Ancient Anasazi artifacts discovered in Southwest Colorado

Back in 2003; while working as a ranch hand in Southwest Colorado, ancient artifact tools were being discovered scattered and buried throughout the property, giving evidence of this undocumented site as being once an ancient pit house village of the Anasazi, hundreds of years before the Cliff Dwellings were even built , 30 miles east of Mesa Verde  in  Cortez, Colorado.

After extensive research; a very similar whistle had been discovered in Mexico made with 2 holes and most importantly, consisted of ceramic fired clay; dated around the first century A.D. from the Aztec Mexican people had been featured in a publication book 'The Aztecs ~ second edition'.

This single hole whistle; made much earlier, discovered in Southwest Colorado is crafted from a naturally petrified clay called mudstone, which had become hard as stone through the millenia of time.

Eventually this Clay / stone material recognized for it's relative ease of hand working but extremely durable, was picked up by an Ancient of the Colorado Southwest known as the Anasazi.

Carefully tool chipped, smooth rounding shape forming a raised air chamber, pigment painted, and bored into a handcrafted single hole Whistle, was used by a Shaman medicine man. This whistle is believed to be a sacred wind instrument, creating multiple resonating pitches to call the great spirit.

From it's very first beginnings, this whistle had been successfully passed down for many generations specifically used for religious ceremonial applications thousands of years B.C.;... many hundreds of years before multiple holed whistles, Ocarinas, and flutes were developed. As time progressed though, these eventually became musical wind instruments for tribal cultural identity and musical pleasure.

The living area size of the Anasazi occupation is known to be approximately the state size of Kentucky ~ consisting of partial land areas in each of the 4 corner states of the Southwest. A mysterious mystical ancient place, the only place where 4 states meet into a corner in the country ~ 40,000 square miles of area. The chance that this only one known in existence single hole ancient whistle, which is about the size of a U.S. silver dollar, being discovered in the vastness of this area,... is just about incomprehensible to conceive.

After years of contacting hundreds of people in their respective disciplines, This most important cultural discovery unfortunately has and continues to be completely ignored. I suspect that if it were really a hoax, or not the object of it's true understanding,... I would have been challenged by now to say otherwise, but instead there is complete silence from Archaeologists, Universities, and museums.

While continuing the research & studying of this artifact's past cultural significance, It was interesting to learn of the Smithsonian Institute's file records of Native American Whistles; which incidentally, there are 800 known whistles recorded in their inventory, but not one listing exists for a description of a single hole whistle made from mudstone.

Robert J Thomas