Post at least two thoughful sentences here about Chaco and Mesa Verde. Try to include links to maps/images. This should not take you long, so also spend time working on your wiki contribution for the block day.
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I thought it was interesting that Chaco is kept hard to reach. Is there a specific reason for keeping it isolated? Obviously, the reading said that Mesa Verde was atop a mesa. However, I didn't completely understand what a mesa was. I looked it up and found that it is an isolated, relatively flat-topped natural elevation, usually more extensive than a butte and less extensive than a plateau. The reading also said that kivas were associated with the kachina belief system. What exactly is the kachina belief system?
I thought it was really interesting how the weather differs so much and that sometimes you need special materials to get through certain times of the day (such as the SUV example). Another thing that interested me was the Pueblo Bonito. Obviously the name gives away the beauty of it but after reading even that short description I was amazed. This is an aerial village of Pueblo Bonito and here is another image which gives you more of an idea about what it would look like standing there. The way the run the tours of Pueblo Bonito and Mesa Verde is really detailed. I looked online at one of the tour website for Mesa Verde and there was a schedule there online of exactly what they would look at if you went with their tour and there is just so much to see and so much to learn!
Even though the reading was about Mesa Verde and Chaco, I was interested in Mesa Verde especially, because my family went there about 2 years ago. I was actually familiar with the term "kiva". I found a picture that showed a full view of Mesa Verde, since the reading only had pictures of the individual kivas. To get an idea of how big it is, compare the size of a person to one of the ladders in the kivas. The ladders are taller.
I think it is really interesting that the names of the people who created the Chaco and Mesa Verde are so vaguely named. I feel like it relates back to that video we watched about knowing the people and their culture and calling them by their real name. I was also wondering how long it took the people to create the Chaco and Mesa Verde, like what the time span of this was.
I was reading the assignment, and it menitons the word kibosh, and i was wondering what that was. It turns out that it is a fairly common word that I had just not heard before. It means a restraining elements, which makes sense for the context. Also, at the beginning of the reading in the 4th paragraph, what is it comparing? It is comparing Chaco to something else? What else, is it comparing it to? I just wanted a little clarification.
I found it interesting that Richard Wetherill, the architect who excavated the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, was murdered at Chaco. I wanted to know why. I looked him up using this Wikipedia article and discovered that he was the first one to use the term "Anasazi" to refer to the people who built Chaco and Mesa Verde and that he originally owned Chaco before President Theodore Roosevelt took it away from him and made it a national park. However, the article did not mention his death so I looked at this article The Murder of Richard Wetherill. The article, from a site maintained by Wetherill's descendents, states that Wetherill was found shot in the chest by his friend Bill Finn when he failed to come home from a cattle herding. Wetherill's murderer was never proven, but a Navajo man named Chis-chilling-begay, who had long accused Wetherill of being "violent and cruel to his people" was accused and spent several years in prison.
I was wondering why Richard Wetherill (the guy who explored Mesa Verde) was killed and how he was killed. According to this site, "Ahead and nearly between Richard and Finn a rifle was raised and sighted. Richard heard the echoing blast of the first shot but not the whistling lead that missed Finn. Still unseen, the rifle barrel swung in an arc of nearly sixty degrees. The second shot tore through Richard's raised right hand, the hand holding the reins, and smashed into his chest. He fell from his horse, not knowing who had killed him. Or why."
I'm still not clear but I guess that he wasn't either. I wonder if this site is biased in any way though. The writer seems kind of passionate about their story. It also claims to be a first-hand account. I'm wonder how they did that today...
I was interested in learning more about the cliff palace. I learned that there are many rooms whose function people don't understand. Since there were so many rooms, it could be that the Cliff Palace was the home to 100-120 people or even more. Inside the palace, there were 23 kivas and it is believed the this kiva was used to integrate two communities which could have lived at the palace. I found this videowhich shows a little of the Cliff Palace. I also found this painting which looks like people building the Cliff Palace.
In the reading, it says how difficult it is to get to both Chaco and Mesa Verde. I wanted to find some pictures to see what these paths up to the sites would look like, and also the sites themselves. I found this picture of some random people going up there. In the picture, you can see that the path doesn't exactly look easy. Then this nice picture of Mesa Verde show the cliffs overhead and what it looks like at Mesa Verde. I also thought that this shot in the path was good.
I thought that the Aztec ruins national monument was interesting and although you had some pictures in the reading i went to find more because i wanted to see some more of the monument. here are some that i found. site with a few pictures picture 1 picture 2 aerial image of the monument
I was curious about Chapin Mesa. As best I can figure out, the Mesa was named after Frederick H Chapin, a travel writer and photographer. I made some of the first widely available photographs of Mesa Verde.
The reading described the Chaco ruins, but I was wondering what they accually looked like. Hereare some pictures of some of the ruins. The second picture shows the scale of the ruins against some people; it amazes me how big the buildings are.
I found some really good pictures of Pueblo Bonito. This is a map that shows the site and a path through it. This picture is good for getting an idea of the area surrounding Pueblo Bonito and the ruins. Also, this site has a really good picture of Pueblo Bonito from a satellite. If you click to view the full image you get a really big picture of the Chaco canyon, and if you zoom in you can see other sites besides Pueblo Bonito.
I was interested to see what Pueblo Bonito looked like and decided to look into the ruins mentioned in the reading. http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/united_states/chaco_canyon.html is a site with a couple good photographs of ruins found around the city. Here is another extremely high quality picture of the ruins I thought was really cool: http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/rprestia/1301/images/IN023Taos-Pueblo-full-08.jpg
After reading the document I decided to look more at the Pueblo Bonito. The Pueblo Bonito was an anciend Chacoan Great House, and and interesting fact i learned about it was that Pueblo Bonito was not a village nor a city, despite its size. Rather, it was a place of worship.
After reading through the article, it showed me just how much tourism can affect the sites we see and how true these sites are, to what they would be had they not been as tempered with. People in so different monuments and ruins, create more problems for the people who acctually run them. It reminded me of how the inside of the Washington Monument was partially defaced, and you wonder how different it would be without all the people who had come through it.
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I thought it was interesting that Chaco is kept hard to reach. Is there a specific reason for keeping it isolated? Obviously, the reading said that Mesa Verde was atop a mesa. However, I didn't completely understand what a mesa was. I looked it up and found that it is an isolated, relatively flat-topped natural elevation, usually more extensive than a butte and less extensive than a plateau. The reading also said that kivas were associated with the kachina belief system. What exactly is the kachina belief system?
I thought it was really interesting how the weather differs so much and that sometimes you need special materials to get through certain times of the day (such as the SUV example). Another thing that interested me was the Pueblo Bonito. Obviously the name gives away the beauty of it but after reading even that short description I was amazed. This is an aerial village of Pueblo Bonito and here is another image which gives you more of an idea about what it would look like standing there. The way the run the tours of Pueblo Bonito and Mesa Verde is really detailed. I looked online at one of the tour website for Mesa Verde and there was a schedule there online of exactly what they would look at if you went with their tour and there is just so much to see and so much to learn!
Even though the reading was about Mesa Verde and Chaco, I was interested in Mesa Verde especially, because my family went there about 2 years ago. I was actually familiar with the term "kiva". I found a picture that showed a full view of Mesa Verde, since the reading only had pictures of the individual kivas. To get an idea of how big it is, compare the size of a person to one of the ladders in the kivas. The ladders are taller.
I think it is really interesting that the names of the people who created the Chaco and Mesa Verde are so vaguely named. I feel like it relates back to that video we watched about knowing the people and their culture and calling them by their real name. I was also wondering how long it took the people to create the Chaco and Mesa Verde, like what the time span of this was.
I was reading the assignment, and it menitons the word kibosh, and i was wondering what that was. It turns out that it is a fairly common word that I had just not heard before. It means a restraining elements, which makes sense for the context. Also, at the beginning of the reading in the 4th paragraph, what is it comparing? It is comparing Chaco to something else? What else, is it comparing it to? I just wanted a little clarification.
I found it interesting that Richard Wetherill, the architect who excavated the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, was murdered at Chaco. I wanted to know why. I looked him up using this Wikipedia article and discovered that he was the first one to use the term "Anasazi" to refer to the people who built Chaco and Mesa Verde and that he originally owned Chaco before President Theodore Roosevelt took it away from him and made it a national park. However, the article did not mention his death so I looked at this article The Murder of Richard Wetherill. The article, from a site maintained by Wetherill's descendents, states that Wetherill was found shot in the chest by his friend Bill Finn when he failed to come home from a cattle herding. Wetherill's murderer was never proven, but a Navajo man named Chis-chilling-begay, who had long accused Wetherill of being "violent and cruel to his people" was accused and spent several years in prison.
I was wondering why Richard Wetherill (the guy who explored Mesa Verde) was killed and how he was killed. According to this site, "Ahead and nearly between Richard and Finn a rifle was raised and sighted. Richard heard the echoing blast of the first shot but not the whistling lead that missed Finn. Still unseen, the rifle barrel swung in an arc of nearly sixty degrees. The second shot tore through Richard's raised right hand, the hand holding the reins, and smashed into his chest. He fell from his horse, not knowing who had killed him. Or why."
I'm still not clear but I guess that he wasn't either. I wonder if this site is biased in any way though. The writer seems kind of passionate about their story. It also claims to be a first-hand account. I'm wonder how they did that today...
I was interested in learning more about the cliff palace. I learned that there are many rooms whose function people don't understand. Since there were so many rooms, it could be that the Cliff Palace was the home to 100-120 people or even more. Inside the palace, there were 23 kivas and it is believed the this kiva was used to integrate two communities which could have lived at the palace. I found this videowhich shows a little of the Cliff Palace. I also found this painting
which looks like people building the Cliff Palace.
I looked into Puelbo Bonito, and this website has a lot of information on the ruins as well as some cool pictures.
I wanted to see what Mesa Verde looked like instead of just looking at a black and white sheet on my computer. I found this picture.
I also found this site while looking into Puelbo Bonito. It has a lot of information on the ruins and numerous pictures that I found interesting.
In the reading, it says how difficult it is to get to both Chaco and Mesa Verde. I wanted to find some pictures to see what these paths up to the sites would look like, and also the sites themselves. I found this picture of some random people going up there. In the picture, you can see that the path doesn't exactly look easy. Then this nice picture of Mesa Verde show the cliffs overhead and what it looks like at Mesa Verde. I also thought that this shot in the path was good.
I thought that the Aztec ruins national monument was interesting and although you had some pictures in the reading i went to find more because i wanted to see some more of the monument.
here are some that i found.
site with a few pictures
picture 1
picture 2
aerial image of the monument
I was curious about Chapin Mesa. As best I can figure out, the Mesa was named after Frederick H Chapin, a travel writer and photographer. I made some of the first widely available photographs of Mesa Verde.
The reading described the Chaco ruins, but I was wondering what they accually looked like. Here are some pictures of some of the ruins. The second picture shows the scale of the ruins against some people; it amazes me how big the buildings are.
I found some really good pictures of Pueblo Bonito. This is a map that shows the site and a path through it. This picture is good for getting an idea of the area surrounding Pueblo Bonito and the ruins. Also, this site has a really good picture of Pueblo Bonito from a satellite. If you click to view the full image you get a really big picture of the Chaco canyon, and if you zoom in you can see other sites besides Pueblo Bonito.
I was interested to see what Pueblo Bonito looked like and decided to look into the ruins mentioned in the reading. http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/united_states/chaco_canyon.html is a site with a couple good photographs of ruins found around the city. Here is another extremely high quality picture of the ruins I thought was really cool: http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/rprestia/1301/images/IN023Taos-Pueblo-full-08.jpg
I wanted to find out a little bit about Chaco Canyon. Here is a good site
that has to deal with Chaco Canyon.
Sorry it was late. I was out with my family.
After reading the document I decided to look more at the Pueblo Bonito. The Pueblo Bonito was an anciend Chacoan Great House, and and interesting fact i learned about it was that Pueblo Bonito was not a village nor a city, despite its size. Rather, it was a place of worship.
This website provides some good information
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/northamerica/pueblobonito.html
After reading through the article, it showed me just how much tourism can affect the sites we see and how true these sites are, to what they would be had they not been as tempered with. People in so different monuments and ruins, create more problems for the people who acctually run them. It reminded me of how the inside of the Washington Monument was partially defaced, and you wonder how different it would be without all the people who had come through it.
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