San Lorenzo Canyon - New Mexico
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Breathtaking skies and fascinating geological features are the hallmarks of this trail.
A sandstone masterpiece, San Lorenzo Canyon is home to caves, slots, hoodoos, pillars, springs and slickensides - geological striations in the rock, formed when fault blocks ground against each other long ago in this land before time.
A short drive up the San Lorenzo Arroyo brings you into this box canyon with a spring at its end. San Lorenzo, a desert canyon, hosts saltbush, rabbitbrush, yucca, tree cholla and prickly pear cacti as well as desert bighorn sheep, many bird species including roadrunners, and five - yes, five - types of rattlesnake so keep your hands and feet out of places you can't see!
There are countless opportunities for hiking and primitive camping along this pleasant desert trail. There are also many side canyons, slots, niches and crevices making it a great place to explore.
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Colorful aztec sandstone rock formation in the Valley of Fire State Park near Las Vegas Nevada
The Valley of Fire is a state park located 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. Its 46,000 acres are filled with red rock formations made from Aztec sandstone. On a sunny day, these rock formations look like they are on fire, giving the park its name, the Valley of Fire. Valley of Fire, in Nevada, is a state park known for its stunning red sandstone formations, which illuminate the valley, especially at sunset, making it look as though it’s on fire. Entwined with the valley’s sandstone rock are remnants of prehistoric locals and unparalleled vistas. Of all the things to do in Nevada, this is one Silver State experience you can’t miss. Visitors to the southern end of the state will find Valley of Fire State Park about 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas and just six miles from Lake Mead. Once in the park, visitors will have no trouble navigating because there is only one main road, which runs through the Valley of Fire Road. The road is also called the Valley of Fire Scenic Byway and is just under 11 miles and connects both the east and west entrances of Valley of Fire state park. Located in the Mojave Desert, Valley of Fire State Park has 46,000 acres of red Aztec sandstone which is blended with gray and tan colored limestone. The stunning landscape glows red for miles into the horizon and is particularly beautiful at sunset. The sandstone was formed by shifting sand dunes 150 million years ago.
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Drive Through El Malpais National Monument
Moving from Chicago, IL area to Tucson, Az area! During our drive we took a northern route and went through parts of New Mexico and Azionia that we have never been. We happened upon the El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico! The scenery there was breathe taking and here was an attempt to capture that. Some of the photos I took from my phone when we stopped are at the end of video! For sure a place I'd like to go back!
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American Southwest (#18): Arches National Park, Utah
Arches National Park ... water and ice, extreme temperatures, and underground salt movement are responsible for the sculptured rock scenery of Arches National Park. On clear days with blue skies, it is hard to imagine such violent forces, or the 100 million years of erosion, that created this land that boasts the greatest density of natural arches in the world. More than 2,000 cataloged arches range in size from a three-foot opening, the minimum considered an arch, to the longest one, Landscape Arch, which measures 306 feet from base to base.
Today, new arches are being formed and old ones are being destroyed. Erosion and weathering are relatively slow but are relentlessly creating dynamic landforms that gradually change through time. Occasionally change occurs more dramatically. In 1991 a slab of rock about 60 feet long, 11 feet wide, and four feet thick fell from the underside of Landscape Arch, leaving behind an even thinner ribbon of rock. Delicate Arch, an isolated remnant of a bygone fin, stands on the brink of a canyon, with the dramatic La Sal Mountains for a backdrop. Towering spires, pinnacles, and balanced rocks perched atop seemingly inadequate bases vie with the arches as scenic spectacles.
American Indians used the area for thousands of years. Archaic people, and later ancestral Puebloan, Fremont, and Utes searched the arid desert for game animals, wild plant foods, and stone for tools and weapons. They also left evidence of their passing on a few pictograph and petroglyph panels. The first white explorers came looking for wealth in the form of minerals.
Ranchers found wealth in the grasses for their cattle and sheep. John Wesley Wolfe, a disabled Civil War veteran, and his son, Fred, settled here in the late 1400s. A weathered log cabin, root cellar, and a corral remain as evidence of the primitive ranch they operated for more than 20 years.
Valley of Fire tour Nevada State Park 40,000 acres of bright red Aztec sandstone outcrops
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El Morro National Monument
Our first national park outside of Arizona was in New Mexico. Known as El Morro, a Spanish word meaning the headland or bluff.
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#ElMorro was a popular stop for travelers for over a thousand years, thanks to a watering hole that was a known reliable source of water year round. The water stays in a hole next to the bluff that is fed by spring rain waters that find there way down the side of the bluff.
This #NPS is free to visit, and also has RV and camping spots near by that are also free, but without any RV hookups. It does have vault toilets, and access to clean water.
The kids got their 13th Junior Ranger Badge as they learned the history of the many different people who traveled through this area. The sandstone bluff allowed travelers to easily leave inscriptions next to the already existing petroglyphs. These travelers included Spanish conquistadors, Mexican and U.S. military convoys, and pioneers.
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Lets go to El Morro National Monument
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I felt like going on a hike so we decided to go to El Morro National monument. It is located a few miles from Ramah, NM and has a hiking trail that leads up to the top. Known for a waterhole that is located on the base of the sandstone. There are a few carvings in the sandstone left by both ancestral tribes and Spanish and American travelers. There is a pueblo ruin located at the very top so that was fun to see. If you enjoy hiking and history this is a fun spot to visit. The trail is super easy so it is safe for kids and pets.
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Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area, New Mexico
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area is a little known region of fantastic eroded rocks in the high desert of northwest New Mexico. The rocks have a great variety of colors, especially distinctive being the brown-ochre of the badlands and yellow-orange of some of the hoodoos; other dominant shades are grey-white of the mud hills lining the valley floor, and deep black both of the badlands higher up, and scattered coal beds closer to the wash.
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From US Highway 550, 7.5 miles northwest of Nageezi, NM (which is 44.5 miles northwest of Cuba, NM) turn left onto NM 57. Drive south/southwest approximately 13.5 miles, at which point NM 57 forms the boundary of the WSA. For the next 4 ¾ miles, the WSA will be on your right.
Colorado Plateau
The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. The province covers an area of 337,000 km2 within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southern and eastern Utah, and northern Arizona. About 90% of the area is drained by the Colorado River and its main tributaries: the Green, San Juan, and Little Colorado.
The Colorado Plateau is largely made up of high desert, with scattered areas of forests. In the southwest corner of the Colorado Plateau lies the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Much of the Plateau's landscape is related, in both appearance and geologic history, to the Grand Canyon. The nickname Red Rock Country suggests the brightly colored rock left bare to the view by dryness and erosion. Domes, hoodoos, fins, reefs, goblins, river narrows, natural bridges, and slot canyons are only some of the additional features typical of the Plateau.
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The Impressive Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in Utah
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This YouTube video shows photos I have taken of the rock formations of Monument Valley at the Navajo Tribal Park. The park straddles the border of northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah of the Colorado Plateau. It covers an area of 28.7 Square miles and with its name means “Valley of the Rocks”. It preserves the Navajo way of life and has some of the most striking and recognizable landscapes of sandstone buttes, mesas and spires in the entire Southwest.
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White Mesa Arch
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Valley Of Fire State Park (Atlatl Rock) - Part 3
This footage was taken at Atlatl Rock site located in Valley of Fire State Park. You will see Petroglyphs (rock art) of ancient Pueblo Indians in this video.
Valley of Fire State Park is a natural preserve of bright red Aztec sandstone and tan and grey colored limestone. This park is located about 48 miles north east of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is an ideal day trip from Las Vegas and easily done in about 6 hours.
Maya civilization | Wikipedia audio article
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The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for its hieroglyphic script—the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas—as well as for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system. The Maya civilization developed in an area that encompasses southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. This region consists of the northern lowlands encompassing the Yucatán Peninsula, and the highlands of the Sierra Madre, running from the Mexican state of Chiapas, across southern Guatemala and onwards into El Salvador, and the southern lowlands of the Pacific littoral plain.
The Archaic period, prior to 2000 BC, saw the first developments in agriculture and the earliest villages. The Preclassic period (c. 2000 BC to 250 AD) saw the establishment of the first complex societies in the Maya region, and the cultivation of the staple crops of the Maya diet, including maize, beans, squashes, and chili peppers. The first Maya cities developed around 750 BC, and by 500 BC these cities possessed monumental architecture, including large temples with elaborate stucco façades. Hieroglyphic writing was being used in the Maya region by the 3rd century BC. In the Late Preclassic a number of large cities developed in the Petén Basin, and the city of Kaminaljuyu rose to prominence in the Guatemalan Highlands. Beginning around 250 AD, the Classic period is largely defined as when the Maya were raising sculpted monuments with Long Count dates. This period saw the Maya civilization develop a large number of city-states linked by a complex trade network. In the Maya Lowlands two great rivals, the cities of Tikal and Calakmul, became powerful. The Classic period also saw the intrusive intervention of the central Mexican city of Teotihuacan in Maya dynastic politics. In the 9th century, there was a widespread political collapse in the central Maya region, resulting in internecine warfare, the abandonment of cities, and a northward shift of population. The Postclassic period saw the rise of Chichen Itza in the north, and the expansion of the aggressive K'iche' kingdom in the Guatemalan Highlands. In the 16th century, the Spanish Empire colonized the Mesoamerican region, and a lengthy series of campaigns saw the fall of Nojpetén, the last Maya city, in 1697.
Classic period rule was centred on the concept of the divine king, who acted as a mediator between mortals and the supernatural realm. Kingship was patrilineal, and power would normally pass to the eldest son. A prospective king was also expected to be a successful war leader. Maya politics was dominated by a closed system of patronage, although the exact political make-up of a kingdom varied from city-state to city-state. By the Late Classic, the aristocracy had greatly increased, resulting in the corresponding reduction in the exclusive power of the divine king. The Maya civilization developed highly sophisticated artforms, and the Maya created art using both perishable and non-perishable materials, including wood, jade, obsidian, ceramics, sculpted stone monuments, stucco, and finely painted murals.
Maya cities tended to expand haphazardly, and the city centre would be occupied by ceremonial and administrative complexes, surrounded by an irregular sprawl of residential districts. Different parts of a city would often be linked by causeways. The principal architecture of the city consisted of palaces, pyramid-temples, ceremonial ballcourts, and structures aligned for astronomical observation. The Maya elite were literate, and developed a complex system of hieroglyphic writing that was the most advanced in the pre-Columbian Americas. The Maya recorded their history and ritual knowledge in screenfold books, of which only three uncontested examples remain, the rest having been dest ...
At the Crossroads of Politics and Progress: India’s Archaeological Heritage Since Independence
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This OP Jindal Distinguished Lecture Series is given by Nayanjot Lahiri. This is the second lecture in a two part series. The first lecture was titled, Are Archaeological Discoveries like Scientific Discoveries? The Curious Case of the Indus Civilization.
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Nayanjot Lahiri is Professor of History at Ashoka University. She was previously a professor in the Department of History at the University of Delhi. Educated at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and at the Department of History, University of Delhi, she taught at Hindu College from 1982 till 1993, and thereafter at the Department of History. She has served as Dean of Colleges at the University of Delhi from 2007 till 2010 and as Dean of International Relations from 2006 till 2007. Nayanjot Lahiri has been Member, Delhi Urban Art Commission (2007-2010), and currently serves on the Council of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and on the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society (New Delhi). She was also member of a committee set up by the Government of India in 2010 to analyse the impact of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment and Validation) Ordinance, 2010 and to draft an alternative bill for Parliament. The bill became law in March 2010.
Nayanjot Lahiri’s research interests include Ancient India, Indian archaeology, and heritage studies. She is author of Pre-Ahom Assam(1991), The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (upto c. 200 BC) (1992), Finding Forgotten Cities- How the Indus Civilization was Discovered (2005), Marshalling the Past: Ancient India and its Modern Histories (2012) and Ashoka in Ancient India (2015). She is co-author of Copper and its Alloys in Ancient India (1996), editor of The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization (2000), co-editor of Ancient India: New Research (2009), Buddhism in Asia – Revival and Reinvention (2016) and an issue of World Archaeologyentitled The Archaeology of Hinduism (2004). Her writings have also appeared in peer-reviewed journals like Antiquity, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, World Archaeology and Economic and Political Weekly. At present, she is working on a history of Indian archaeology since Independence.
Nayanjot Lahiri won the Infosys Prize 2013 in the Humanities-Archaeology. Ashoka in Ancient India was awarded the 2016 John F. Richards Prize by the American Historical Association for the best book in South Asian History.
Mario's Musical Odyssey (An Analysis of Super Mario Odyssey's Soundtrack, Part 1)
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Sculpture | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:12 1 Types
00:05:42 2 Purposes and subjects
00:12:38 3 Materials and techniques
00:15:09 3.1 Stone
00:17:11 3.2 Metal
00:20:50 3.3 Glass
00:21:54 3.4 Pottery
00:22:47 3.5 Wood carving
00:24:10 4 Social status of sculptors
00:26:40 5 Anti-sculpture movements
00:27:50 6 History
00:27:59 6.1 Prehistoric periods
00:28:08 6.1.1 Europe
00:30:19 6.1.2 Ancient Near East
00:31:11 6.2 Ancient Near East
00:34:46 6.3 Ancient Egypt
00:37:52 6.4 Europe
00:38:01 6.4.1 Ancient Greece
00:40:30 6.4.1.1 Classical
00:43:55 6.4.1.2 Hellenistic
00:48:21 6.4.2 Europe after the Greeks
00:48:30 6.4.2.1 Roman sculpture
00:54:48 6.4.2.2 Early Medieval and Byzantine
00:57:17 6.4.2.3 Romanesque
01:01:10 6.4.2.4 Gothic
01:04:38 6.4.3 Renaissance
01:07:55 6.4.4 Mannerist
01:10:15 6.4.5 Baroque and Rococo
01:12:49 6.4.6 Neo-Classical
01:13:51 6.5 Asia
01:13:59 6.5.1 Greco-Buddhist sculpture and Asia
01:16:34 6.5.2 China
01:19:41 6.5.3 Japan
01:22:14 6.5.4 India
01:25:14 6.5.5 South-East Asia
01:26:38 6.6 Islam
01:28:16 6.7 Africa
01:32:08 6.7.1 Ethiopia and Eritrea
01:33:20 6.7.2 Sudan
01:34:21 6.8 The Americas
01:35:13 6.8.1 Pre-Columbian
01:35:21 6.9 Moving toward modern art
01:35:30 6.9.1 North America
01:39:12 6.10 19th–early 20th century, early Modernism and continuing realism
01:42:56 7 Modernism
01:48:23 7.1 Gallery of modernist sculpture
01:48:33 7.2 Contemporary movements
01:50:25 7.3 Minimalism
01:50:34 7.3.1 Postminimalism
01:50:42 7.3.2 Contemporary genres
01:52:28 8 Conservation
01:53:40 9 See also
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Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded or cast.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in Central and South America and Africa.
The Western tradition of sculpture began in ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period. During the Middle Ages, Gothic sculpture represented the agonies and passions of the Christian faith. The revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures such as Michelangelo's David. Modernist sculpture moved away from traditional processes and the emphasis on the depiction of the human body, with the making of constructed sculpture, and the presentation of found objects as finished art works.