![]() ![]() Sam explained that artifacts still cover the site. Sam was our guide, and he took us inside the kiva on the mesa, which is surrounded by the ruins of several buildings with many small rooms, one fairly well-preserved larger building, and a spot where a reservoir once sat (farming went on down below the mesa). I added to the collection of shards and obsidian started by tourists before me.įor the tour itself, I chose the mesa dwellings, since I’d already seen the larger and better known cliff dwellings at nearby Bandelier. In recent years, some Indians of New Mexico have been turning to that fiber again. One of the archaeologists explained that waterproofed yucca vessels could be used as cooking pots, with hot rocks dropped inside to warm a stew. The archaeologists went on to explain how the ancestral Pueblo people and their descendants made a fiber from yucca, which was used for shoes, clothing, and baskets, among other items. Thank you for indulging my juvenile diversion. The diffusion of the atlatl is a mystery: was it spread by migration and/or trade contact, or did it originate independently in areas as distant as Australia and South America? I don’t know, but I do know I love to say atlatl. ![]() We also heard how the first New Mexicans used the atlatl, as people around the world did to increase the range and force of their thrown missiles. The discussion included a short lesson on how the paleo-Indians hunted, and how the dry New Mexico climate has helped preserve artifacts that would have disintegrated in other parts of North America. We saw arrowheads from the era, some made from obsidian, which turns up frequently at Puye (the Spanish, when confronting the Aztecs to the south, quickly learned of the acute sharpness of weapons made from this volcanic rock, and in modern times surgeries have been done with obsidian tools, which leave behind smaller scars). The state, you may know, was the home of two paleo-Indian sites that gave their name to past cultures: Clovis and Folsom. Two state archaeologists were on hand, displaying artifacts-genuine and replica-representing some 14,000 years of New Mexico history. ![]() The Santa Clarans administer the cliff site today and provide the guides for the tour.īefore the tour, I wandered around the Exhibition Hall, which had a one-day treat. Today’s descendants of the residents live just to the east and north at Santa Clara Pueblo. We are also given a vast arsenal of futuristic guns, though unlike most MOBA games, we won’t find melee or magical weapons in Shards of War.The Puye cliff (and mesa) dwellings date back to about the 900s and were occupied for almost 700 years. There are 10 different Guardians to choose from, each specializing in a different fields and able to fulfill role of attacker, tank or support. Both groups have to deal with opposing Guardians, drones and turrets, and then raid on and destroy enemy’s headquarter. Gameplay focuses on rivalry of two teams consisting of five members, with rules being extremely simplified. One of them wants to bring back peace and close time-space portals, while members of the other only desire to finish the act of destruction and safely return to their home world. In a fictional Empire City warriors from different worlds called Guardians fight between each other under two different factions. Game takes us to a grim, dystopian vision of a future, in which borderlines between realities have blurred away, and parallel worlds fight for hegemony and survival. It has been developed by experienced team of German Bigpoint studio, known from such productions as Drakensang Online or Battlestar Galactica Online. Shards of Wars for PC is an online action game set in a science-fiction world and belonging to MOBA genre (Multiplayer Online Battle Idea), which combines features of RPG, arcade, and strategy games. ![]()
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