THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA | Mesa Verde | PBS

[kairoti]

The guy at 4:39 was my history professor at Fort Lewis College.

[cleekmaker00]

The Ancient Pueblo cultures had knowledge of astronomy and architecture that rivaled anything being created in the rest of the world during that period in history. The Wetherills and Nordenschold introduced the world to these extraordinary people. Canyon de Chelly, Chaco Canyon, Hovenweep, Betatikin... the proof is there thankfully, for all of us to see and behold.

[briantravelman]

im going there this summer

[gnas06]

I work there during the summer months...a great place to work.

[bornbillsmith]

This story should have been about the cliff themselves not about some white people who came upon the site and started steeling its treasures.

It would have been more interesting and historically more significant to have told the story on how these spaces were constructed and how they show a level of design that given the difficulties that the site gives you and the lack of an infulstructure is just as advanced as what was going on in Europe.

[bornbillsmith]

We will never know how these cliff dwellers lived but because they show a level of understanding of urban planning (yes I said Urban planning) and construction that could only have been achieved by a sophisticated society that had both a scientific and artistic background.

Something we never give credit to the natives in this world.

[mwillblade]

They should turn it into a casino !

[howie448]

very good!

[fatcat1949]

great video

[johncrwarner]

Stunning - this is so impressive - though Ken Burns choice of music has irritated me since the Civil War - those bloody violin tunes were so irritating.