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FWIW, there's no way of knowing those houses are actually ancient artifacts.
by knowaveragejoe 11y ago
FWIW, there's no way of knowing those houses are actually ancient artifacts.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoI know of no modern population in the American Southwest that produced pottery and stone houses on mesas. It seems a pretty safe bet. The other preserved sites in the area are estimated at 500 years old. Not terribly ancient; but worth preserving.
- kragen 11y agoAcoma Pueblo is currently producing pottery and stone houses on a mesa, as they've been doing for 900 years, although like everybody else, they buy a lot of their pottery at Wal-Mart. But they also make some to sell to tourists. And more of their construction is adobe than stone at the moment, but a lot of it (especially the older parts) is adobe-grouted masonry. Wouldn't be surprising at all if those houses were 50, or 100, or 150 years old, rather than ancient artifacts.
- JackFr 11y agoAt the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art one of my favorite things is graffiti chipped in the stone by British soldiers campaigning against Napoleon in Egypt. It's not ancient, but it's still history. (The Temple was relocated with the cooperation of the Egyptian government when the Aswan dam would have flooded it.)