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Multi-periodSite Name: Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave Alternative Name: House Under the Rock
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 31.576 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Chinle, Arizona
Latitude: 36.232500N  Longitude: 109.3569W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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jeffrep visited on 5th Oct 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 2

bat400 saw from a distance on 1st Jun 2004 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2 I saw the ruin from an overlook to the west. You may only approach the ruins with a Navajo guide. There is no access directly into the ruins themselves.



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Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave Ruin
Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave Ruin submitted by bat400 : Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave Ruins, Apache County, Arizona. I thought this was the most amazing site we could see from the canyon rim. This photo was taken from a vantage point west of the ruin. Photo by bat400, June 2003. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave. Ancient Settlement in Apache County, Arizona.
Mummy Cave is one of the canyon sites occupied for the longest continuous period - 300 to 1300AD - with cultures and finds from Basketmaker to the Ancestral Puebloans who built the ruins seen here.

Named from two yucca wrapped preserved bodies found in the alcove in the 1880's. The timbers for the top of the three storey tower in the left of the picture were cut in 1284AD. This tower was in danger of collapsing in the 1930's and was stabilized. [From Native Roads, Fran Kosik, 1996.] This famous ruin of a village complex can be viewed from a canyon rim overlook or on a guided tour.

Note: Ancient "chaws" and preserved textiles yield DNA from southwestern people who used Mummy Cave. What can be discovered from saved "trash."
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Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave
Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave submitted by jeffrep : Mummy House Cave in Canyon de Chelly. It is called House Under the Rock by the Navajo. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave
Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave submitted by durhamnature : Old photo, from "1904 Smithsonian Report" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave by jeffrep on Friday, 09 November 2012
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Mummy Cave is called House Under the Rock by the Navajo.
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Canyon De Chelly - Film Clip by Anonymous on Friday, 31 August 2007
Here is a film clip with historical information on Canyon De Chelly:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKJJnBsWbNs


It is from a recreation of a 1911 Edward S. Curtis lecture and slide show.

Jay
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Ancient Quids, Clothes Yield DNA by bat400 on Thursday, 23 August 2007
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Some of the DNA yielding artifacts came from Mummy Cave.

"Steven LeBlanc has been dreaming about ancient DNA for several decades, but he never had any luck extracting it from museum artifacts. Then, a few years ago, LeBlanc, an archaeologist and collections manager at Harvard University's Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had a brainstorm. He was staring at drawers full of quids--wads of plant material chewed by ancient Native Americans--when he realized, "Quid ... saliva ... DNA ... DING!"

"In the September Journal of Field Archaeology, LeBlanc and several co-authors report that they have recovered DNA from 2000-year-old quids, as well as from aprons worn by Native Americans. The quids and aprons belonged to a vanished tribe that archaeologists call the Western Basketmakers. Between about 500 B.C.E. and 500 C.E., they lived in caves and rock shelters in what is now southern Utah and northern Arizona. Dry conditions are ideal for preserving DNA, and researchers have previously extracted ancient DNA from skeletons and feces of both humans and animals (ScienceNOW, 16 July 1998).

"LeBlanc teamed up with Thomas Benjamin, a cancer biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and other researchers. They pulled mitochondrial DNA from 48 quids and from 18 aprons that had been stained with what was likely menstrual blood. Then they scanned the DNA for various molecular markers called haplogroups, which appear in different frequencies in different parts of the world.

"They found that about 14% of these samples contained haplogroup A. This haplogroup is extremely rare in the Southwest, but it occurs in about half of the population of Central America. The intermediate frequency in the sample of Western Basketmakers fits with the idea that they migrated from somewhere in central Mexico, bringing agriculture into the turf of foragers. The results were confirmed by a second laboratory. The absence of European haplogroups rules out the possibility of contamination.

"The larger conclusion is that museum artifacts can provide a new source of data. Quids are common in collections."


For more, see Science Now.
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    Never Throw Anything Away... by bat400 on Thursday, 30 August 2007
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    Here is another story about the DNA extraction from Ancient wads of chewed yucca fiber in the US southwest. This one is a National Public Radio story that aired last Friday.

    In it, the researcher LeBlanc, speculates on the information that would have been lost if these modest wads of chewed fiber had been thrown out as unimportant. These quids were collected over 60 years before DNA was even discovered, let alone could be used as a tool in the way it is now. Modern archaeologists routinely collect and store large volumes of what may seem the merest trash. There is a major discussion in the field right now about what ought to be saved from digs.
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