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Excellent presentation.

Technological Futility ends at 11:13 & lecture begins

he won't "belabor" the "no external genitalia" cause for "going extinction" -

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Excellent talk! Always enjoy hearing Lekson speak--he stays away from jargon and talks using plain language. Incredible ideas to think about.

The Anasazi descended from the Fremonts, the first peoples in the region. The Fremont People moved out onto the clifftops, while the Four Corners area was still flooded. As the water levels dropped, they moved onto the cliffsides, and when the water finally fell far enough, out onto the prairies, where they became Anasazi. The last of them lived in Glen Canyon, surviving perhaps to later times, but lost to history by their isolation. These people came from far away, taking a Long Walk, arriving in central Utah circa the 7th Century BC, and in the Four Corners around the time of Jesus. Long before "the end", other Anasazi had ventured on, to interact with other peoples in distant places. Eventually, some of these later peoples trekked back to New Mexico and Arizona, to become modern-day Navajos, Apaches, Kiowas, and other desert tribes, around the beginning of the 15th Century. The idea they didn't "move north of the San Juan River (including Mesa Verde and Hovenweep) is patently ridiculous. Those are older than Chaco, built while the water was still very deep. When Hovenweep was built, the water level was probably at the location of the road that swings around it, to the southwest, making it a "beachfront community", for a while. Mesa Verde was built in the closing century of the 1st Millennium BC, by people who'd skirted the water's perimeter, through Colorado, from their starting point in central Utah. Chaco was abandoned because water had retreated so far, the Chacoans were traveling 30 miles, one way, to replenish supplies. How much water did an Anasazi need for survival? Probably only a little less than modern humans. If they ate beans, as I have seen suggested, they require a fair amount of water, to become edible. Corn, too, requires water, to human consumption. Everything screams, "Water!" in a climate bereft of reliable water. What are we to think? Things were very different, in the 1st Millennium BC. a lake almost 400 miles in diameter lay across the Four Corners, explaining the massive signs of water erosion common in the region (I've been more than passing familiar with it since the early 'Fifties), including "bathtub rings", hoodoos, and Grand Canyons. It all speaks to incredible amounts of running water, trapped for almost three millennia, then slowly draining, speeding up in the closing decades. Lake Superior is said to have so much water, it would take 191 YEARS for it to "drain". This was close to three times as much SITTING water, plus more than half-again as much, that spilled over the Mogollon Rim, the Kaibab Plateau, and out the western side, into the Parashant. The racing waters denuded the mesas of Monument Valley, stripped the flanks off Tsé Bitʼaʼí, and carved the wonders of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northeastern Arizona, and the related territories around them, as the restless waters strove to escape their earthly bonds. Eventually, they succeeded, drained away, and the Anasazi walked away in search of greener pastures! Leaving historians to seek their favorite "Six Blind Indian Fakirs Describing an Elephant to the Rajah" "reasons. If you'll notice, the map of Anasazi "Great Houses" shows a preponderance on the northeastern corner, spreading around, and down, then moving closer to the exit point for the waters, the entry to the Grand Canyon, the artefact gouged by upwards of 50 billion acre-feet of water (if my calculations are correct), that passed over, and through the region, leaving the landscape we know, today. The Anasazi were "following" the water, as it found the lowest levels, on its trek toward the distant sea. The racing waters denuded the mesas of Monument Valley, stripped the flanks off Tsé Bitʼaʼí, and carved the wonders of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northeastern Arizona, and the related territories around them, as the restless waters strove to escape their earthly bonds. Eventually, they succeeded, drained away, and the Anasazi walked away in search of greener pastures! Leaving historians to seek their favorite "Six Blind Indian Fakirs Describing an Elephant to the Rajah" "reasons. The valley viewed from Chimney Rock testifies to the amount, and the violence, of the water. Water came in at tsunami speeds, raced toward blockages, and high points, blowing many out of the way in short order. Water weighs a stunning 62.4 pounds per cubic foot, so a depth of 1,000 feet represents a total weight of 31 tons per foot of width. Some areas were scoured by water rushing a mile wide, meaning there was a force of 165 thousand tons on the move! The "wave" that hit Monument Valley was probably closer to 2,500 feet high (or deep), and the northern entry (direction water was coming from) is eight miles across. The desert north of that is a 33-mile-wide basin, now carved by the goosenecks of the San Juan River, on its path to join the Colorado. Water played a crucial role in the creation of the American Southwest, and a vital role in its initial "colonization" by Fremonts and Anasazis. When it drained away, there was no good reason to stay, so the latter-day Anasazi moved on, in search of greener pastures. Who could blame them? Oh, and all that wood? It was detritus brought by the "floodwaters", some of it left in a toxic pool east of Winslow, to dry out, and become the "Petrified Forest". This "toxicity" was caused by chemicals leached out of the soil by the rushing waters, as they "carved" the canyons. The region is today a wonderland of "chemical products", from mining and oil/gas-drilling. A little east, near Telluride, is a mountain where quartz crystals lay scattered across the slopes in profusion, and watershed drainage is toward the area of the "forest". The raging waters tore up even the long-dried-out strata of ancient seabeds, gouging great valleys and canyons out of them. Whatever the area had looked like, it was changed forever, with only a few mountaintop meadows left, here and there, to represent the very ancient world that had existed. Not that these events were all that long ago, a maximum of 5,000 years, plus or minus a century or two. This is the history of the American Southwest, not "millions of years ago" in the making, but within the memory of Man, even if none were in the area, or survived, if they were. The hoodoos, tufas, and rocks balanced atop spindly spires would not be here, if it had been anything even close to that kind of timeline!

Hmmmmm.

Nice video! CRIA does great work! Keep em coming 👍😎

Pavansinom vs Savungsinom?

Great “houses” are for ceremonies. Maybe houses for the gods, but it is not reliable evidence for assuming there were rich greedy nobles and dirt cheap commoners. All of these “noble” archaeological findings are in present day ceremonies and are strictly used for that.

That’s no Native American ruin! Bull crap.

I visited yesterday. What an amazing place!

Great presentation, Emily!

Great presentation!

This is an interesting idea that the Pueblos developed as a response to and reaction against the politics of Chaco... A few minutes later you mention this idea that when Teotihuacan collapsed, it sent out ripples of nobility. I have questions. Seems like when big things collapse the nobles get beheaded or burned or blamed generally? The French Revolution...? The Russian Revolution...? Which is maybe unfair, but maybe more fair as they have probably also been taking credit for things they have no control over like the rain and good weather and soil fertility in good times. Perhaps the ripples of civilization that spread in the aftermath of the AD 600 collapse were in turn political or religious reactions against the previous system, in one way or another.

What if they built the "towers" because they looked cool/impressive to people who were approaching? Likely if they could have built four or five or six stories they would have, just to demonstrate wealth/social influence, assuming the "towers" were built by well-paid craftsmen of the day. In other words, the towers could be a kind of banal status symbol, like keeping up with the Joneses. The "Utilitarian" Cadillac Escalade of their day. You can't really go higher than two or three stories with this kind of masonry, unless it's built into an alcove. In which case it is obviously not a "tower." Hey we need a better view from this high cliff alcove with the crazy view...?

It seems like rooms 50&51 are the small farm that sold to the big corporation. So they tore it down and built the Aztec complex in the exact same spot. As opposed to Pueblo Bonito where the earliest part is added onto. (unless there were older constructions razed under Bonito, I don't know.)The small farm had proved profitable over the past couple of decades. It doesn't seem like it takes an entire generation or more, 20+ years, to scout and layout the location for a new complex, seems like it would take a few months or a year at the most. It shouldn't take more than 9-12 months to figure out where your solstice alignments are.

It's a fantastic place!

The tower kivas are fascinating. Trying to visualize both types, the wedding cake and the yellow jacket tower. Either one would merge the underworld associated w the kiva with the sky through the height of the tower.

That was disappointing, it is incomplete.

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