Thanks Alex, this series is entertaining and informative. Your narration is excellent too. We just came back from El Camino del Diablo - a thousand-year old trail crossing the Sonoran Desert. It was about as vacant and lifeless as a place can be. The Mojave is far more interesting.
Fascinating.the shear cut of the well wall , as well as all their recording of stories and directions to others give sense to their importance and kindred.
thank you for showing us all these places in california. i live in san bernardino county and all these locations are relatively close by and i never knew....time to go roadtrippin
Was that a pic of Darrell holding a snake? Love your videos Alex while watching they sometimes take me back when I was a kid. I would go camping with my grandparents and we visited different places in Cali I would come across village or gathering sites of the ancient natives so much fun:)
Love your show, Alex! You can read my article on the Southern California origins of the Aztec Empire in the digital or print edition of the May 2023 Inland Empire magazine.
+greatbasinman Its amazing to think of who or how it was decided hundreds if not thousands of years ago to dig down at that very spot adjacent to a vertical boulder/fault to find water.....
@@jeffreygreer That's a good point. We always assume that the natives were peaceful, spiritual, etc. But I read an account recorded by a friar who accompanied Sebastian Vizcaino's expedition to San Diego in 1602. A native told him that they would decapitate any other indian who crossed into their hunting grounds. BAM!
I believe that is a fish not a snake! You wouldn't believe just how much life is in underground streams and rivers! And many ancients used fish skins as clothing so those grinding stones might have been used to soften dried fish skins!
Art, I traveled to that site in my Suburban, but it was in two wheel drive. Often on these trails a high clearance vehicle is the more important feature. It is a sandy area and it has been about 4 years since my visit to the area and things might have changed. So, I am hesitant to say that a 2 wheel vehicle is okay.............................alex
+tuledude89 Hey Tuledude, glad to hear from you. This Friday I am heading back to Arizona to try to locate a place called Hummingbird Point along the Gila River. Rattlers should be out - 90+ temperatures.....alex
The 5 squares with the cross inside indicates in my opinion, 5 mouths to feed in the family unit! It resembles the Paleo'Chinese pictograph for garden, with one square representing the mouth of God! The square represents a mouth!
How is this area protected / maintained? I don’t want to hear that the well is full of Gatorade bottles or that more people have followed the poor example of the graffiti vandals of 1912.
Thanks Alex, this series is entertaining and informative. Your narration is excellent too. We just came back from El Camino del Diablo - a thousand-year old trail crossing the Sonoran Desert. It was about as vacant and lifeless as a place can be. The Mojave is far more interesting.
Fascinating.the shear cut of the well wall , as well as all their recording of stories and directions to others give sense to their importance and kindred.
Awesome education. Really appreciate your videos! Can't wait for the next one!
your work is astonishing on so many levels i will need to get
a new compass to get my bearing backs on earth
peppered burns, thanks for watching and your kind words........................alex
They were definitely smart . They lived with out government , yet they had culture and way of life . This makes them wise .
thank you for showing us all these places in california. i live in san bernardino county and all these locations are relatively close by and i never knew....time to go roadtrippin
Was that a pic of Darrell holding a snake? Love your videos Alex while watching they sometimes take me back when I was a kid. I would go camping with my grandparents and we visited different places in Cali I would come across village or gathering sites of the ancient natives so much fun:)
Love your show, Alex! You can read my article on the Southern California origins of the Aztec Empire in the digital or print edition of the May 2023 Inland Empire magazine.
A beauty to behold .
That well sure seems to be "advertised", would have been a welcome sight for parched travelers for centuries!!!
+greatbasinman Its amazing to think of who or how it was decided hundreds if not thousands of years ago to dig down at that very spot adjacent to a vertical boulder/fault to find water.....
the natives would have killed any traveler outside their tribe in that desert
@@jeffreygreer That's a good point. We always assume that the natives were peaceful, spiritual, etc. But I read an account recorded by a friar who accompanied Sebastian Vizcaino's expedition to San Diego in 1602. A native told him that they would decapitate any other indian who crossed into their hunting grounds. BAM!
When (Lake Cahuilla?) the Salton Sea Basin was full would possibly be when the Well was used?
Very nice, Alex.
Interesting the ones we have here in Tucson are very small😊
did they cut that well out of rock or was that dirt?
Hello Jeffrey, the well was dug in dirt parallel to the large boulder, which ran deeper than the well...................alex
I believe that is a fish not a snake! You wouldn't believe just how much life is in underground streams and rivers! And many ancients used fish skins as clothing so those grinding stones might have been used to soften dried fish skins!
Is 4x4 recommended for this trail?
Art, I traveled to that site in my Suburban, but it was in two wheel drive. Often on these trails a high clearance vehicle is the more important feature. It is a sandy area and it has been about 4 years since my visit to the area and things might have changed. So, I am hesitant to say that a 2 wheel vehicle is okay.............................alex
Thanks a lot
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4:36 wood?
And you can use snakeskin to hold water
Hi Alex! It's been a while. Hope you are doing well. Still enjoying your videos.
Hello Patrick, thanks for watching and the kind words. Keep on trekking.............alex
At 12:14... That graffiti says April 12
and 1912.
Not April 19
Not 1919.
Another great tour Alex, thanks ... You sure your not hiring? Lol snake wrangler maybe
+tuledude89 Hey Tuledude, glad to hear from you. This Friday I am heading back to Arizona to try to locate a place called Hummingbird Point along the Gila River. Rattlers should be out - 90+ temperatures.....alex
Water bearer??tire changer,camp cook,lol you have the best job in the world
With petroglyphs nobody can tell you if you are right……or wrong! 👍👍👍
zig zag line.... Birkeland Currents... The message.... catastrophe from the heavens a la Velikovsky...
The 5 squares with the cross inside indicates in my opinion, 5 mouths to feed in the family unit! It resembles the Paleo'Chinese pictograph for garden, with one square representing the mouth of God!
The square represents a mouth!
How is this area protected / maintained?
I don’t want to hear that the well is full of Gatorade bottles or that more people have followed the poor example of the graffiti vandals of 1912.
These places are protected by the harsh environment and hard to reach
the "ancients" were better specimens than us... more intelligent, stronger, bigger.
It's Comet Venus.
I say a shaman dreamed a dream to dig that well. That's what my imagination tells me.
You’re an idiot.
The square is the symbol of a mouth or person!
You said it twice here.
April 12,1912 ? Same day titanic went down.
Insignificant. Irrelevant.
It’s only graffiti.
Wado
You shouldn't assume. If you don't know don't talk about stuff you have no clue about.
Jeremy, if mankind followed this type of advice we would still be in the dark ages..............alex