call a metate in Spanish. In fact I still have a basket full of them and still have the big metate. My family has carried a wire basket full of rocks around the country for the last 40 years. Strange. I have no idea where all of the arrow heads went though.
Oh, and yes, it is a pretty good representation of the site. It's funny because even when you are there and look at it from the opposite side it kind of looks like a little model. It's truly a giant complex. I think the tours used to lead you down on the bottom level. I remember standing on the edge of one of the kivas and looking down. I was just a kid though.

[MARLEYDIDIT]

the Anasazi of the 4 Corners never cease to amaze ...

[angiegross]

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One week a year they light up the dwellings on mesa with candles! Absolutely beautiful and high vibrational area. Thank you Chuck for sharing.

[stevenkaeser]

Been there in the 60s and 70s. Wonderful place.

[silversgtblindmancc]

It is always amazing to me how the history of the Mesa Verde is twisted and turned. My great Grandfather and great Uncle discovered the dwellings while searching for stray cattle. and my grandmother played among the dwellings as a little girl. Uncle Richard Wetherill saw the importance of the find and contacted a university back East and told them about it. He asked if he could help and they sent him outlines and instructions on how to preserves pack up and sent many artifacts to them. He sent hundreds of boxes of artifacts packed and photographed as they asked. It is my understanding they never opened many of the crates which are somewhere today. Each containing photos of where things where found and pictures of Grandpa and uncle in them. Then other archaeologist that came in later figured they had degrees and diplomas and only they could claim they found something. The easiest way for them to make it their claim was to accuse my relatives of stealing artifacts and de-legitimize my Uncles work. I don't care who wants to take credit, my family were cowboys (In a good way) and ranchers, but they did it the right way. I just hate seeing them written out of history.
They found dishes with food in them as if who ever was there just got up and left in an instant. Richard found a skeleton in one of the room of a very large man. Next to him was a large bow. He said it still had its spring and was hard to pull back even though this place had been abandon for many many years.
Richard tried to purchase some of the land in an effort to have control and stop the looting but that all fell through.
Teddy Roosevelt later visited my family on their ranch and take in the sites and use them as guides.
There is allot of mixed history out there but I have family records and history about the whole thing.
My thoughts were a fleeing group of Natives from the upper state of New York who wanted to get as far from the Eastern coast tribes as they could. They hid, they fortified, they were found and they ran. But that's a guess

[keithsteffen]

Been there many times and your right... it is way cool!!!. Another cool area near here is Hovenweep and Lowry ruins.. Keith

[brianmcrock]

Yes! I was there when I was a kid and I remember climbing up some of the ladders into rooms and imagining what it must have been like to live in there... as a kid... so high up a cliff... with ladders between rooms... so much fun yet potentially frightening at the same time! Very cool place to visit!

[murrayf]

I saw something similar many years ago on a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon. Nothing quite like looking down through the plexiglass floor just as the pilot crosses over the edge and drop off oh my god!! I can still remember that feeling lol.

[jetpetty]

Ive been to Mesa Verde twice. Ive learned so much more about it - I want to go back soon

[bethbloomer]

Yay! I grew up in Colorado and have been to Mesa Verde many times. It does not appear to be as ancient as historians would have us believe. If you go to any of the ruins in this area, there are unrecognized petroglyphs all over the place. I noticed the same thing while rafting down the Grand Canyon.

[laurah]

Thank you, again, Chuck, for another informative, beautifully made video. Appreciate all the work you put in to provide us with info we might otherwise be unaware of. Much gratitude. <3

[lynderherberts]

You've made the BEST informative video I've ever seen on these dwellings. Thanks bunches.
Have a lovely year.

[billysharp]

I used to live in cortez colorado right at the bottom of the mesa.. iv seen this with my own eyes.. it's amazing.. huge

[tylerlabine]

chuck has one of the best channels on yt for this type of content. he finds places that are not known by everyone frequently. he doesnt try to package his opinions as facts. he even has links in the description to help you get started with your own research if ur interested. thanks chuck

[johnfugate]

Been thru colorado a thousand times and today is the first time seeing this thanks

[allenmaner]

Had the pleasure of touring the ruins back when I was a very young man 1968 and again in 1974.

[olivercook]

Great video, thanks for bringing those interior murals to my attention. Very suggestive indeed.

[jpopbakkari]

I was here about 13 years ago. It was extremely fascinating!