I Found Something Precariously Perched Atop Of A Cliff Using Google Earth

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When I was exploring on Google Earth, I noticed something interesting. Could it be an ancient village on top of a 1,500 foot cliff? It required climbing up a sketchy ridge, can we make it up there? Join me to find out! #adventure #hiking #ancienthistory #history #ancientsites #ancientdiscoveries #explore #arizona #desertexploration #mountains #climbing
00:00 Introduction
00:36 Climbing up
01:58 Top of the first summit
02:42 Going down through ledges
04:03 The destination!
07:00 Caves
07:38 Heading down
08:37 Bearded dragon
08:59 Thanks for watching!

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@jacobgates1986 Ай бұрын

Great find, and good job keeping its location secret, preservation of these ruins is key, for future generations.

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@thomascacioppo3785 Ай бұрын

Our country is so beautiful there is no need to travel over seas. Thank you .

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Yes, indeed! So many interesting places! Thank you for watching!

@jeanlawson9133 Ай бұрын

My sentiment exactly.....I came from the hills of Virginia and could tell people things. Same as where I live now Sand mountains in Alabama 😎.....I love looking around always something new... Sometimes it's in your own backyard...❤

@thomascacioppo3785 Ай бұрын

@@jeanlawson9133 Va Beach here. Love our mountains. Have you been to Cherokee City Alabama? Beautiful.

@15cuhonda6 Ай бұрын

Tell that to your military

@mojoxide Ай бұрын

Man, imagine living up there.

@smonetus Ай бұрын

Around the 8 minute mark, are those homes way down in the valley ?

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Yes, it is a town.

@FriendlyBear-re6ln Ай бұрын

Very interesting! Thank you for showing this. 😊

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Ali-iqq1z Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing the adventure with us. Nice music, too.

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@tolik5929 Ай бұрын

Things like that dont last like cliff dwellings , because they are fully exposed to the elements .

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Yes, definitely. Couple days ago we went to a place that has hilltop homes and cliff homes in the same area, built around the same time, and cliff ones still have roof rafters, etc, while hilltop ones are much more broken down. Thank you for watching!

@andrewtoddmedia Ай бұрын

Imagine lugging water, game, and cultivated crops all the way up there all the time. 😬

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Yes, they must have been strong.

@user-ni1ig7un1e Ай бұрын

Looks like Arizona landscaping.

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

It is.

@undineler Ай бұрын

First of all, a big thank you for what you do. And a big thank you to those who accompany you. Every video of yours makes my body shiver and I feel creepy and electric currents running through my body. I don't even know how to describe it: the fear of heights, even though I'm not climbing mountains, and the great surprise, even the pupils of my eyes dilate. And a million questions: how did they go about their daily lives in such inaccessible places, why did they choose to do it, or did the whole environment look so different at that time that these places were not inaccessible, just normally safe?

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! Many of these places are definitely difficult to access, in some places, modern hikers even have to use ropes and climbing gear! I don't think the landscape was very different back then, just maybe more water in the creeks. But these people lived in very steep places between 800 and 1350 AD. Archeologists don't even have an answer why, there are many theories.

@liamx6636 Ай бұрын

Why would the "whole environment look different"? Do you know how long landscapes take to change in any significant way?

@undineler Ай бұрын

@@liamx6636, perhaps I conveyed my thoughts too emphatically. What I intended to say was that there was significantly more water, the weather presented more challenges, and people simply had to settle in higher elevations. I often ponder this when I hear about people living in mountainous, remote areas. It always raises the question of whether it was due to climatic conditions or other human factors.

@oriraykai3610 Ай бұрын

Seems like you could have done all that by drone and saved yourselves the danger of falling off some of those dangerous looking precipes. My guess is that those dwellings were made in the same period as Chaco canyon, when Aztecs came north hunting for human meat. They were cannibals. Also, the climate could have been wetter a thousand years ago, facilitating the growing of crops at that location. Tulane Lake in California for example, didn't dry up until 100 years ago. Do you live in those suburbs in the distance?

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Yes, most likely built around the time of Chaco culture existence.

@ginkhoba Ай бұрын

great video, about the weirdness of the location, pure speculation, but what if the pueblo was founded first in a period where there was water way closer? like during an extreme flood event? just thinking...besides a very defensible position, water would be the biggest difficulty up there.

@ruinsandridges Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! Yes, good thoughts. Since this dwelling is most likely dated to around 1,000 AD, the landscape did not change much since then. The creek is pretty close, 0.8 miles straight line, but walking to it would be more like 1.5 miles of difficult steep and dangerous climbing with heavy water jugs.