Thanks ApplegateRanch.
Posted on 10/13/2015 3:56:57 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
Judging by the settlements’ lofty location, along with their architectural features and artifacts, archaeologists believe they were built by early Numic-speaking peoples, the mountain-dwelling ancestors of the diverse but related tribes that today include the Comanche, Ute, Shoshone and Northern Paiute.
But these sites posed a new quandary: Judging by the artifacts, the newly found villages appear to date to around the heyday of High Rise Village — about 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. But this is centuries older than — and the sites are thousands of kilometers away from — the only other Numic mountain villages known to exist, in Nevada and California.
[Read about similar, potentially history-rewriting discoveries in the Southwest: “Long-Hidden Sites Discovered in the Southwest May Change Views of Ancient Migrations“] http://www.westerndigs.org/long-hidden-sites-discovered-in-the-southwest-may-change-views-of-ancient-migrations/
(Excerpt) Read more at westerndigs.org ...
GGG?
The Wind River Range is God’s Country.
obama on Columbus day (paraphrasing): All the indians lived in peace until the evil white man arrived.
Grisly Mass Grave in Utah Cave Is Evidence of ‘Prehistoric Warfare,’ Study Says
http://westerndigs.org/skeletons-in-utah-cave-are-victims-of-prehistoric-war-study-says/
Nearly a hundred skeletons buried in a cave in southeast Utah offer grisly evidence that ancient Americans waged war on each other as much as 2,000 years ago
Perhaps obama was wrong?....
Certainly one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Thanks ApplegateRanch.
Most likely a tribe became too large or decided to separate to keep the peace, some staying in the area and others traveling to yet unexplored territory.
Wasn’t this at about the same time frame as the Sea People stirring up trouble in the Med?
Why would they live at such a high elevation? Defense?
Summer camps to gather the pine nut harvest; not full time living. Winter villages were in the valleys, according to the article. That might have been covered in the Q&A in the comments section.
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