🌍🔍Uncovering My Absolute Favorite Discovery on Google Earth! #ancienthistory

Using a drone is the most respectful way of observing these fragile dwellings - well done

This is so awesome. The Pablo people are my ancestors by the way. My grandma was related to them and her mother and father were direct descendants. My family has old blankets from our ancestors that have been passed down for hundreds of years and they gave them to a museum after my grandparents passed away. We had pottery too. I was taught how to make pottery and weave baskets by my great grandparents and cousins. It's a native tradition. We also have sports and dancing. I love singing traditional tribal music too. I always felt like it was in my blood. I miss the smell of burning wood and cooking fish on the open fire with corn on the cob. It reminds me of gathering with my family in the desert and camping out with multiple tribes. 😊❤

I just recently discovered your channel and I have to say that I appreciate the level of respect that you show when approaching and studying these sites. I am an archeologist and my main area of study is the peopling of the Americas. I am retired now but most of my work involved monitoring and documenting a few dozen sites, both prehistoric and historic, and documenting any evidence of looting and erosion that I discovered. There was and is a disturbing amount of looting of archeological sites here in the U.S. and in all countries and continents across this planet. I am very impressed with the view of this site provided by your drone. That was some masterful drone flying.

BTW, your drone shots are incredible and the music you chose is spot on. Thank you for bringing us along on your wonderful adventures!

This was truly an exceptional find. I was in awe watching this video. Your slow drone shots made me feel like I was watching a National Geographic special. I love your enthusiasm as well. It is truly contagious.

This sort of thing is the best use of YouTube. This guy is passionate about his interests and is willing to do the hard work that is necessary to the exploration of these sites. And we all get to go along! Thanks you. Do as much of this as you can while you are young.

Beautiful structures. Thank you for being respectful of their fragility. Your drone work is excellent.

Thank you and all people who works in the field of archaeology! Thank you for trying to help us understand our human past!

Wow, those were awesome. What hardworking people they were. Thanks for being so respectful of these places. P.S. you’re getting really good with your drone skills.

Thanks for taking me along on your hike, I really enjoyed it. Excellent drone work.

This was just incredible! How people could have lived there is amazing! Thank you for sharing this with us, and being so respectful.

This was so awesome. You did such a great job of photographing I felt like I was there

all I can say is Wow and thank you very much with posting your drones videos. I am one of the people who thanked you before for doing what you do because I am handicapped and 68 and could never even hike anywhere these days. I wish there was a way to get You Tube into an idea for presenting awards for people like you. You are a great young man and I bet you were even a great kid for your parents. I would recommend to You Tube that they give you an award for the best Southwest explorer that knows how to preserve delicate areas and presents in an educational manner. Thanks again for your hard work and every time I go onto You Tube, you are the first site I look for.

There is a technique called hyperspectral imaging. This exploits a wider range of frequencies than we can detect normally in standard camera imaging. Essentially it creates a light spectrum for each individual pixel in the image and is extraordinary powerful at identifying image information hidden in normal imaging. Using this on the pictographs I suspect would be extremely informative.

The timbers sticking out of the wall would have been there to either support a balcony, which were common, or it could be what's left of a floor from a part of the building that has now collapsed. Excellent work!

Amazing journey you had & awesome drone shots. The enhanced colored pictures were so beautiful.

In North African construction of similar structures, if saws or axes were not available or of high enough quality, inter-floor timbers were often left long and untrimmed to save labour. For hidden granaries, these protrusions could in theory be used to drape some vegetation to disguise the appearance from afar. In peace time they could be used to hang items to dry in the sun and wind (rushes or palm leaves, both of which could be used to separate layers of stored goods or weave containers, or fibres for rope - which was of vital importance for some cliff-access granaries) The "repair" strikes me as an attempt to disguise a window that looked too prominent looking at the front elevation, whereas the side door/window would be less visible (only from some angles on that side) These were not defensive structures, used for fighting more that they were hidden structures for safe storage and difficult to access, so camouflage and blending in with the rock face from a distance would probably have been important factors.

I'm another bedridden viewer who enjoys your videos. Although I grew up in Utah, I'm now living in S.E. Idaho and I live vicariously through programs like yours. Thanks, and keep on doing these stories 👍

This is a treasure of a find! Thank you for sharing. Never would’ve gotten to see this without your video. Be safe. Blessings on your journeys.

It kind of took my breath away when the first structure came into view. I felt like i was there! Thanks for taking us along. I've found ancient dwellings when i was on a multi day hike days from any road and i got lost. One of the best days of my life