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- Santa Fe Arts and Crafts 4
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- Santa Fe Arts and Crafts 3
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- Santa Fe Arts and Crafts 2
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- Santa Fe Arts and Crafts 1
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- Adobe brick houses in Homolovi, an active archeological dig
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- I am fond of American “Park”itecture.
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- Rio Grande del Norte
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- Bandier cliff dwellings (caves) created almost 11,000 years ago!
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- Taos Pueblo, a world heritage site
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- Taos kilns/ovens, made of adobe mud and straw
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- Taos Pueblo, still inhabited
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- Astronomy is wonderful in the desert southwest nightsky, like here at Homolovi
Petroglyphs
See the similarities in petroglyph drawings by early man, in two different places in the world (Hawaii and northern New Mexico.)
Human face petroglyph to right of doorway, Bandier cliff dwellings
Hawaiian island petroglyph of human face
Both show the shape of a head and eyes. One can summarize this as the human need to show its mark on the world, honor human and spiritual beings (like good luck before the big hunt,) or express an inner urge to communicate artistically. I prefer the last explanation, because it shows man’s progression from shear survival mode to “thinking” man.