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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14TC_the-citadel-natural-features_Flagstaff-AZ.html
The CitadelIt was a remarkable achievement, to use primitive mortar and local stones to build the walls above you straight up from the edge of the top of the rock. "The Citadel" is the modern name given to this ruin because of its location, but ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14T6_a-gathering-place_Flagstaff-AZ.html
]Panel 1:]Between 1100 and 1200, more people lived in this area than ever before, or since. Located along routes linking large populations to the northeast and south, villages here were well situated for trade. As people, goods, and ideas converge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14T5_wukoki_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Wukoki, a modern Hopi word for "Big House" was once home for two or three prehistoric Indian families. The inhabitants are believed to have been of the Kayenta Anasazi culture, judging from the types of artifacts found during excavation and stabil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRYL_community_Flagstaff-AZ.html
This area seems quiet and lonely today - but not 800 years ago. This valley was used for farming and hunting by the people living in Citadel, Nalakihu, and other nearby pueblos, all inhabited at about the same time. (You can see the ruins of at le…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRYK_where-were-the-fields_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Farming then did not mean vast fields like we use today. Anasazi and Sinagua people modified these small terraces to grow hand-tended corn, cotton, beans, and squash. We know the climate was about what it is now, very dry for farming. The terraces…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRYI_nalakihu_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Nalakihu - A modern Hopi name, "House Outside the Village"
Farmers lived here about 800 years ago. (Roof beams gave tree ring dates in the late 1100s.) The way the walls join show this small pueblo was not built all at once, but was added onto.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRY7_the-blowhole_Flagstaff-AZ.html
This blowhole - a crevice in the earth's crust that appears to breathe - is one of several found in the Wupatki area. It connects to an underground passage - size, depth, and complexity unknown - called an earthcrack. Earthcracks resulted from ear…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRY2_the-ballcourt_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Ballcourts were common in southern Arizona from A.D. 750 to 1200, but relatively rare here in the northern part of the state. This suggests that the people of Wupatki intermingled with their southern Arizona neighbors - the Hohokam - who may have …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRY0_changes-to-come_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Buried under Sunset Crater's lava and cinders are perhaps dozens of pithouses. Those excavated revealed few artifacts; even building timbers had been removed. This suggests people had ample warning of the impending eruption.
The changed environ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRXY_life-and-landscape-transformed_Flagstaff-AZ.html
The landscape before you has existed on Earth for less than 1,000 years, less time than Romanesque architecture or paper money. Consequently, this environment has unique scientific value.
Geologists come here to study weathering processes and s…