Yucca House NM ( Colorado) and Four Corners!!
One of the smallest and least known sites run by the National Park service. No maps, no signs, parking on private property. We also took a drive down and visited the famous Four Corners monument( Navajo)
Yucca National Monument Not, Colorado A Total Waste of Time
This would be hilarious if it weren’t the truth!!!
You can’t make this up!
What was President Woodrow Wilson thinking when he proclaimed this site as a National Monument on December 19, 1919? There is also a coin to commemorate it, and most of the ruin is on the face of it.
DO NOT PLAN YOUR TRIP OR VACATION Around Yucca National Monument/Park
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Yucca National Monument. What A Total Waste, and Waste of Time!!
Getting to this is also a joke, it is on a county road, then turns into private land with no trespassing signs posted in several locations. We first thought a old shack was it, but ventured on thinking we would hear gun shots at any time. Drove past a gate that had private land, no trespassing, with no place to turn around, we drove in and in the process saw a treated walkway with railing, and the Yucca National Monument sign hanging on a gate at the end of the walkway. Still fearing for our lives, we got out to investigate it, waiting on a crack of a gun going off. To our disbelief, there was a pile of rubbish on a cow patty laden path, and a brick wall at the end. Climbing to the top of the mound, we discovered that it we were standing on the entire ruins, with the width 1/3 the length of the entire site. To think that this pile of rubbish surrounded by private land is a National Monument is totally mind blowing! If it really has historical value, there is no signs or respect visible anywhere except cow droppings! Total Disrespect if it is to be respected!!
Yucca House National Monument
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Yucca House National Monument is a United States National Monument located in Montezuma County, Colorado between the towns of Towaoc (headquarters of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe) and Cortez, Colorado. Yucca House is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site.
Geography
Yucca House National Monument is located in the Montezuma Valley at the foot of Sleeping Ute Mountain, called mountain with lots of yucca growing on it by the Ute people, and inspiration for the name of the national monument.
History
The site is one of many Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) village sites located in the Montezuma Valley occupied between AD 1100 and 1300 by 13,000 people.
Two unexcavated settlement areas covered in vegetation include:
• Western Complex was a large pueblo of up to 600 rooms, 100 kivas and a giant, perhaps community, kiva. A spring runs through the complex. A large building about 80 × 100 feet, Upper House, was made of adobe. The ruins are about 12 to 15 feet high, but may have been twice that height.
• Lower House is an L-shaped pueblo 200 feet by 180 inches with a plaza, 8 small rooms 7 × 2 feet and a large kiva
Nearby were the ancient pueblo village of Mud Springs at the head of McElmo Canyon[4] and Navajo Springs, was the original site of the Ute Mountain Indian Agency south of Sleeping Ute Mountain in the early 1900s.
Like other nearby Ancient Pueblo peoples, the Yucca House pueblo dwellers abandoned their homes, but because a major excavation has not been completed it is not known when, or if there is a relationship between these people and those of nearby pueblo settlements.
Archaeological study and excavation
The following archaeological studies were conducted:[2][7]
• William Henry Holmes visited in 1875 and in 1878 produced a report for the United States Geological Survey. Holmes erroneously named the land Aztec Springs believing that ruins were the home of a band of Aztecs. He created the initial map of the ruins.
Holmes reports: These ruins form the most imposing pile of masonry yet found in Colorado. The whole group covers an area of about 480,00 square feet, and has an average depth of from 3 to 4 feet. [...] The stone used is chiefly of the fossiliferous limestone that outcrops along the base of the Mesa Verde a mile or so away.
• In 1918 J. Walter Fewkes studied and remapped the ruins
• An excavation was completed by the Museum of Natural History in New York in the late 1910s led by Earl Morris and, in the 5th year of excavation led by Dr. Clark Wissler. Wissler found that the interior walls of the remarkable shrine room were painted white with a red border and the floor covered with expertly cut slabs of stone, similar to one of the rooms at the Mesa Verde National Park. A sacred 2½ foot serpent was carved into wood at the ceiling.
• In two separate projects in 1964, Al Lancaster studied the area and stabilized the masonry wall of Lower House in 1964 and Al Schroeder found that some of Upper House was constructed of adobe, quite rare for sites built in the 13th century
• Studies were conducted in the late 1990s following the donation of additional acreage which expanded the number of sites. The study included analysis of pottery on the new site and remapping the site with modern technology.
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Colorado is truly spectacular! The Rocky Mountains, brilliant blue skies, ferocious storms, snow, steep canyons, swift cascading rivers, giant sand dunes, sandstone pinnacles, high desert ancient cliff dwellings and dinosaurs. At least that is what this program on Colorado is all about. Featured parks include: Rocky Mountain National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park, Colorado National Monument, Curecanti National Recreation Area, Dinosaur National Monument, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Yucca House National Monument
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00:00:19 1 Geography
00:00:42 2 History
00:02:01 3 Archaeological study and excavation
00:04:23 4 National monument
00:05:36 5 See also
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Yucca House National Monument is a United States National Monument located in Montezuma County, Colorado between the towns of Towaoc (headquarters of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe) and Cortez, Colorado. Yucca House is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site.
Canyons of the Ancients
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Hovenweep National Monument, Utah
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Hovenweep National Monument, UT
Today we traveled to another great lessor known destination, Hovenweep National Monument in Utah! Hovenweep is a unique canyon that holds many archeological sites where ancestors of today's Pueblo Indian tribes lived. Round, square and D-shaped towers grouped at the canyon edges mark a once-thriving Pueblo community from around 1200 AD. Surprisingly, many of the structures are still intact and quite large and imposing as you walk up to them! There is a fantastic 2 mile trail all around the canyon edge that is a beautiful hike to see all of the ruins!
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What is Montezuma County, Colorado?, Explain Montezuma County, Colorado
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Description: Montezuma County is the southwesternmost of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 25,535. The county seat is Cortez.Mesa Verde National Park, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Yucca House National Monument, and Hovenweep National Monument preserve hundreds of ancient Amerindian structures, including the famous cliff-dwellings, found in the county. Montezuma County is also home to most of the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation, home of the Weeminuche Band of the Ute Nation, known as the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, with its headquarters at Towaoc.
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Joshua Tree Forest Arizona Route 93 HD
Near Nothing Arizona. Yes, the place is actually named Nothing. But the Joshua Tree's are amazing.
Joshua trees occur in patches across several Southwest states, wherever conditions of temperature, drainage and rainfall are suitable. Apart from Joshua Tree National Park, the plant is quite common across all the Mojave Desert and hence occurs in parts of south Nevada, extreme southwest Utah and northeast Arizona, favoring elevations between 3,000 and 4,000 feet. The trees grow strongly, for example, along US 93 between Kingman and Wickenburg in Arizona; this road is known as the Joshua Forest Parkway and seems to have even more Joshuas than the national park, intermingled with that other distinctive symbol of the Southwest, the saguaro. Two other prime locations, both in Arizona, are the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness and Grapevine Mesa, around the road to Pearce Ferry near Lake Mead, where particularly dense forests of old trees stretch for many miles. North of the national park, the Mojave National Preserve also contains vast Joshua plantations, especially the region north and west of Cima. One less well known location is Saddleback Butte State Park, between Palmdale and Victorville.
The Yucca: The Joshua tree is actually a species of yucca (Yucca Brevifolia), that can reach a height of 50 feet and is believed to live for up to 1,000 years although they are difficult to date accurately - as they are not proper trees, there are no annual growth rings. A large cluster of white or greenish flowers can appear at the end of each stem from March to May, but this requires just the right combination of springtime temperature and moisture, and several years may pass without a major blooming. Plants start to form the familiar branched appearance when they are 6 to 10 feet tall and several decades old, with new stems forming only after a flowering. The tree was first named by Mormon pioneers in the nineteenth century, who thought that the upturned branches resembled the arms of the prophet Joshua, pointing the way to the promised land.
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Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico
The Pueblo people have lived in the American Southwest for many centuries. Archeologists think they are descended from nomadic hunting and gathering people who came into the region 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
The Pueblo culture originated in the Four Corners Area (where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado meet), but it was not uniform from group to group.
Cultural differences, over time and from place to place, are reflected in such surviving remnants as architecture and pottery.
Early archeologists, studying the old dwellings for clues to their former inhabitants, adopted the Navajo term Anasazi to refer to the ancestors of Pueblo people before the coming of the Spanish. The ancient people of the Bandelier area, like Puebloan ancestors elsewhere, were farmers, who grew maize (corn), beans, and squash.
They supplemented their diets with native plants and by hunting and trapping deer, rabbits, squirrels, other mammals, and birds. They made clothing from animal skins and traded for cotton, which they wove into garments. They ingeniously made winter blankets from fibers of the yucca plant interwoven with turkey feathers or strips of rabbit skin.
Tools, including a wide variety of axes, mauls, and knives, were fashioned from animal bones, wood, and such local stone as obsidian and basalt. The people obtained other items, such as shell, turquoise, and parrots, through trade networks that ranged as far as central Mexico and Baja California.
The Puebloan ancestors occupied the Bandelier area for nearly 500 years. With less than half the monument surveyed, more than 2,400 sites have been located, but not all sites were inhabited at the same time.
For generations the people lived in small, scattered settlements, each consisting of perhaps only one or two families. Then from about A.D. 1150 to 1325, sometimes called the Rio Grande Coalition Period, the population increased. People began coming together in larger groups and, by the end of the period, villages (pueblos) often included as many as 40 rooms.
The following two and a half centuries, called the Rio Grande Classic Period, were characterized by fewer and larger pueblos, some exceeding 600 rooms, and by the prevalence of very small structures that archeologists call field houses and believe show seasonal dispersal to agricultural fields. Ceremonial rooms called kivas were up to three times larger in classic times and may reflect a changing role in ritual or social life.
The Village of TyuonyiThe pueblo of Tyuonyi and its adjacent cave dwellings in Bandelier are examples from the Rio Grande Classic Period, which ended in the late 1500s when the Spanish colonized New Mexico, bringing immense change to the American Southwest.
The modern Pueblo people have oral traditions that link them to the past, but no written record existed before the coming of the Spanish. Archeologists trying to decipher the relationships of modern pueblo villages to various early sites are often puzzled. Differences in pottery suggest that the people who lived in the part of Bandelier called Tsankawi were different from the people who lived in the rest of the monument.
Today, the Puebloans immediately to the north and east of Bandelier speak Tewa while those to the south speak Keres. What was the relationship between the people of these language groups in ancestral times? The dwellings in Bandelier may hold the answer.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
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Hovenweep National Monument campground drive through and review
We camped at the Hovenweep National Monument campgrounds and were impressed with the cleanliness of the facilities, the feeling remoteness and the beautiful night skies. The ruins at Hovenweep it's ruins are great too. We walked the trails and it seemed like we were the only ones there. Also.....we had the best site because it was the handicap site. We pulled in late at night and didn't see the sign.
Archaeology in the Southwest: To Collect or Not?
Archaeology in the Southwest: To Collect or Not?
T.J. Ferguson, Archaeologist and Professor, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Don Whyte, Chief Ranger, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Elysia Poon (Moderator), IARC program coordinator, School for Advanced Research
IARC Speaker Series, SAR Boardroom
Thursday, March 14, 2013, 12:00--1:00 pm, Free
Did you know it is illegal to collect pottery sherds and stone tools from public lands? Noted Southwest archaeologist T.J. Ferguson and Chaco Culture National Historical Park Chief Ranger Don Whyte discuss how to navigate the legalities surrounding archaeology in the Southwest and whether or not there is a way to be a responsible collector.
This lecture is part of the 2013 Speaker Series of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research. The series, titled Ethics, Aesthetics, and Preservation of the Arts, is geared toward individuals and institutions interested in collecting and working with cultural materials. Speakers will delve into the various legal and ethical issues surrounding art collecting and preservation, and offer some best-practice guidelines.
T. J. Ferguson is a professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, where he edits the Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona. He also owns Anthropological Research LLC, a research company in Tucson, Arizona, that specializes in archaeological and ethnographic research needed for historic preservation, repatriation, and litigation of land and water rights. Ferguson holds a Masters of Community and Regional Planning (1986) and a PhD in Anthropology (1993) from the University of New Mexico. For three decades, he has conducted archaeological, ethnographic, and historical research of Pueblo and Apache tribes in the Southwest. He is the author of three books: A Zuni Atlas (1985, with E. Richard Hart), Historic Zuni Architecture and Society: An Archaeological Application of Space Syntax (1996), and History is in the Land: Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley (2006, with Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh). He has also authored numerous articles and book chapters on the archaeology and cultural landscapes of the Southwest.
Don Whyte (Ute Mountain Ute) grew up in the heart of Ute (Mesa Verde) country in Towaoc, Colorado. Early on, Whyte's parents made him aware of the cliff dwellings, Pueblo surface sites, and all the archaeological resources on his reservation. They felt that it was critical to know these resources despite the cultural taboos most of his tribal members observed.
In the late seventies, Whyte worked as a tribal tour guide for the Ute Mountain Tribal Park, where he conducted regular day tours and special request tours in the park. He then went on to work as a federal law enforcement officer/ US park ranger at Mesa Verde National Park (Yucca House National Monument), Hovenweep National Monument, Petroglyph National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Haleakala National Park, Death Valley National Park, and many other cultural resource-related national parks in the West. Currently, Whyte is chief ranger at Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
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Mesa Verde National Park | Wikipedia audio article
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Mesa Verde National Park
00:02:00 1 Inhabitants
00:02:09 1.1 Paleo-Indians
00:03:24 1.2 Archaic
00:05:34 1.3 Basketmaker culture
00:09:04 1.4 Ancestral Puebloans
00:09:13 1.4.1 Pueblo I: 750 to 900
00:12:45 1.4.2 Pueblo II: 900 to 1150
00:15:30 1.4.3 Pueblo III: 1150 to 1300
00:19:17 1.4.4 Warfare
00:21:44 1.4.5 Migration
00:24:40 1.4.6 Organization
00:25:47 1.4.7 Architecture
00:28:05 1.4.8 Astronomy
00:29:18 1.4.9 Agriculture and water-control systems
00:32:12 1.4.10 Hunting and foraging
00:34:00 1.4.11 Pottery
00:37:17 1.4.12 Rock art and murals
00:39:19 2 Anthropogenic ecology, geography, and climate
00:41:22 3 Geology
00:44:36 4 Rediscovery
00:46:56 4.1 Wetherills
00:48:27 4.2 Gustaf Nordenskiöld
00:49:22 5 National Park
00:52:31 5.1 Excavation and protection
00:53:56 5.2 Conflicts with Local Tribes
00:56:19 5.3 Services
00:58:26 5.4 Wildfires and culturally modified trees
01:00:11 5.5 Ute Mountain Tribal Park
01:00:59 6 Key sites
01:01:23 6.1 Balcony House
01:02:16 6.2 Cliff Palace
01:03:07 6.3 Long House
01:04:05 6.4 Mug, Oak Tree, Spruce Tree, and Square Tower houses
01:05:09 7 See also
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Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. The park protects some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in the United States.
Established by Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, the park occupies 52,485 acres (21,240 ha) near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. With more than 5,000 sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States. Mesa Verde (Spanish for green table) is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America.
Starting c. 7500 BCE, Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. Later, Archaic people established semi-permanent rockshelters in and around the mesa. By 1000 BCE, the Basketmaker culture emerged from the local Archaic population, and by 750 CE the Ancestral Puebloans had developed from the Basketmaker culture.
The Mesa Verdeans survived using a combination of hunting, gathering, and subsistence farming of crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They built the mesa's first pueblos sometime after 650, and by the end of the 12th century, they began to construct the massive cliff dwellings for which the park is best known. By 1285, following a period of social and environmental instability driven by a series of severe and prolonged droughts, they abandoned the area and moved south to locations in Arizona and New Mexico, including Rio Chama, Pajarito Plateau, and Santa Fe.
ROAD TRIP USA VLOG 35 wilde coyotes, zoutvlaktes en oude mijnen
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We rijden via de outback van Searles Valley naar Death Valley. We zien de eerste zoutvlaktes en hebben een onverwachte encounter met een groepje wilde coyotes, die wel heel nieuwsgierig zijn. We reserveren een campingplaats en gaan naar het Visitor Center om onze hikes te plannen. Het is heet aan het worden, Death Valley is dan ook de oven van Amerika. Onderweg naar onze eerste hike kruist een dust devil ons pad.
Vijf weken lang trekken we rond en we doorkruizen negen staten waar we zoveel mogelijk natuurparken bezoeken. We slapen in het wild, of als het niet anders kan, op campings in de parken.
We drive through the outback of Searles Valley to Death Valley. We see the first salt planes and have an encounter with wild coyotes, who are very nosy. We reserve a place at a campingsite and head to the Visitor Center where we plan our hikes for the next few days. It’s getting hot. Death Valley isn’t named the furnace of the USA for nothing. Than, a dust devil is in our way!
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Lake Piru (CA)
Malibu State Park (CA)
Satswiwa View (CA)
Point Mugu State Park (CA)
Sequoia National Park (CA)
Yosemite National Park (CA)
Hooverdam (NV)
Lake Mead State Park (NV)
Valley of Fire State Park (NV)
Area 51 (NV)
Cedar Breaks National Park (UT)
Zion National Park (UT)
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park (UT)
Red Canyon (UT)
Brice Canyon National Park (UT)
Kodakchrome Basin State Park (UT)
Bull Valley Gorge (UT)
Willis Creek (UT)
Little Wild Horse Canyon (UT)
Goblin Valley State Park (UT)
Dinosaur Stomping Grounds (UT)
Copper Ridge Dinosaur Tracks (UT)
Arches National Park (UT)
Dead Horse Point State Park (UT)
Fifth Water Hot Springs (UT)
Dinosaur National Monument (UT)
Dinosaur Quarri (UT)
Harpers Corner (CO)
Newspaper Rock (UT)
Natural Bridges National Monument (UT)
Mesa Verde (CO)
Monument Valley (AZ)
Grand Canyon NR (AZ)
Grand Teton National Park (WY)
Yellow Stone National Park (WY)
Craters of the Moon (ID)
Red Giants National Park (CA)
Death Valley National Park (CA)
Mojave National Preserve (CA)
Joshua Tree National Park (CA)
Big Morongo Bird Preserve (CA)
Whitewater Preserve (CA)
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Fort Matanzas National Monument
After just a short drive on A1A south, you will arrive at Fort Matanzas National Monument. Located in beautiful and sunny Saint Augustine Beach, this destination is great for families, nature lovers and history buffs.
Fort Matanzas National Monument
St Augustine
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