Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico
The Pueblo people have lived in the American Southwest for many centuries. Archeologists think they are descended from nomadic hunting and gathering people who came into the region 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
The Pueblo culture originated in the Four Corners Area (where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado meet), but it was not uniform from group to group.
Cultural differences, over time and from place to place, are reflected in such surviving remnants as architecture and pottery.
Early archeologists, studying the old dwellings for clues to their former inhabitants, adopted the Navajo term "Anasazi" to refer to the ancestors of Pueblo people before the coming of the Spanish. The ancient people of the Bandelier area, like Puebloan ancestors elsewhere, were farmers, who grew maize (corn), beans, and squash.
They supplemented their diets with native plants and by hunting and trapping deer, rabbits, squirrels, other mammals, and birds. They made clothing from animal skins and traded for cotton, which they wove into garments. They ingeniously made winter blankets from fibers of the yucca plant interwoven with turkey feathers or strips of rabbit skin.
Tools, including a wide variety of axes, mauls, and knives, were fashioned from animal bones, wood, and such local stone as obsidian and basalt. The people obtained other items, such as shell, turquoise, and parrots, through trade networks that ranged as far as central Mexico and Baja California.
The Puebloan ancestors occupied the Bandelier area for nearly 500 years. With less than half the monument surveyed, more than 2,400 sites have been located, but not all sites were inhabited at the same time.
For generations the people lived in small, scattered settlements, each consisting of perhaps only one or two families. Then from about A.D. 1150 to 1325, sometimes called the Rio Grande Coalition Period, the population increased. People began coming together in larger groups and, by the end of the period, villages (pueblos) often included as many as 40 rooms.
The following two and a half centuries, called the Rio Grande Classic Period, were characterized by fewer and larger pueblos, some exceeding 600 rooms, and by the prevalence of very small structures that archeologists call field houses and believe show seasonal dispersal to agricultural fields. Ceremonial rooms called "kivas" were up to three times larger in classic times and may reflect a changing role in ritual or social life.
The Village of TyuonyiThe pueblo of Tyuonyi and its adjacent cave dwellings in Bandelier are examples from the Rio Grande Classic Period, which ended in the late 1500s when the Spanish colonized New Mexico, bringing immense change to the American Southwest.
The modern Pueblo people have oral traditions that link them to the past, but no written record existed before the coming of the Spanish. Archeologists trying to decipher the relationships of modern pueblo villages to various early sites are often puzzled. Differences in pottery suggest that the people who lived in the part of Bandelier called "Tsankawi" were different from the people who lived in the rest of the monument.
Today, the Puebloans immediately to the north and east of Bandelier speak Tewa while those to the south speak Keres. What was the relationship between the people of these language groups in ancestral times? The dwellings in Bandelier may hold the answer.
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Breathless and eye opening
So nice to see a place like this,beautiful and no trash or grafitti
This has always been my favorite place to visit. I have visited three times & still will be going again. :D
Thank you, a generous gift to future generations!
@jaysonlucero2582
3 жыл бұрын
Just awesome thank you
It's a wonderful and strange place, it is rich in historical heritage, thank you Friend for sharing
My wife and I walked that loop in 9/2014 and really enjoyed it. Then in May 2016, my wife and our grandson took the walking tour. I stayed in at the Hilton Inn in White Rock nursing a cold, so I would feel better a couple days later when we rode the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic. Going out there again this May with our grand-daughter but she wants to visit Mesa Verde, so we will skip Bandelier this year.
@ephydoubtfire9259
7 жыл бұрын
Nice.
Superb video. I have been and love it as well.
So beautiful is this video.....thank you....
Glad I got to see this on video ... whom ever climbed the ladder is a very brave soul. LOL Most thanks from this non climbing chicken. Love you and the video ! Big Hugs !
Thank you so much. I really enjoyed your video.
I backpacked there in 1991 - awesome place!
Thank you ! I hope to be going there next year !
Brilliant tour! I cant wait to be in the canyon of the beans!
Thank You 😊
Good work...thanks for sharing. Will go there for sure on my next trip to beautiful NM.
Thanks for this tour. Katrina (Clovis, NM)
Nice
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Go up to the San Miguel ruins out on the mesa if you really want to see something. The Pueblos are still using the Stone Lions for ceremonies. Get into Bandelier the back way, through Cochiti and the Santa Fe Natl. Forest (Jemez Mtns. Unit).
so I loved going here as well. My grandson was probably 4 when my mom, son, and I took him. Has anyone gotton pics that have anything paranormal in them?
Just a reminder any one who is even a little afraid of heights never climb the 140 foot ladders they are worse than you think
There are so many similarities between the cave dwellings and pictographs of this site and Petra, Jordan (referring to the petroglyph that looks like stairs.) Hmmm...How did that happen?
@Alan62651
6 жыл бұрын
Modern plasma physicists are identifying some of the pictographs of diverse cultures not as "religious symbols" at all, but very possibly depictions of the plasma-electrical phenomena in an atmosphere being bombarded by a massive CME. That would explain why cultures who may not have had any contact with each other drew the same geometric shapes. They were describing natural catastrophic phenomena, not making religious statements.
They've closed the road from NM4 to personal vehicles due to increased risk of wildfire, but there is a free shuttle from the White Rock Visitor Center.
@sharleenp
7 жыл бұрын
What is the situation for handicapped? We have an electric wheelchair , can we drive all the way in and use some of the trail?
@minimenme
5 жыл бұрын
There are a lot of very narrow, stone stairways, and there are the steep wooden ladders up into the caves. The path you walk however, is well maintained and could likely support a pretty rugged electric wheelchair.
What museum is in the first 7ish minutes?
@minimenme
5 жыл бұрын
It is a small museum on the right hand portion of the visitor center. To the left is the gift shop and the theatre showing the movie depicted here. Was just there yesterday but we missed the museum as well because we went directly to the left for the movie and then out to the trail. Wasn’t even aware we’d missed this until now. Will definitely check that out next time. This place was absolutely breathtaking & so sacred. I can hardly believe they allow visitors to climb the ladders up into actual caves. Was hoping to find a PBS type documentary about this area and the history it’s former inhabitants.
12:58 Reptilian?