I’ve been enjoying Desert Drifter’s videos of cliff dwellings, petroglyphs, pictographs, and artifacts in the SW, often in undisclosed locations to keep the scavengers from stealing artifacts.

I’m always afraid for their lives!

Why has that mud between the log and the rock not fallen off?

I see little rocks in the mud, I’m guessing they used river clay, and what else?

This is an outside wall and while sheltered, the wind hits it and I’m sure it gets wet during rain storms. This looks like recent work.

Did someone date the wood?  There are no termites?  It looks exactly like my fence posts.

Spring is always super busy here, but I’ll try to research these ancient building techniques, somebody must have analyzed the mud.