Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and
Area of black assault boulders on which weve got 24,000 petroglyphs. The story of the National Monument isnt just about a single petroglyph or concentrations. It also includes the volcanic cones and the mesa top that spreads out towards albuquerque. The pueblo people would come up to the mesa top. We have evidence of them carrying water and farming. Sometimes they would send their children up here to keep the rabbits away from their crops. We see many ancient trails up here and this becomes part of a larger spiritual landscape thats important to most pueblo people. Were here at Boca Negra Canyon and were going to be walking on the macaw trail. What we see here is 113 feet tall. These black boulders once came from several sheet flows from if the volcano. Most of our 150,000 visitors stop here first. This is one of the first petroglyph that people who come to the monument might see. It is a carving on to the rock. Pueblo people would use stone chisels and hammered to peck, abrade, incise
Monument. We are located within albuquerque, new mexico. The area provides access to five volcanoes. The volcanoes are important to Petroglyph National Monument because they begin to tell the geologic story. , a crack ins ago the earths crust, hot molten lava poured out in volcanic corruptions. Some spreading a couple of miles to the east. As these are ructions took place, they flowed out over layers of soil in the rio grande valley. Hardenedardened, they into what we have here. Black, botht of salt boulders. The story of Petroglyph National Monument is not about petroglyphs. It is also including the volcanic cones and mesa top that spreads out towards albuquerque. They would come up. We have evidence of them carrying water and farming. Sometimes, they would send their children up here to get the rabbits away. We see many ancient trails. This is part of a larger, spiritual landscape to the web look equal. People. Ueblo we are going to be walking on a trail. Expert olcanic escarpment. T
On the eastern side, we find boring holes such as sponges which indicate higher salinity waters. The banded tulip shells are some of the clues or indicators to where people were going to collect food, particularly when they are in an assemblage or mix with other pieces. They other near shores, shallow sea grass. They dont require hook and line fishing technique. So by careful, Detailed Analysis through this landscape, we begin to understand the resilience of the people here and parts of their Cultural Development and formati formation. We also know that they endured an extreme period of longterm cold and that when that happened, fish were not available in the harbor, and people abandoned this site for about 100 years around a. D. 800. When they returned around a. D. 900 was when they began to use the middance and the midden mounds for everyone live okay top of them and to be building massive structures as well as excavating a canal here that took the route of what was likely a freshwat
Sometimes, they would send their children up here to get the rabbits away. We see many ancient trails. This is part of a larger, spiritual landscape to the web look equal. The pueblo people. We are going to be walking on a trail. We see a volcanic expert escarpment. These black boulders came from several flows from the volcano. This is the easiest place to see petroglyphs. Most of our hundred 50,000 bidders 150,000 visitors stop here. It is a carving on the rock. Pueblo people use stone chisels and hammers to carve out the dark, black patina, exposing the rock. Some people ask us how these petroglyphs were discovered. For the pueblo indians, they are as old as time. They have known about them since their creation stories. Modernday archaeologists date these images from 1200 to 1650. In the 1970s, archaeologists came out to the west mesa and begin to inventory these images. Interest in these group. Eventually, they became a National Monument. To the pueblo people, they believed that the