2013-14 8 А Чубарь Е. Dead Valley.

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Death Valley is home to an American Indian tribe timbisha who moved here for at least 1,000 years ago. Several families of this tribe still live in the valley in the vicinity of Furness Creek. The name of the valley in the Indian language tümpisa means "rock paint" and associated with the valley as a source-based paint red ocher. Another village in the valley was located in Grapevine Canyon, near present-day location of Scotty's Castle. The village was called Maahunu.

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Its modern name Valley received in 1849 during the California gold rush. In the 1850s, the valley is a producer of gold and silver. In 1913, the decision of President Hoover Death Valley came under the protection of the federal government.

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Moving stones, also called rolling or crawling rocks - geological phenomenon found in the dried lake Reystrek Playa in Death Valley in the USA.

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The stones slowly move along the muddy bottom of the lake, as evidenced by long traces that remain of them. Stones move independently without the help of living beings, but no one has ever seen or recorded the movement of the camera. Such movements stones were seen in several other places, but the number and length of tracks Reystrek Playa much stands out among the rest.