I'm trying to track down a ruin in the cream pots area west of Blanding for my dad. He described it as a large stand alone rock at least a hundred feet at the top with dwellings going up it like a corkscrew. He says they drove for a while but had to walk cross country for a few miles and passed through some village ruins on the way. He says it was on Forest Service land. He saw it in the early 90s and wants to show it to me. Thanks!
Hi all! Getting inspired by a few threads around here lately to map out what my idea for a Puebloan civilization could look like.
For those unaware, "Ancestral Pueblo" is a broad term that refers to a variety of peoples that inhabited the American southwest prior to European contact. Largely known through archaeology, their sites range from New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, a "four corners", area mostly based around the flow of the Colorado river basin. Among the tribes that have descended from the Puebloan include the Hopi and the Zuni.
They are known for their cliff-side villages, distinctive black-on-white pottery, their tall, apartment-like mudbrick "adobe" houses, an extensive system of broad roads, numerous petroglyphs, as well as for being some of the first North Americans to practice irrigation and create sedentary agrarian communities.
The Pueblo would be led by none other Popé, a highly revered Tewa leader who united the many disparate Puebloan communities in a revolt against Spanish colonialism in the 1600s. Popé was a fiercely anti-Catholic rebel that sought to restore indigenous lifestyles among the Southwestern peoples.
The cliff-dwelling could be a unique district replacing the neighborhood, unlocked earlier, only able to be built on mountain tiles.
The kiva is another potential UD, replacing the holy site.
As for a UU, I could ask the community here for suggestions. One potential is for an Atlatl, or spear-thrower, for an archer replacement. While "atlatl" is a Nahuatl (indigenous Mexican) word referring to a type of javelin, its use was widespread across the Americas. Many of the earliest dated Clovis points, perhaps the first known atlatls in the Americas, have been found in the American Southwest.
Another potential UU could be the "medicine man" (although I would prefer a better indigenous name if anyone he
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I'm trying to track down a ruin in the cream pots area west of Blanding for my dad. He described it as a large stand alone rock at least a hundred feet at the top with dwellings going up it like a corkscrew. He says they drove for a while but had to walk cross country for a few miles and passed through some village ruins on the way. He says it was on Forest Service land. He saw it in the early 90s and wants to show it to me.
