Pretty damn good documentary, although the host is kinda weird and annoying. When it comes to historical mysterious, one must not look at just one factor. There are many. The city of Chaco was clearly a religious powerhouse. There are some theories that it was run by the Aztecs...which makes sense. For one, they have archaeological evidence of artifacts that came from Mexico in Chaco. Chaco appeared to have a hierarchy...so much like the ancient cities of the Aztecs and Mayans. They put some serious effort into building that city...and ever evidently this was a religiously motivated construction. The whole Chaco concept just seems to scream Aztec dictatorship (in fact the Hopi dont like to visit Chaco, its apparently a bad place to them). But then something happened. A drought hit, around the same time Chaco crashed...which probably caused chaos in the city. Leaders probably got displaced, and the thousand of people who lived in the city had to spread out across the Four Corners. This caused them to move into the canyon cliff walls, where they built dwellings that look awfully defensive. I think the Anasazi were also their own enemy in some cases...after all it is theorized that they probably didnt all speak the same language and had other such differences...they just simply shared the same ideas, which is prevalent in their ruins and rock art. Competition must of been pretty intense...and there is evidence of brutal violence in several Anasazi sites (not Mesa Verde though haha). So then, there comes the question of how come they seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet starting around 800 years ago? Ah, the answer is not well known. There are descendants today of the Anasazi...the Hopi, Zuni, and Pueblo. So what happened in that time frame from 800 years ago, to 500 years ago when the Navajo moved in? Look to Mexico...in the Northwestern Sierra Madre. There is little public information about these sites in Mexico, but they are clearly Anasazi...and they fit right in that time frame. They didnt disappear. They migrated, as a Hopi elder would say...it was just time to go... https://youtube/watch?v=p80wjtVQhYk
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 05:34:52 +0000
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