just stumbled across this video. It seems well done. One of the most amazing bits is how this was done by indigenous Americans in antiquity, both the climbing and the building.
This is a follow up to the ^previous^ video. He revisits the site.
The rabbit hole has me. This one is cool too.
Here's a video that the guy made on a multiday hike in the Grand Canyon.
The most impressive set of buildings yet.
Just 2-3 mins into this video is the most well preserved dwelling that I've seen yet where not only are the walls still smooth and coated inside and out with mud, but the outside of the dwelling is even painted including 2 storage rooms complete with their "doors".
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And only lately has he been discussing theories on the almost inaccessible and extremely remote locations of the dwellings. These ancient people lived in terror. Evidence points to the fact that they were being hunted down and eaten by cannibalistic tribes. And we think life is hard now
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Yeah, many of the dwellings are in extreme locations, and seem to be built to be easily defended. Clearly, there was some crazy sheiße going on for a time.
His discussion/thoughts is one of the things that sets his channel apart from one or two others that I've seen since I started watching his. He does (has done) a fair amount of research into what he's seeing (most of the time), and a lot of what he says seems intelligent and not too far fetched.
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Have you checked out the research at the large ancient community of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico? There's a guy who's been studying it for 30 years. He's uncovered Indisputable evidence of cannibalism that was happening for a long period of time. The Indian descendents of the Anasazi dispute the scientific evidence of course (cannibalism is taboo any where on the planet).
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This is a very interesting article
https://www.prestonchild.com/books/thunderhead/Cannibals-of-the-Canyon-by-Douglas-Preston;art46,62
The anthropologist who was the primary proponent of cannibalism wrote a book. I'm curious about the book, but unfortunately, I have been unable to get a sense of how it's written. Some of those sorts of texts are written an a way that's very interesting, and some are written so that they are drier than the Atacama desert. I'm not going to spend $35 on a book and then find out that it's a desiccant and anesthesia. I'll just keep reading articles that I find online.
Here’s a video on the chaco canyon anasazi cannibalism (covers much of what’s in the linked article above).