It is unusual that the climate is this dry.  The Foreman says its a seven 
year drought. Two pond as you can see is almost gone and Collier Tank is dry.
 


 The last duck is over at the 10 foot of water left at two pond.  
It is suppose to be the monsoon season but no real rains yet.  It 
just may be that what I am finding and seeing has never been seen 
as it is only the dry weather that allows me to explore the 
region.  The fossils may only be bleeding out of the canyon walls 
because of the drought.  The pottery is only exposed because the 
hot dry wind is uncovering it by removing the surface layer.  One 
thing is for sure, I could not have seen the ruin just on the left 
as you drive by the dry Collier Tank at any other time.  As a result 
of the dry area I was able to go a slightly different route to approach
 the big water full.  To my amazement and surprise there it was.  
Just a couple hundred feet from where I had been driving in the 
past.  Were we all blind as once you saw the rock towers you could 
not see anything else.  


It was more than just a village, it had much pottery and chipped quartz 
all around. The rooms were defined on the ground and each corner had a 
rock tower.  It seemed that someone had dug a trench and exposed the 
pit house walls. 




A reward for anyone who can offer a good explanation of why these towers 
or corners are standing like this.  If you send me an email with your 
explanation and we like it..... we will send you a couple of the pottery 
fragments from this village.


email to: chuck@911nm.com




There was so much pottery that it began to confound me.  It was not just
 on the south east side, it was extending in a south direction right 
up to the canyon walls.  I told Dave my team partner this trip that 
either there was a cliff dwelling some where up the canyon wall or 
there was another village on top of the butte.  This meant climbing the 
canyon walls.  No easy feat for me and Dave.  After struggling to get up 
to the first ledge of the walls I determined that the pottery was coming 
from the top of this butte and the mesa above.  



The climb was rough and the heat was worse.  It must have been 100 degrees 
and we could only find two places to get over the top.  Each looked bad so 
I took on and Dave the other. We knew we could not get back down the way 
we had come up be the prize seemed to great to pass up.  Once on the top 
we crossed a micro climate and sand dune.  Through some trees only to 
reveal a new set of walls in the distance.  I knew if we had to climb 
it as well we would have to give up and start our trek back to the car.  
The closer to the new wall and butte we got the more pottery we found.  
These mesa tops and walls remind me of the steps of central asia.  There 
was a mound with pottery all around.  This was it.  It was the source. 
 We had found another village.  There was a magic in its location.  As 
I stood at the highest point of the building I could see that there was
 a central focus.  The big water fall.  The big water fall pointed directly 
to this spot.  The talking lights in the niches were focused directly here.  






This was the village the water fall communicated with.  These were the 
people who did the petroglyphs to the falls.  It was obvious that 
trenching had taken place here also.  The type of building was different 
then that below in the canyon.  We would not have to visit the big water 
fall and view the village from there.



It's the next week and we are on the way to the big water fall.  Its 
an hour climb through rough terrain.  The big fall is a run off of 
Mesa Preiatta.  On one side it is canyon and sand stone on the other 
its volcanic rock and large pumice.  



From the top of the fall it was obvious.  The fall was at the same 
level as the village.  The search light and talking lights were aimed 
directly at the village.  There was a magic in the connection high 
in the air over a great distance yet connected. 



On the way from the fall to the village many petroglyphs could be made out.



The next set up dwellings had a grinder placed on the wall.  
This is the first flat grinder I have found.  I also found
the pusher rock for it as well.
 



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