#Mesa Verde

[emilybeemartin]

Inktober Days 13-15

Day 13: "Rise"

Rangers sometimes talk about their “heart parks”—the intimately special ones that make us go dreamy-eyed and nostalgic. Grand Teton is my heart park. During undergrad, I was going through a rough patch, missing my backcountry work in New Mexico and feeling out of place at Clemson. I told my friend that I “just wanted to go somewhere.” He asked if I wanted to go for a walk. I told him no, I’d like to go to the Grand Tetons. I don’t know why I decided on that particular place in that moment—I’d never been there and had only ever seen photos of the famous mountain group. But my friend said sure, we could go to the Grand Tetons. He proceeded to lead me outside student housing, checked the cardinal directions in the sky, and struck off northwest. I followed him. We walked around campus for hours that night, talking about a hundred different things. It was the first time after returning from New Mexico that I’d felt really heard, really understood, really happy.

A few months later, that friend became my boyfriend, and a few years later, that boyfriend became my husband. There was no question about where we would honeymoon. We went to Grand Teton.

Day 14: "Castle"

I’ve been struggling with what to say about Mesa Verde, because this site was so incredible to visit that I almost can’t put it to words. I experienced it while conducting my master’s research between stops in Navajo National Monument and Chaco Canyon. Visiting these cultural sites, tied together by sociopolitical events and natural disasters over the span of centuries, drove home how vast the network of humanity was in the Ancestral Puebloan era. These places were huge hubs of activity and massive feats of architecture—not castles, but communities humming with life, love, loss, struggle, wealth, and beauty.

Mesa Verde was also the only place I saw a ranger bring an audience to tears with the emotion in his program. I audited over two hundred interpretive programs that summer, but I remember lowering my clipboard during this particular tour of Cliff Palace, in awe of how powerfully the ranger was able to connect visitors with his own familial ties to the Ancestral Puebloans who had lived there so long ago. The goal of interpretation is to facilitate a meaningful connection between the visitor and the resource, but never have I ever seen anyone do it so profoundly as that ranger in Mesa Verde, 2011.

Day 15: "Dagger"

White Sands preserves practically the entire span of human history, from fragments of ancient blades up to the space shuttle and missile launches. But it's the beginning of that timeline that draws me toward this gleaming gypsum dunefield.

I remember where I was when the news dropped—in the Apgar ranger office with a handful of other Glacier rangers. I was working on my hunting and gathering program, where I discussed old facts about projectile points and atlatls, but I stopped when another ranger swore in shock. An email had come through to our NPS accounts with new research out of White Sands. Human footprints preserved in the ancient sediment had been dated--- not to the 13-16 thousand years old we typically associated with the earliest humans in the Americas, but to 23 THOUSAND YEARS OLD. In one short email, our whole office's reckoning of human history almost doubled. Our minds were blown. We celebrated like a bunch of lads after a World Cup win. This world that we walk! Footsteps over footsteps over footsteps! What a privilege.

#inktober #31 days of national parks #grand teton #mesa verde #white sands

[cpleblow]

mesa verde cliff palace

©Cpleblow Photography (2022)

#travel #mesa verde #cliff dwellings #national monument #Colorado #history #indigenous

[todaysdocument]

Cliff Palace, the Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde, photographed on July 27, 1923. 

Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service

Series: Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Image description: We can see a couple dozen of the sandstone-and-mortar rooms that make up the Cliff Palace site. The rooms mostly have sharp corners, but a few are round. They are built under an overhanging cliff. 

#archivesgov #July 27 #1923 #1920s #Cliff Palace #Mesa Verde #mesa verde national park #Ancestral Pueblo #Native American history #American Indian history #Indigenous American history #or prehistory I suppose #archaeology #Colorado

[ancientorigins]

New petroglyphs discovered at Castle Rock Pueblo on Mesa Verde plateau, including some used for astronomical observations and calendars have challenged perceptions of the settlement.

#Mesa Verde #Pueblo #geoglyphs #petroglyphs #ancient #history #ancient origins

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) ~ Shiprock from Mesa Verde [Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado]; Sept. 1925. Gelatin silver print

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Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) ~ Phantom Ship of the Desert Shiprock from Mesa Verde; Sept. 1925. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art

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#Laura Gilpin #women artists #american landscapes #desert #landscape #paesaggio #phantom ship #panorama #paisaje #paisatge #Landschaft #paysage #mesa verde #1920s #shiprock #women photographers #amon carter museum #pictoralism

[jimmiekimmie]

mesa verde aesthetic

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#kim wexler #rhea seehorn #better call saul #saul goodman #mesa verde #jimmy mcgill #bcs #albuquerque #new mexico #my edit #edit #my screenshots #screenshot #movie scenes #aesthetic #interior #modern interior #woman #cute kim

[stillebesat]

Fire Temple, Mesa Verde

#stillephotos #Fire Temple #Mesa Verde #Colorado #Ruins #Native American Ruins

[goodglass01]

Mesa Verde

Lumix LX100 / D Robert Stanley

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#desert landscape #photographers on tumblr #color photography #compact camera #panaleica #american west #mesa verde #desert #landscape #colorado #pueblo

[womeninarchaeology]

Check out our most recent episode with the wonderful Rachel Morgan, the author of 'Sins of the Shovel'!

#Looting #history #evolution #archaeology #archeology #Mesa Verde #Chaco Canyon #Grande Gulch #archaeologists #vandalism #indigenous voices #women in archaeology

[terebelli]

Ancestral Pueblo dwellings. Mesa Verde. Colorado.

#mesa verde #colorado #pueblo

[pazzesco]

⚞- Mesa Verde -⚟

Cliff Palace dwelling

Long House

🔽Mug House🔽

Mug House

During the winter of 1889-90, six men (five Wetherill brothers and Charles C. Mason) explored ruins of a massive multiroom Ancient Puebloan complex at the far end of the mesa. They first uncovered the Mug House site.

The crew turned up buckskins, poetry, stone axes, and knives. But they also found three mugs tied together with a yucca cord, which presumably gave Mug House its name.

Mug House

© 2021, Dennis R. Holloway Architect

#mesa verde national park #mesa verde #mug house #cliff palace #Dennis R. Holloway #long house #colorado

[thomaswaynewolf]

The best episode I’ve recorded yet. Everyone should give this historical podcast a listen if you’re interested in the American Southwest and it’s archaeology.

#my podcast #Mesa verde #anasazi #ancestral puebloans #archaeology #history

[cpleblow]

mesa verde, CO

©cpleblow (2022)

#black and white #landsape #weather #mesa verde

[sad-guinness]

Might as well post something happy and good. My fiancé and I went on a semi-spontaneous cross country road trip to the Grand Canyon and Mesa Verde

#me #selfie #fiancé #grand canyon #Mesa verde

[ancientorigins]

Mesa Verde is one of America’s most beautiful national parks. Perched on its cliffsides hide amazing remnants of prehistoric Pueblo settlements.

#Mesa Verde #Native Americans #National Parks #archaeology #Colorado #Puebloan #Chapin Mesa #ancient #history #ancient origins

[prairie-tales]

Ancestral Pueblo mug, c. 1200 AD.

Discovered at Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado.

The Ancestral Pueblo Indians perfected a distinctive style of black-on-white pottery such as this mug.

Source of photo: website of the National Museum of the Native American (link here).

#Native American #pottery #crafts #Ancestral Pueblo #Mesa Verde #Colorado