Mesa Verde's Cliffside Dwellings Show a Glimpse of History

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Perched on the cliffsides of the Mesa Verde Plateau, exists the remnants of prehistoric Pueblo settlements.
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@NatGeo 6 жыл бұрын

Mesa Verde National Park was the first archaeological site in the world to be protected by law. What do you think about the historic settlements you can find here?

@VexylObby 6 жыл бұрын

Drove to here on my spring break. I was surprised of how many people there were not there! I was practically alone, and that silence made the sight much more immersive and inspiring.

@crystinamarie1 Жыл бұрын

Shhhh lol

@giannemarie972 6 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how humans came from a heart of a nova to this. Magnificent.

@snakebyte130 6 жыл бұрын

I've been here a few times. Such a wonderful area and the history is amazing

@Reader_curiosity 3 жыл бұрын

We know very well the history in Central and South America. But in North America there is a blackout of ancient history. Even the American cinema, the largest and best cinema in the world, ignores the screening of independent films about North American histories before the European migrations. I learned by researching the ancient cultures of the Puebloan people and the Mississippi region.

@DS-lk3tx 8 ай бұрын

That's what happens when cultures fail to exit the stone age. There's not much to care about.

@trynafindpeaceofmind1019 3 жыл бұрын

My aunt and uncle took me her years ago here the kartchner caverns and the Grand Canyon we even went crawling in an underground cave all things I wish I would have appreciated so much more then.. now I am so interested in every detail that f these places knowing I was once there.. this place as well as the Grand Canyon literally have an energy about them that feels so alive I can’t wait to take my kids one day!

@ChefRafi 6 жыл бұрын

We were here! Amazing place!!

@AzlianaLyana 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting choice of location. Must have taken a lot of effort to build there for the perfect settlement shaded from the scorching hot sun. This is some what similar to the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali, another cliffside architecture. Thanks for sharing National Geographic.

@philtripe 6 жыл бұрын

the climate has changed. its now drier and hotter than it was back then

@raydn23 6 жыл бұрын

Hey that’s my area. SW Colorado! Beautiful site it is

@44Jupiter44 6 жыл бұрын

raydn23 Same! Watching from Colorado Springs, Colorado! 😊

@ColoradoGunfighter 6 жыл бұрын

Watching from Pagosa

@potochosworld9237 4 жыл бұрын

Mhhh... right you are

@user-oh3zf5oz6y 2 жыл бұрын

Str8 719

@raydn23 2 жыл бұрын

@@ColoradoGunfighter from Ignacio! Neighbors

@MelSilva-ku9qk 2 ай бұрын

Awesome 👍🏼😎

@gtgodbear6320 4 жыл бұрын

Green Table Cliffs. Trying to learn Spanish did come in handy.

@pocoloco5160 4 жыл бұрын

24 tribes who claim ancestral ties to Mesa Verde or the Ancestral Puebloans would be the 19 Pueblos, Zuni, Hopi, some of Navajo clans, Jicarilla Apache and the Utes. Correct me if I'm wrong.

@nicolemcclain9694 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Yes

@16oreos26 6 жыл бұрын

Magnificent

@brittley8 6 жыл бұрын

I am loving the speak over format!!!

@andrewpts3359 6 жыл бұрын

its pretty cool here

@user-chardonneret 6 жыл бұрын

Nice

@tobyque9399 6 жыл бұрын

I have seen that place in my dream once

@NatGeo 6 жыл бұрын

We hope you get the opportunity to visit Mesa Verde in person someday. The wildflowers in the area bloom from April through September!

@moonbeast32 2 жыл бұрын

It seems these guys were long gone before the Columbian era. Yet, they seemed to be the most technologically advanced of the North American tribes. How can that be?

@CC-rw1yn 11 ай бұрын

Are you thinking that they are the most technologically advanced because they built stone houses? Lots of tribes built houses, usually made of wood and haven’t lasted. The Pueblo used what resources they had and that resource ended up staying for a long time.

@kellykurt8339 6 жыл бұрын

Could there be a chance that this was not a castle for 1 family, but a large communal edifice?

@thenobleist9262 6 жыл бұрын

You are exactly right! Mesa Verde is a system of dwellings along at least two of the mesas in the area. The site was once a bustling city with farms on top. Then through disease and eventually colonization, they left the site or died.

@dachshund_gaming Жыл бұрын

If it really was meant to house one family, how are the descendants of said family faring nowadays, if any?

@randomdudeyoumightlike9912 6 жыл бұрын

Second, this is cool!

@leonelflores393 Жыл бұрын

There is a place call 40 casas , the same arquitecture and cliff zone. Madera Chihuahua in México.

@AngelSilverFourtySeven 6 жыл бұрын

Very nice 👍🏽

@peleyang3024 4 жыл бұрын

I like this! I learnt a lot!!! :D

@HappySabachi 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@echolot 2 жыл бұрын

the background music slaps

@treybasquiat 6 ай бұрын

My beloved ancestors from Africa created those dwellings. They’re identical to those found in the Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali. Blessings! 🙏🏾 ONE LOVE ✊🏾

@Combat-Mindset 5 ай бұрын

It wasnt your kind! Stop claiming everything!

@AnimalsAndReports 6 жыл бұрын

What must have happened to abandon such a seemingly ideal dwelling Lack of rainfall, food or disease took over...

@Vbluevital 6 жыл бұрын

These are nice but far to short.

@Vbluevital 6 жыл бұрын

+Corey Messick lol

@iamnoone348 6 жыл бұрын

Make a video about the Boxer Codex.

@tylerelliott7299 5 жыл бұрын

Shout out to Mr. Pickle.

@johnrohlfs9607 3 жыл бұрын

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🌎🗺🇺🇸🍔🇺🇸🇮🇳🌏🍉🇺🇸🍹🇺🇸🇺🇸🍔🇺🇸🍔😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸thanks from 8th CHEROKEE AMERICAN John Robert Bruffett Junior of United States of America!

@quincymccoy9534 4 жыл бұрын

This was before our time when water filled this area and it was a inland sea.

@DS-lk3tx 8 ай бұрын

No, this place is barley 700 years old. There's older bakeries in France. 😂😂

@KalanYore 6 жыл бұрын

National Geographic had missed the past new discovery of dwellings that were on the topside surfaces nearby whereas a brush and prairie grass fire exposed?

@ellesunshine5597 6 жыл бұрын

💜

@DS-lk3tx 8 ай бұрын

"Stone age tech being used while the roman empire existed" probably sounded rude. 😂

@smokeshop1060 3 жыл бұрын

That's Our Land ..

@forceev6695 6 жыл бұрын

We are not here to Race About who id First or Last we are Here to Learn and Study about this.

@bijukc4915 6 жыл бұрын

😊😊

@ibfw1685 6 жыл бұрын

Six

@matheuzinreidelas2846 3 жыл бұрын

alguem veio aqui pelo CMSP? nn queria assistir no cll foi no PC?

@serikura0123 3 жыл бұрын

Me :'>

@matheuzinreidelas2846 3 жыл бұрын

@@serikura0123 kkkkk

@warmleatherette5652 6 жыл бұрын

Why is this considered prehistoric? Is the splitting of Rome or the rise of Islam and subsequent European Crusades considered prehistoric? Prehistoric is used to delegitamize these people's contemporary impact.

@treenelson4063 6 жыл бұрын

I think they (western civilization) consider any thing that is not a part of their history, prehistoric, meaning before they started a history of (what ever). They even consider people they were not aware of prehistoric even though they are living today. But I agree with what you mean completely. It has a way of pushing stuff into the ancient past that is very recent and even modern. There are people who think the Indian wars were a long time ago, and the Indigenous population is gone, when actually we are a significant percentage of the population and the Indigenous war of culture and land goes on even now. There seems a subtle and subliminal attack to delegitimize the Native culture and keep it invisible as though it does not exist and has died out long ago.

@warmleatherette5652 6 жыл бұрын

And of course writing was invented by the 12th century.

@DS-lk3tx 8 ай бұрын

Because calling it "stone age" would have probably been rude. Even though it's a stone age building constructed around the time advanced civilizations were sailing the oceans and creating empires.

@DS-lk3tx 8 ай бұрын

@treenelson4063 No, we just find stacking of stones to be something primitives did. This place was constructed after the Vatican afterall. 😆 🤣

@nonhominid 2 жыл бұрын

We know that knights fought dragons. China had theirs. What about this far fetched idea. Could it be possible that some dinosaurs actually survived and maybe going to the cliffs was a way to protect their loved ones. This area would be perfect for big dinos. Once they were not assaulted by them anymore, they returned back down to the lower ground. How about checking the ground level areas for dino bones.

@mrlantern6685 Жыл бұрын

dinosaurs went long extinct before this structure was built. There's a thing called logic, and knights never fought dragons.

@StemeCronic 6 жыл бұрын

5th view 1st comment 1st like

@arifahmad9348 6 жыл бұрын

Yes yes, first harrass the natives to an extent that they themselves feel like outsiders and then tell about their amazing culture. A part of the American dream. Wow.

@6324210 6 жыл бұрын

C'mon Nat Geo, stop with the "indians" we know they are not from India...the history of the misnomer is rooted in classism/racism.

@potochosworld9237 4 жыл бұрын

Abstract Identity 🤦 I get it’s not politically correct, but, come on dude it’s not a big deal.

@6324210 4 жыл бұрын

Potocho’s World your opinion on the matter; doesn’t matter

@shiness6229 3 жыл бұрын

I don't care what I'm called I'm a strong descendent of these people

@takahonaw3470 Жыл бұрын

Narrative is wrong

@theskyisblue8979 4 жыл бұрын

It's ironic that these 700 year old buildings would cause international outrage if destroyed but a rock shelter in Australia that had been inhabited continuously for 47,000 years gets blown up and no one bats an eyelid.

@boogiemeister9581 3 жыл бұрын

Considering these are the ONLY ancient structures left in North America, I don't really think its true that government in US care.

@anoncrazynonevilgooddecent7631 3 жыл бұрын

Rock shelter? Lol 47,000 years? Bro that isn’t a building it’s a rock it doesn’t count, bro there are young trees in USA older than that and the natives of Australia never build a single building

@theskyisblue8979 3 жыл бұрын

@@anoncrazynonevilgooddecent7631 There are not 47,000 year old trees. The oldest tree in the world is just 5,000 years - and people have lived in the rock shelter for nearly ten times that. For reference, people have only been living in the Americas for thirty three thousand years at the absolute maximum. In the cave, a 4000 year old belt of braided hair was found and DNA testing revealed it was from a direct ancestor of people still living in the area today. I understand, however that these numbers may be hard to understand for someone who didn't pass year 4 maths.

@DS-lk3tx 8 ай бұрын

Lol... "rock shelter." 😂😂

@DS-lk3tx 8 ай бұрын

@@boogiemeister9581 They're not ancient. There's a bar in England that is older than this pile of rocks.