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| no partners | | Finally made it out to Anderson Mesa. Of course @hansenaz has been to this mound pueblo before. Btw - check out his YouTube channel!
It really is quite overwhelming - the amount of pottery, extent of artifacts, and stunning location.
We found the awl - a hunk of bone for poking holes in things - weathering out of a wall that runoff had recently washed down. Maybe a trash pit, as charcoal, sherds, and other bones. It’s wild that stuff is 750 years old. The skills in making that pristine point. My favorite stuff is debitage, points, stone tools, etc. stone terraces/check dams all over the place.
Even saw some seashells by a tank on the way in.
Saw a heard of 100 elk on the way in to our campsite. Didn’t see anyone else where we camped. On labor day weekend - that is hard to do.
That morning my mom met us at the lake. Bumpy drive in to where we parked - where two roads meet. Hiked about a mile and half to site (longer but we missed a fork in the road and it sent us north for a half mile). Way hotter feeling that I thought it would be (humid).
I’ve got a lifted 4x4 truck with AT rubber. Wasn’t stoked about how rocky the area is.
My toddler and 5 year old might have been the first ones down there for a while. I think they’re too young to appreciate it.
The amount of pottery and lithic materials is overwhelming. Wish I would have gotten more pics! Might got back in October. There’s a site to south that looks cool too - clearly visible on Google maps.
Some turds (sheriff deputies) from a nearby county got busted digging and looting the site in the mid aughts. |
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