Pueblo Bonito, one of the largest great houses in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon. It was built after one of several cultural transformations that WSU's Kyle Bocinsky and Tim Kohler document in their Science Advances paper. (Photo by Nate Crabtree)
Pueblo Bonito, one of the largest great houses in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon. It was built after one of several cultural transformations that WSU's Kyle Bocinsky and Tim Kohler document in their Science Advances paper. (Photo by Nate Crabtree)
The Pueblo guys had SUVs and spray deodorant?
It’s the Mongol hordes sweeping across Eurasia in those SUVs fault.
It’s always been thought drought cycles had a lot to do with the abandonment of sites like Chaco. If you’ve been to a few of those sites or a live site like the Hopi you realize how close to the edge Puebloan agriculture lived in the arid climate.
Do these tools really believe that climate is never supposed to change and that the only reason it changes is because of humans?
Speaking of pueblo ruins, let me throw in a plug for Hovenweep National Monument.
Nice place to visit. Self guided tour with some cool architecture, including a square tower. Its a little ways off the beaten path- 60 miles west of Cortez, Colorado, so bring a full tank of gas and some snacks. Theres a ranger station with facilties for you to use.
It was also the end of the paved road of the Four Corners manhunt back in the 90’s where a search for was carried out for 3 gunmen who stole a water truck for unknown reasons and shot a cop in Cortez before fleeing into the desert where they met their end.
If the natives get restless, tell them I sent you. :)
http://www.colorado.com/articles/hidden-colorado-gem-hovenweep-national-monument
I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
The practice resulting in the thousands of south west residential sites boils down to bert’s assertion:
The Kids moved away
The old folks died.
That same assertion applies today and is visible in many abandoned southern farms. (which by the way are similar to the six rooms and a kiva of the south west. the farms houses have 6 or 8 rooms as well) the kids moved away, grannie finally died. the kids never returned and the farm was engulfed with plant life.
On a larger but different scale, the process is underway in the cities. It is most noticeable in Deetroit and Baltimore but also in Cicero IL and Memphis.
the kids moved away and the old folks died.
The climate change is trivial compared to the assertion
My 1st husband and I prowled Chaco and other ruins-he was from NM, and both of us were fascinated with the past. There are ruins a bit like Chaco in northern Mexico-it is plain to see that the climate was getting drier from the irrigation trenches with flat rocks on top to slow evaporation, the structures with wells inside that appear to be just for that, the riverbeds that have been dry for centuries, evidence of raids with buildings set on fire and people massacred in fields and houses, their granaries emptied, etc.
Anyone idiotic enough to buy into the manmade climate change BS just needs to visit some of those pueblo sites-on both sides of the border-to see how the climate has always changed over a large area long before there were any coal plants or SUVs-it is just how this part of the universe works...
