Posted on 05/16/2004 11:32:03 AM PDT by blam
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Good article. Sounds like the legends are fairly coherent. There is probably some truth in them.
I think this (#3) is Mesa Verde.
Bump. I enjoy reading articles about the four corners area. My father was an oil field worker and I remember him bringing home arrow heads and beads that he would find on red ant piles. Although it didn't awe me as much when I was a child, I now marvel at the cliff dwellings. We even spotted ruins on the cliffs of the Navajo Lake. We revisited the Mesa Verde ruins this past summer and the more mature I get the more impressed I am. Not too thrilled about the cannibalism theories, though that would explain how they might have fed large gatherings.
That was my first thought, too.
During one trip to Chaco, I was in thunderstorm, poured rain and the water sat on top on the of impermeable sandstone like a lake.
They liked round structures. Well, so do Christians and Muslims. Probably some superstition behind the lack of corners.
Nancy Yaw Davis
The Zuni Enigma
Did a group of thirteenth-century Japanese journey to the American Southwest, there to merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe?
For many years, anthropologists have understood the Zuni in the American Southwest to occupy a special place in Native American culture and ethnography. Their language, religion, and blood type are startlingly different from all other tribes. Most puzzling, the Zuni appear to have much in common with the people of Japan.
In a book with groundbreaking implications, Dr. Nancy Yaw Davis examines the evidence underscoring the Zuni enigma, and suggests the circumstances that may have led Japanese on a religious quest-searching for the legendary "middle world" of Buddhism-across the Pacific and to the American Southwest more than seven hundred years ago.
Nancy Yaw Davis holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Washington. Author of numerous articles, she has long researched the history and cultures of the native peoples of North America. Her company, Cultural Dynamics, is located in Anchorage, Alaska, where she lives.
well, the sun and the moon are round.......
"The town and the term is Russian for tumulus, the distinctive mound-grave of the nomadic culture to whom the name Kurgan was given."
Interesting. I did an internet search and found the reviews of this book are all over the place. Sounds very interesting.
I hundreds of photos of Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, Chaco, Aztex(sp) and many smaller house and cliff dwellings in Four Corners.
I just don't have time at the moment to post some.
I don't believe this pic is Chaco Canyon.
Great pics of Mesa Verde! The pic on your page, "Hoodoo"--isn't that Camel Rock?
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