Hey, Barry Your link doesn't work for me. Anyway, I read somewhere that the Anasazi culture disappeared because they had to move out of their location due to drought.
This was also the same theory for the demise of the Mayan civilization. JR --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > This is a very interesting documentary about the Mayan's > > technology for keeping time. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P7MaGCyuwk&feature=related > > I rarely look at these things, because I'm just not on > "The ancients knew more than we do" bus, and I didn't > watch this clip, either. > > However, it being posted reminded me of a fascinating > film that used to be hard to find (you could only get > it on DVD from the filmmakers or at the gift shop at > Chaco Canyon itself), but which, after a quick search, > I discover is now on YouTube. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFRQfPQCic0 > > Narrated by and partially funded by Robert Redford, > this is a great film about one of the most spectacular > historical sites on the planet, and certainly the most > spectacular in North America, Chaco Canyon. I've been > there many times. There are buildings there larger > than the Colusseum in Rome, built in an ares in which > few of the building materials could be found. The > Anasazi ruled an area that encompassed 95,000 square > miles in the American Southwest. They were the Romans > of the North American continent. And then one day > (literally, in a historical sense), they just went > away. Where, how, and why are still a mystery. > > In the film, they use computer modeling to show that > the Anasazi were so hip to the movement of the stars > and planets that the whole complex can be legitimately > be seen as an enormous computer, just as Stonehenge can. > That said, the Anasazi were kinda on the dark side; > modern-day Peublo Indians won't even go there, and > consider their ancestors the Anasazi almost black > magicians. I certainly felt some darker vibes in some > of the sites there at Chaco, but in others what I felt > while meditating there was shiny and high, and to me > supports the film's theory that this was a place not > for dwelling in full-time, but a place of pilgrimage > to which tens of thousands of Anasazi would travel > at times of power (Solstices, Equinoxes, eclipses, > etc.) to revere power. > > Enjoy. If you liked the clip about the Mayans, you'll > like this one about their more Northern counterparts. >
