Alex, one of your videos is as educational as many days in the field, but it also serves as a big incentive to get out in the field. Please continue this quality series.

What a great civilization !!! At the year 1700's , 1800's , still living in that advance culture !!! Amazing !!!

Thank you for sharing these wonderful open air classes!

The petrogliph is clearly a tortoise, thankyou for sharing

Very informative. I’ll be keeping my eyes open when I go exploring. I’m sure I’ve passed over many of these sites. Fascinating subject and you do a great job of explaining. Thanks.

Thank you for these videos. We are rapidly losing the knowledge of our ancestors here.

Thanks for keeping it real and not marketing some ancient aliens crap. This is some really nice stuff you've discovered.

Magnificent site Alex. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful history site.

Very informative. I no longer can do the walking, but some of the desert areas I've journeyed thru in CA and northern NV I've missed tons. Great narration Alex.

Thank you for doing some research. Much appreciated from this immigrant from the UK,

I LOVE all your programs and video's Alex, but for some reason, this one IS A FAVORITE ! Thank you

Time Stamp 8:28 - that sure looks like a desert tortoise . We lived at Edwards AFB in the 60's and we had one as a pet named Freida.

This is my favorite out of all ur videos! I love the small trail that is still visible to us today.

You were so captivated you didn’t even notice when that rattler bit you.

Love your work. Hope you make some more videos like this. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for another great video. Growing up in Walnut Creek before the creek turned into a canal makes me wonder how many village sites got bulldozed over in the valley right here? There used to be a couple in my neighborhood. In my backyard was the notary over five stories tall.It was hollowed out and you could walk inside of it

Fascinating stuff leading to an appreciation of ancient peoples, doing a lot with a little to help them.

Truly amazing!

I absolutely LOVE these videos!!!!

Always enjoy your journeys, keep following those trails!

Your videos are a constant reminder of just how many people lived in California in prehistoric times. Even in areas where it seems it would be hard to live at all. Thanks for sharing another amazing site.

You are the best! I'm glad to see you have a hiking buddy.

I always wondered if the glyphs were artistic expression or a way to document the times.

Thank you for making and sharing this videos of the Mojave desert area. God bless

I always enjoy watching your videos Alex and learning new ways to assess the environment for clues that can be stitched together to form a story of the past. Bravo!~

Alex excellent video, I have been in this area and found the petroglyphs and slicks. Interesting location and you gave a clear and detailed account of the village and how it all connects.Extremely well done and fascinating material. Tks

This vid teaches more than school and is more entertaining than school

I found this area a few years ago and found one of the village sites and petroglyphs. Awesome videos of this area.

What an amazing place to explore.

Wow .. good one Alex! You definitely have an eye for detail.

Loving your work. I'm heading to California for a week, excited to explore. One of my favorite things to do is find Ancient Ruins here in Arizona.

Great episode!

What a valuable resource your channel is; thank you. Your choice of the dark blue stones and beads you wear is the color of the Pleiadians. I subbed and look forward to reviewing your work.

Great video. And awesome channel. Thanks for sharing.

Found similar groupings in Tucson both Archaic and Gila/Hohokam era. Awesome video. If you are ever in Tucson i'll take you on a hike.

Wonderful.

This is the most fantastic channel 👍

I really enjoy your very informative videos. In Ireland we call such grinding stones 'Quern stones'. I love the petroglyphs too.

I feel like I'm on a treasure hunt with you, it's thrilling! Thank you for your wonderful videos :-)

Great information. Thank you. Jimmy

Thanks.4 sharing

In the Pilbara At Burrup peninsula near Dampier there are vast amounts of pictoglyphs. Tens of thousands of years old. I walked regularly amongst them in desert country on my day off while working there in the 1980s. Some were totem trails . Some were increase centres. Where the forces of nature were propitiated to give abundance of rain, game and plant food. I found grinding stones, shell water carriers, middens and small ceremonial circles. The earth magic there is very raw and intense. Treat with the greatest of respect. Not like some mining companies who destroy these sites. Its where humans as individual beings connect to the unitive conciousness.

In Australia the figures with internal structures are called xray figures. Sometimes they are maps of tribal territory.

Awesome video. Very much enjoyed your narrative.

So so great you found them ,thanks for sharing! Wish there was a way to know what they mean! Maybe someday it will be known! Great job to you! 👍🏽

Good documentation, Alex!

Fantastic

I had a wikiup made of redwood branches near Big Basin. We camped on it for years and years. My nephew found a grinding stone just a week ago in Soquel creek

Not a foundation ! They just moved the rocks to the outside ( To bed down) ! The wick yup needed no foundation ! The rocks could maybe give a heat and cool for tempreture regulation !

On the bright side, the location is perfect for a thorough and dedicated researcher to get their work noticed by the world.

You are very interesting thankyou

That rock with Petroglyphs is a point where someone once sat and mapped out who was where and what ties they had. That person could sit and tell others where tribe members and families resided and who had what space. They could also see far and have early notice of visitors or intruders. A lookout and command point.

Wow Alex absolutely fascinating that trail still exists as if the ancients had been using it last week truly is remarkable how it all still exists a love it. Take care Liam 😉, a always look forward to your next adventure..... Thanks again mate.

I love wilderness areas

I think the symbols are usually path markers, like direction signs, showing routs to take. I have seen them on cliffs showing the way up the cliff to reach a cave.

Well... that was great...those two pieces of Mano early on in the vid had to fit together... ... Winter finally got here ..cold and snowy for the first time all year... I did find a large stone with cupuole in it and the other kind I forgot what ya call it when they were trying to peck another chunk off the big stone??? Several large mortars in the area also..

I've spent a lot of time out there in still haven't even scratched the surface I've never noticed those rings before I'll keep my eyes out. I wonder how old these date back.

If this site wasn't recorded before I hope you cataloged it with the State Archaeological Survey. It looks to be in remarkably good shape, like it might have been used in fairly recent times. When did the water source disappear?

California, Califronia, Calosfrios? Just joking...This is an awesome and interesting video. So glad I discovered a fascinating area of history to explore.

I would like to know where to get the music playing at the end--Is that a CD one can buy?

Great finds thanks for sharing! Wander what tribe lived there!are the circles on the stones a map showing wikiups!

@~25:15, the petroglyph is two humanoid figures. Rotate your perspective 90 degrees clockwise.. I'd wager they were intended to be portrayed as lying down. Also, I believe your "mountain lion" is a scorpion. The tail is obvious, and the claws (on the other end) were immediately so to me as well. I didn't go back to review, but IIRC, that made the 6 legs add up as well. Great vids - thanks for sharing!

About 20 years ago, I was in the Antelope Valley after a storm. The water had washed away a large rock which was protruding about 1 foot out of the ground. There were holes that appeared to be hollowed out on the large rock about 5 inches deep and about 4 inches in diameter. They were pointed concaves and they were spaced about 2 feet apart from one another. The area looked like an old riverbed. I wondered if the holes were used for grinding. I never recorded the coordinate and have been unable to find the place. Maybe a new rain reburied it. Additional: I just heard use the word "Mortar" . That's exactly what they were.

Hello Alex . Another splendid video from you is greatly appreciated. I really do hope you see this comment. Could we possibly speculate that those petroglyphs that looked pointless are maps of the encampment or other possible settlements, trade areas, maybe circles represent some type of a kiva or religious dwelling?

So Alex, I guess you show us the grinding motion with the mano in your left hand because you have the camera in your right hand? It seems many or most Native Americans were/are right handed because the smooth side of the mano has to be down and the knock-out-notch would fit a right hand thumb.

17:23 hey you missed the man inbetween the mountan lion and sheep. Maybe a shield or round thing in hand also!

I worked with Big South Fort as Teenanger in Youth Conservation. Was best job I ever had. Our mark was the turtle building trails . Daniel Boone Forrest too had turtle mark . Goes back to my Ancient Covenant people.

Interesting! What is the approx age of those tools? How long ago did people live there

I'm amazed you didn't find any lithic's in that area ! Speaking of which,,if present there what material are the points generally made of? I'd presume obsidian sense it's a volcanic region and the tools are likely a ryolite or basalt possibly? Here in VT I've done salvage archaeology on disturbed sites for well >50 years and professionally for a few. I have an extensive collection and I've donated literally thousands of artifacts to the Lake Champlain Maritine Museum while retaiing the mesuem quality ones for myself till my passing. After that there going to the museum as well. All were site marked, recorded, and most sites GPS'd and are being classified and studied right now by the muesum staff. My site maps and records have already turned up 3 unrecorded sites so far ,,very cool IMO ! My 3 oldest lithics are , a fire tempered Medowcroft and 2 bifricates, very old and all very rare in this area , how they survived the ice age I just don't have a clue ?? I also have a interesting Jacks Reef point that's very unusual for this area, as well as several Paleo era items, but then the Champlain Valley/inland sea has been a major travel and trade route for literally thousands of years. But finding pre ice age lithics out in the middle of a corn piece just blows my mind to this day. I find pre history facinating ,even after 50+ years of study and collecting.

Can you tell me the name of the song @5:13? I would like to know more about that song.

very awesome would this be the Kitanemuk, or Yokuts,or piru indigenous people of the area

The Netherlands here. So fascinating to see the petroglyphs and to imagine how life was like over there, back in the days. I wonder, are there still first nation people left who can tell us what the symbols mean?

Is the Orestimba location the closest you know of to Stockton Ca‽ I used to live right there in Patterson but live in Stockton now, would love to go see some of this for myself, might do Mt Diablo

anyway, great video!!

good eye

Hey there Alex and Dave, it was so cool to meet you that day what a surprise as you drove passed me I said well I'm not going to be alone today, then you pulled in to where I have my camp and I laughed knowing who you are I said to my self I got to go say hi. we took picks and I went on down the road to let you do your thing as I was doing the same. take good care and say hello to Dave for me! Pa

Are the circles and lines indicating the amount of people or families?

manos were very often used on both sides.

Long whiskers on the Mountain Lion :-)

At 6:09 is that another larger area for a house?

That first petroglygh looks like a subdivision plat map.

Please freeze at the 27 : 40 time stamp and examine. Could that glyph be depicting a large ship with horned animal at the ship's head and the large bubbles signifying the sinking of that ship? We need to look at all the possibilities. : )

The rock with the pics on both sides you say one side is older than the other could be from one side gets more weather.The trail looks like a game trail to narrow for a human trail. The cutting stone would be chipped up if used against the slick stone and the slick stone would be chipped too Still interesting.

The web of life? Web of universe? Interesting. Thanx.

I suggest you read "The Rocks Begin to speak" by Martineau. Then look up Dr. Carole Pattersons work on art (writing), and her work with the chiefs of the Ute tribe. Here latest sows a map, and its use.

Do you notice the petroglyphs are aimed in any particular direction on the pathways? To make them noticeable? Or do you have to look for them? I wonder how common it was for them to spot the glyphs back then

Is there a preferred direction that the entrance will point on a wikiup?

do you think the land was cover in tree and growth?

Real nice Alex I'm glad your out and exploring do you have a website or email......

You do return every stone to the place it occupied before you lifted it, do you not?

That male image would be classified as a "Peckerglyph"

squatter field. thank you

at 14:00 touching the glyph

I really wanted to send this as a private message; but I cannot figure out how to do that. "Community" on one's channel no longer seems to perform in the manner that I am familiar with. Some time ago, I stumbled upon an old map, considerably older than a century, that depicts within the present Anza-Borrega a site labeled "Old Santa Rosa." It was an Indian village, already abandoned, that has nothing to do with the present Santa Rosa in San Luis Obispo County. Are you familiar with the site and its history? Would you be interested in collaborating on an exploration to locate and, hopefully, document the site?

Very interesting! Things for consideration; tribes would trade with other tribes for food, textiles and a host of other things. This maybe why you found a mortar hole on the eastern Sierra side. To avoid interbreeding was also observed, so socialization with other peoples was very important. On the west side of the Sierra it was also a custom to break the pedestal in half when done using for the season. Maybe one explanation for the broken manos you found. Appreciate your respect and I pray that you're very selective with your location info. Sadly these sites have been desecrated in the past and present for greed and stupidity. Good luck and thanks for your documentation.

That first little one may have been a closet given it's small size. Also why would they prefer to use such tiny stones whit the abundance of larger more sturdy stones all around? Hmmm interesting.

21:20 perhaps a map of the 3 villages you found

It's always so fascinating while slightly frustrating to see theses types of petroglyphs...you can almost see certain morphing of images we can relate to and think we identify,only to change your opinion of that thing or meaning or object you thought you identified .it's almost a mixture of a spiritual inner emotion mixed with an alphabet that's not written by using letters and words.,.the spiritual mixture is what is hard to calculate into it .we look at it through scientific glasses,when we take that away it only makes everything blurry and even more difficult to see.we need the scientific glasses,but we need to look through them through non scientific eyes...

at 4:20 you put back a grinding stone in a different location than you found it. Lets clean that up

Circles and lines are like a map to villages?