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Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on August 05, 2013, 05:59 PM:
Spent the weekend camping and prowling around up in the Elk Ridge country of SE Utah. Spent one morning visiting the Lewis Lodge ruins. They are really cool group of ruins perched on a ledge in a tributary to Arch canyon with sheer cliff face above and below.
The ruins are spread out along that ledge across from my buddy Tim. There are ruins all along it, from the left edge of the picture all the way to the right.
- DAA
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on August 05, 2013, 06:03 PM:
Few more...
Really well preserved little kiva!
Cool stuff...
- DAA
Posted by JD (Member # 768) on August 05, 2013, 08:41 PM:
Pretty darn cool Dave!!
Posted by Rich (Member # 112) on August 06, 2013, 06:12 AM:
I wonder if I could get away with selling my Iowa home and moving in to one of those caves. Looks like a very good retirement community there.
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on August 06, 2013, 06:23 AM:
Really makes you wonder what an average day was like for them. Hunting and gathering was never close to home everything more challenging due to their choice of location. I assume the location was chosen out of need for security.( edit to add awesome photos as always Dave.)
[ August 06, 2013, 06:27 AM: Message edited by: Paul Melching ]
Posted by Kelly Jackson (Member # 977) on August 06, 2013, 07:27 AM:
Good thing they didn't figure out how to make beer...or maybe they did.
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on August 06, 2013, 08:15 AM:
Incredible pics!
Pretty amazing to fathom how people lived in those shelters. They're almost like giant mud dauber wasp nests...
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 06, 2013, 09:17 AM:
My own theory has to do with security....with one fatal flaw. They need to keep warm and lugging firewood up those cliffs was a considerable challenge. Then, depleting nearby sources, they traveled further and further until it was impractical and had to consider abandoning their security.
Or, some other reason.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on August 06, 2013, 04:46 PM:
unless the firewood was brought to them as driftwood in the river below.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 06, 2013, 05:42 PM:
This is southern Utah, Paul. At best, an intermittent stream.
Just jacking ya, you could be right. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on August 06, 2013, 07:19 PM:
This particular spot, I don't think firewood was ever an issue. Other places the Anasazi withered, it absolutely was.
No river below here, either. It's less than 200 yards from the head of the canyon. Dripping spring on the ledge at the head for drinking water, but the canyon floor (which is about 500' below, almost straight down), no running water except for the occasional flash flood.
- DAA
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 07, 2013, 07:10 AM:
Hey Dave. Could you figure out where was the potty?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleofaeces
I'm thinking of lugging mud and rocks up the cliff, mix with water, presto! a cozy room for grandma. Sounds like a lot of work.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: linkies
[ August 07, 2013, 07:25 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on August 07, 2013, 08:17 AM:
Yup, the trash/poop pile/midden is usually pretty easy to recognize at these sites.
- DAA
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