Blackwater Draw (ca. 9500–3000 B.C.)

Eleven thousand years ago, a small spring-fed lake or marsh near what is now Portales, New Mexico was populated with extinct forms of elephant, wolf, bison and horse, and the people who hunted them. At Blackwater Draw, generations of the earliest occupants of the New World lived, creating a layer cake of human settlement debris including Clovis (radiocarbon dated between 11,600-11,000 years before the present), Folsom (10,800-10,000 years BP), Portales (9,800-8,000 years BP), and Archaic (7,000-5,000 years BP) period occupations.



Clovis archaeological sites are dated between 11,000-10,800 RCYBP (which converts to circa 12,500-12,900 calendar years before the present) and they are found pretty much throughout North America. The point and culture are named after the town in New Mexico near where it was first identified, although the name of type site is officially Blackwater Draw Locality 1.

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The Templars ~ Freedom Has It's Price

John Wesley Powell 1834-1902

It was 1869. Ten men in four boats were about to embark on a journey that would cover almost 1,000 miles through uncharted canyons and change the west forever. Three months later only five of the original company plus their one-armed Civil War hero leader would emerge from the depths of the Grand Canyon at the mouth of the Virgin River.

Thirty five-year-old Major John Wesley Powell was that expedition's leader. From early childhood Powell manifested deep interest in all natural phenomena. Original and self-reliant to a remarkable degree, he early undertook collecting and exploring trips quite unusual for a youth of his age, and studied botany, zoology, and geology wholly without the aid of a teacher.

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“The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.”






















“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.”

Grand Canyon !

The Evil Clergyman by H.P. Lovecraft

I was shown into the attic chamber by a grave, intelligent-looking man with quiet clothes and an iron-gray beard, who spoke to me in this fashion:

"Yes, he lived here- but I don’t advise your doing anything. Your curiosity makes you irresponsible. We never come here at night, and it’s only because of his will that we keep it this way. You know what he did. That abominable society took charge at last, and we don’t know where he is buried. There was no way the law or anything else could reach the society.

"I hope you won’t stay till after dark. And I beg of you to let that thing on the table- the thing that looks like a match-box- alone. We don’t know what it is, but we suspect it has something to do with what he did. We even avoid looking at it very steadily."

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"Fabulous Song" by The Necros

Ancient Knowledge of the Chaco Canyon Anasazi

“During the last decade, archaeologists have come to the realization that the complex society of the Chaco Canyon Anasazi designed their architecture according to their cosmology” (J. Malville).
The Chaco Canyon Anasazi had no visible means of support. How did they survive? These Anasazi developed a sophisticated, though previously unrecognized, knowledge of the earth, particularly in relation to extreme fluctuations in yearly rainfall and its effect upon agricultural yields. I propose, therefore, that much of the Chaco Canyon architecture was specifically designed and constructed in response to this knowledge. The Chacoans were able to identify a virtually unknown blue-green algae which was common in the soil throughout the region and produced soluble nitrates and as such, could be exploited to produce fertilizer on which the entire agricultural system was based. Astronomical architectural alignments were clearly important, but a dependable and ample food supply, through ingenious growing and storage methods, was the foundation of Chacoan civilization.



Mysterious Places - Chaco Canyon





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They Live - Obey, Consume, This is your God

They Live You Sleep; where will your consciousness take you when the sleep is washed from your eyes. Welcome to the real world.

Neon Christ-Its Mine

Chaco Royalty Ordered 'Catered' Food at Colorado's Chimney Rock Site 1,000 Years Ago

Findings from the Chimney Rock archaeological site near Pagosa Springs, Colo., suggest that resident elites were dining on elk and deer, unlike the workers who constructed the site, who were eating smaller game, according to CU-Boulder Professor Steve Lekson, who directed the excavation. The royalty at Chimney Rock -- an "outlier" of the brawny Chaco Canyon culture centered 90 miles away in northern New Mexico that ruled the Southwest with a heavy hand from about A.D. 850 to 1150 -- were likely tended to through a complex social, economic and political network, Lekson said.

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Ancient Tides

Navajo National Monument

Navajo National Monument preserves three of the most-intact cliff dwellings of the Anasazi (Hisatsinom). The monument is high on the Shonto Plateau, overlooking the Tsegi Canyon system in the Navajo Nation in Northern Arizona.





Abandonment
Although many archaeologists agree that there is a definitive and sharp exodus from this region in the Southwest, there has been considerable debate on the determining factors that forced people to migrate out of this area. Archaeologists have determined that there was a distinct decrease in the amount of annual precipitation between AD 1276 and 1299, a period of time that is now referred to as the "Great Drought". With the limited amount of rainfall in an already arid environment, there is no doubt that there was a considerable amount of increased stress put on the agricultural systems that these people depended on.



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