ARIZONA "CITY OF THE DEAD" WITH

HUNDREDS OF TOMBS COULD BE FROM THE

PALEOLITHIC

The Pyramid A Group in the Black Mesa Basin. According to the National Park Service several Paleo-Indian ruins have been information suppressed on both Arizona state and federal public lands, to protect the integrity of the sites as well as prohibit relic theft, vandalism and encroachment. Several of the ancient sites are also surrounded by recent Pueblo Indian ruins, as this wall in foreground that dates from the 1200 AD. The mound structures in the distance could be some thousands of years old. Chilchinbeto-Several archaeological teams from Eastern Arizona University excavating the remains of Native American settlements near the town of Chilchinbeto, in the southeastern corner of Arizona, have uncovered a large quantity of ruins and artifacts, allegedly of an undiscovered Paleo-Indian or Paleolithic origin. Eight mound pyramids and hundreds of tombs mostly containing skeletons with various relics including bowls, spears, gold and beads, were found on what could be the seat of an ancient civilization, predating even the Mexican cultures, the first on the North American continent. American archaeologists excavating in the desert rift valleys of the northeastern Black Mesa Basin near the Four Corners area of the state of Arizona have been provided access to several pyramid ruins and hundreds of tombs which researchers believe may have been abandoned since the late-fiftieth millennium BC. Information about the ancient stone structures of this mysterious necropolis had been suppressed by the officials of the Smithsonian Institution since they were found in the early 1970s. The Peamon Mining Company had made the discovery after several contracted surveys with the Navajo tribe to preserve Indian cultural and sacred sites were initiated, which led to their find prior to the beginning of mining operations on tribal lands. Field members from Bourne University's Hurston Institute of Anthropological Studies (BUHIAS) were transported to the small Navajo town some sixty miles from the Kayeta Mine, to assist in the study of the ancient human cultural evidence, where for decades the area was protected by restricted access and still has been rendered secured. Nothing has become more significant than these astonishing archaeological discoveries found in the Black Mesa Basin, and heated debates for the find in academic circles have already begun. The revealing of the Black Mesa ruins may already have serious indications not only for science's accepted theories of human evolution, but also for historical geological concerns as well. (Left) Archaeologists prepare excavation site at Pyramid B Group. (Upper right) Several Eastern Arizona University scientists examining an unearthed human skeleton. (Lower right) Bourne University technician uncovering and documenting the uncovering of a large stone idol also near the Pyramid B Group site. Several other carved idols were found scattered around the find.

The Mysterious Necropolis

When the necropolis was first surveyed by Peamon in 1973 there was an identification of six mound pyramids. Subsequent searches brought the initial number to eight, with several containing added companion structures and markers. The current excavation, now headed by Dr. Reinhardt Canning of Eastern Arizona University's Department of Archaeology, began last June, and had been investigating two promising locations which were believed to produce promising results. The scientists were rewarded with an entrance to an underground tunnel. Locations of the Paleolithic ruins in the Black Mesa Basin ravines. While the mapping of the main three mount pyramids proceeded, each group was provided numbered designations for recording. The first site, called Pyramid A group, were the three ruins the scientists concentrated on first; the second and third, Pyramid B group, two smaller bricked structures some nine miles northwest of Pyramid A group; and Pyramid C group, three small mound structured ruins that were twelve miles southwest. The sites were protected by high ravines and hidden in the Black Mesa's torturous geological structures, being difficult to access only by four wheel drive vehicles, laborious hiking or helicopter drop. (Foreground) Black Mesa Basin from Chilchinbeto. (Insert) Ground penetrating data was conducted last year under great secrecy which suggested large chambers, tunnels and tombs hidden under the Pyramid A Group mounds. An initial survey of the "Pyramid A group" parcel by archaeologists using the new Earther Imager system, an excellent ground penetrating radar mobile application using auto calibrating and triple frequency signals to provide digital maps of subsurface data for identifying underground structures without exploratory excavating, showed a series of tunnels and other chambers that extended some six hundred feet and were scattered underneath the three "A" pyramids. Tunnel entrance excavated by local workers leading to underground chambers and corridors under Pyramid A, the largest of the ruins. Study of the entrance barriers concluded the structure had not been accessed for thousands of years. As the excavation of Pyramid A, B and C progressed, the scientists uncovered a buried doorway that led underground Pyramid A with large rocks piled near the walls. There were no indications whether or not these had been intentionally placed or dislodged over the years. Exterior base relief sculpture example on Pyramid A commonly found on all the pyramid groups demonstrate a death cult or necropolis tomb theme of death. Archaeologists are studying where or not the necropolis structures are tombs or ancient sacrificial temples. The ornaments have been verified as actual human skulls adorned into the pyramid's base structures. Entering the dark, dusty opening after local workers removed the debris, the archaeologists entered the tunnel and discovered a large carved anti-chamber with an adjutant tunnel leading deeper inside. Several entombed human skeletons lay buried near the entrance outside or within the chamber itself. These had common bone characteristics expected of the short, sturdy square jawed remains of the early American aboriginal indigenous peoples. "These burial sites could have served primarily as open tombs of both cultural and spiritual purposes. These were common to ancient cultures that were more focused on burial mounds as the monumental pivot of communities lacking large settlements to the later emphasis on cemeteries that were outside the cities. The inhabitance made the platforms the center of their lives. Dozens of skeletons buried together appear to have been sacrificed at the Pyramid A site. Their heads were removed and their bones show strong evidence of hacking, chopping and dismemberment," said Professor Canning. Remarkably, many of the mammoth blocks of stone were carved and moved from lower canyon quarries from harder rock shales overlain with sandstone, not unlike transportation of building blocks that were engineered by the ancient Egyptian and Polynesian cultures. (Upper left) Once the opening was breached, archaeologists then entered the Pyramid A and discovered evidence of carved ornamentation leaning towards necropolis themed relics. A carved human skull guards the passage into the crumbling corridor. (Lower left) Base relief in the continuing corridor. (Right) Stone head leaning toward a later Meso American style. Scientists believe the Paleo-Indians arrived in southeastern Arizona and began building large settlements some 14,000 years ago due to archaeological findings (there is ample evidence this timeline is correct). Speculations presented envision these natives would have found the ruins of the pyramids and built over them using whatever materials they could have dismantled after the necropolis was long abandoned. Therefore, there are questions as to when the tomb city was build and by whom, since no records have been uncovered. (Left) Anti-chamber located past corridor containing human skeletons in open burials. (Upper right) Suspected vertical airshaft in the tunnel past the anti-chamber, dropping down over one hundred feet. Cameras were dropped into the shaft later in the exploration, uncovering a huge cavernous chamber of hundreds of human skeletons unburied in the lower tomb. (Lower right) The end of the tunnel showing similar base relief as found on the surface near Pyramid B group. Large stone doors halted the exploration past this location until further equipment is sent.

Exploring the Possible Clue to the Black Mesa Ruins

The most surprising portions of the oral traditions and recent written histories are concerning the "Anasazi", the Navajo word translated as “ancient enemy,” or "enemy ancestors", which were presumably the peoples that built and worked to carve the large sandstone blocks that compose the necropolis. “For a century it was presumed that ‘Anasazi" were possibly the Ancestral Puebloans, but here we have descriptions of an ‘ancient enemy’ building underground as well as on land, and the oral traditions mentioning the ‘ma'iitsoh (wolf) men of great stature’ was used to describe the peoples who lived during the construction of the mounds,” explained Prof. Edward Garvie, of the Feary School of Ancient American Studies, Bourne University. “They are described as ‘god-like beasts’or ‘chindi’(demons) who “build stone idols to their gods”, whose arms when outstretched ‘sought the bones of men’ and ‘whose bones made ornaments they wore’, which lets us believe the description of an ancient pagan cult or religious costume wearing peoples could depict a new, unknown civilization of Paleo-Indians of some type prior to the Ancestral Puebloans in the southwest,” he adds. It would now seem that previous theories on the Black Mesa ruin was incorrect, which could ultimately lead to a sweeping emendation of what ancient life was like on the northern and southern American continents in the prehistoric past. Found in broken flooring of the tunnel end near the stone doors, an irregular human sized skeleton with a wolf or other unknown mammalian head. Some archaeologists believe the find may represent a ceremonial or spirit deity constructed by the city peoples to represent their religious beliefs. Further study has been undergoing on this curious artifact.

An Ancient Ruin Ancient When the Paleo-Indians Came

In the time the necropolis was built, the Ancestral Puebloans, the first ancient Native American culture that spanned southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado had not yet developed. Their range of structures that included grand pueblos, cliff dwellings, house clans and ceremonial kivas, with knowledge of celestial sciences formed in their architecture would not appear until the 12th century BC. Only primitive hunter gatherers, archaeologists agree, migrated then through the Americas and the southwest after the last Ice Age. Mass grave found in tomb chambers connected to the first level explored by the scientists using cameras dropped 300 feet in what is believed to be airshafts. Radar and thermal data suggest other deeper chambers and labyrthine corridors have yet to be breached and explored with cameras and imaging devices. locked gasses within the corridors have kept the personal exploration to the ground entrances until more equipment is brought in. Where this mysterious ruin originated from near Black Mesa near Chilchinbeto, which has now been officially reserved for recognition of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and provided the same protections from the 1970s, has been an astonishing mystery. While there are no definite clues on the mysterious builders of this abandoned necropolis, the recent recognition of this magnificently constructed Black Mesa ruin has already caused heated debates among academic circles on the prehistory of the area and questioned the accepted theories of prehistoric human development on this continent in many ways. The Smithsonian Institution has requested restrictions be increased for access to the Black Mesa Basin ruins to outside Arizona archaeologists, who believe there may be more artifacts, tombs and underground surprises to uncover, being that the excavations will need to be supervised by Eastern Arizona University. The Smithsonian has also assured that the contracted archaeological recognition of sacred and cultural Native American sites will continue at Black Mesa, expecting that more news of this fascinating tomb city will continue to be unveiled.