I discovered Earth Dwellings on Google Earth

Howdy Y'all, thanks for watching this video and all the amazing feedback. Thought it was a good idea to clarify some thoughts I left out of the final edit. It is my goal to share my love for the outdoors and human / natural history to likeminded people, young people, people who do not have the ability to get outside anymore. Not to increase traffic to sensitive locations. I don't usually say this- but I respectfully ask you to keep this location limited to your discussions with friends and family. Theres a couple reasons I don't show the artwork here: 1.) I do not want to show the names modern people have carved into the face of the artwork because it's a crime against humanity 2.) the permit process states I legally cannot show petroglyphs / pictographs online. On a personal note- Since I started making outdoor exploration videos several months ago, I have been completely astounded by the huge volume of viewers and overwhelming positive feedback. Every day I wake up able to pursue this dream feels too good to be true. From the bottom of my heart- thank you to everyone here. More and more I have to consider the impact I may have. I hope you can understand that I'm just a regular person trying to do the right thing while sharing my love for nature and the ways humans lived on this planet long before our strange modern world. I love discussing differing ideas and opinions if you are willing to articulate reasonably. Much love to you all and hope you are having a good start to the leap year yewwww- POV

15:00 desert brine shrimp are amazing. Their eggs lie dormant for like up to 12 years or something like that and when it rains enough they hatch. Crazy adaptation to an environment that rarely receives lots of rain

I think you are going to experience a significant increase in subscribers. A Spanish YouTuber with several million subscribers has commented about your video of the canyon with geometric cubes and has named and linked your channel. Congratulations

I live about a 2 hour drive from this location. The only time I went inside I was amazed by the natural acoustics of the interior, a hawk flew low over head and my friend and I could both hear the wind in it's wings. We could also easily carry a conversation while standing on opposite ends, without raising our voices, very interesting! There really is so much to see and experience there, I barely took anything in compared to what is there. I do appreciate your documentation of the site, without oversharing and encouraging a horde of people to come out sans obligation of good stewardship.

Beautifull the wind and Birds singing...very refreshing...can feel the vibe...the energy of life

This young feller has got some mad skills at creating irresistible content. Can't wait to see his next video. It's a way to remind me just how many amazing sites there are to see and imagine the history.

The features in sandstone that you said you’ve never seen before are common, especially in arid and coastal areas—it’s called Tafoni, and is a type of weathering that mostly occurs in sandstone. There is still no scientific consensus on how tafoni exactly forms, but one common hypothesis involves salt weathering (hence why it is common in arid and coastal areas) and that would track given this basin’s past, hosting an alkaline pluvial lake during the Pleistocene, into which salts and clays were deposited. After the Pleistocene, these salty sediments would have basically sandblasted the rock when picked up by winds and thrown against them.

I knew instantly where you were. You should see it in wildflower season, with fields of gold and purple. The Franciscan sandstone weathers into fascinating shapes not just here, but in other places, also inhabited by ancient Native people. Be careful. I've seen Mojave green rattlesnakes around there. (You can also smell them in some areas.)

I got up this Sunday morning very early and made some coffee and plopped down on the sofa to watch TV and saw this on YT. It was hypnotic, beautiful and fascinating. When it ended I realized I hadn't even touched my coffee cup!

Our world is so intriguing! Your camera work is pretty amazing too!

Thank you for showing me this. I'm 60 years old and never knew about this place. Amazing! Your channel is the best exploration channel I have seen yet.

The San Joaquin valley had at one time one of the largest lakes in the US fed by the rivers from the north and eastern mountains. The Indigenous people groups flourished in California with vegetation and game of all kinds. The coastal tribes and inland tribes traveled and were known to be involved in trading

It was an excellent video and edit. I really enjoyed the sounds during the drone footage. At 20:00 you can clearly see the line between Tan color sandstone and the Grey color of the Concrete Lichen that is all over the exterior of this structure. There are also other colors of lichen on these rocks. The Grey concrete lichen will help resist the erosion of the sandstone over time. At 28:41 the uniformly shaped + dispersed mounds in this valley floor are called Mima Mounds. These are most commonly thought by geologists' to be caused by seismic earthquakes resulting in a Simatic pattern. Quite a bit of study has been done on these. I've seen them in Washington State. It was fun to see them here. Thank you for the excellent video!

Those surrounding hills are beautiful. Hiking through there would be so peaceful

Win, Win You should pair with one of the YouTube Geologist channels. Plan trips together and then we not only get a little human history but we also get a better understanding of how the area was geologically created as well. Plus each of you would share the videos on both channels and probably both get more subscribers. It’s a Win, Win for both you but more importantly both of your viewers.

Scrambling over and inside the petrified remains of those gigantic creatures must have been awesome. Half your luck mate. I couldn't decide whether it was one enormous creature or several. What a privilege. You gave us some amazing footage, so thank you.

This video kicks butt🤯! Better than anything the history channel is doing these days. Great work mister!

Wow, what a mesmerizing place. Indeed those rocks would have been an ideal place to live. They must have supported communities of people for eons. Thank you so much for sharing 💖🙏🕊

I am an old man in my 70's and think your travels are very nice for your memories. I have not walked around the block for 20 years. But your video's are like short vacations for me. Thank you.

In my view, "megalithic" is a term reserved for anthropogenic structures made by moving and modifying massive stone blocks. This appears to be natural geology, in situ, that has been utilised by people with maybe some modification. commonly called a rock shelter in English or refugio rupestra in Spanish.