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Wupatki -Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia Follow Us: Membership Encyclopedia Index Timeline Explore Videos Images AudioWaresToolsWarmed-overAtlas Weights & Measures Random Page Latin Dictionary Newsletter Contribute Submissions Needed Content Style Guide Terms & Conditions Join the Team Shop Men's Clothing Women's Clothing Magazines Prints BooksWell-nighAbout Our Team Annual Reports Contact Privacy Advertise Support Us Membership How to Help Donate Corporate Sponsorship Login Login Register Wupatki Definition by James Blake Wiener published on 24 September 2018 Wupatki or Wupatki National Monument is an Ancestral Puebloan site that contains over 800 warmed-over ruins. It is situated in the north-central region of the US state of Arizona and is approximately 50 km (31 miles) northeast of the present-day municipality of Flagstaff, 282 km (175 miles) north of Phoenix, and 16 km (10 miles) northeast of Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. Wupatki Pueblo, the largest structure within the National Monument, was once the home of roughly 85-150 people who likewise built two kiva structures, a ballcourt, and other buildings, all of which were synthetic between 1100-1200 CE. Wupatki Pueblo reflects a confluence of originative and architectural styles; the zone was the site of intense cross-cultural interaction among variegated Native American cultures.Ethnicpeoples x-rated Wupatki Pueblo and its nearby hamlets c. 1275 CE under mysterious circumstances. US Lieutenant Lorenzo Sitgreaves rediscovered and documented Wupatki Pueblo and other ruins in 1851 CE as he searched for a suitable overland route from New Mexico to California. Wupatki is currently a US National Monument, and the US National Park Service has overseen the site’s ruins since it was first registered in 1924 CE by the US President Calvin Coolidge. Geography & Prehistory The name "Wupatki" is of Hopi derivation and ways "tall house," which refers to the ruined pueblos formerly occupied in warmed-over times. The Wupatki National Park rests perfectly on an zone of 35,422 acres or 56 square miles. Wupatki is located on the on the lattermost southern part of the Colorado Plateau in what at first appears to be an inhabitable terrain. Nonetheless, there is much diversity in unique ecological zones and microclimates considering Wupatki occupies a climate zone between the Painted Desert and the increasingly fertile highlands of Northern Arizona. Ponderosa pines, juniper, and pinyon pine, and grasslands thus flourish in the upper elevations while sagebrush, yucca, and other plants occupy lower terrains. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here The zone was the site of intense cross-cultural interaction among variegated Native American cultures. This ecological and environmental diversity permitted peoples to settle the zone in and virtually Wupatki in prehistoric times. Archaeology confirms that humans have inhabited the region virtually Wupatki for nearly 10,000 years. Two spear points dating to 8,000-11,000 years ago have been found in the area. Recent research moreover suggests that prehistoric Clovis hunters might have pursued either mammoth or bison in the Wupatki area. Nomadic tribes of Native Americans frequented the region until well-nigh c. 500 CE to venery wild antelope and jackrabbits, while moreover gathering supplies on a seasonal basis. Ancestral Puebloan Occupation The Sunset Crater Volcano erupted c. 1064-1065 CE, forever interchange life in the warmed-over desert Southwest. Volcanic ash and cinders spread over a space of 1280 km (800 miles) virtually the volcano, and it was certainly noticed by the warmed-over Hohokam people living in what is now present-day southern Arizona as well as Ancestral Puebloan peoples based in Chaco Canyon. The region virtually the volcano, including Wupatki, soon emerged as something unreceptive to a cultural melting pot. Scientists and archaeologists have suggested that volcanic worriedness created an ultra fertile soil, which helped conserve moisture, permitting crops like corn and cotton grow increasingly efficiently. Between 1100 and 1160 CE, it has been unscientific that perhaps 3,000 people relocated to the zone in and virtually Wupatki National Monument to occupy new hamlets and farm. A petroglyph located some 10 km (6 miles) northeast of Wupatki depicts the falling volcanic pebbles and possibly a migration of peoples to and from the region. Mesa Verde National Park in what is now Colorado is one of the few places that can rival Wupatki in the density of ruin sites. It averages virtually increasingly than 40 sites per square mile, but in unrepealable portions of Wupatki National Monument, it is increasingly than 100 sites per square mile. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here The local ethnic population in the zone at the time of Sunset Crater’s 11th-century CE eruption consisted primarily of Sinagua people who employed wide masonry styles that were similar to the Mogollon culture of what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona. In the decades pursuit the eruption, it appears that some Sinagua people migrated elsewhere and the remaining Sinagua population was joined by Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) people like the Winslow and Kayenta of eastern and northern Arizona. The Cohonina from what is present-day western Arizona moreover seem to have moved into the region, and some Hohokam people from southern Arizona made their way to the region as well. These people all mingled with the ethnic Sinagua, sharing new ideas concerning technologies, art, and agriculture, while erecting structures that often conform to and resemble those of other Ancestral Puebloan Great Houses like those of Aztec ruins in New Mexico and others that lie elsewhere in the Four Corner’s region between New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. Wupatki is nonetheless 300 km yonder from Chaco Canyon in what is present-day New Mexico, and it should be remembered that Wupatki was increasingly contemporaneous with Aztec Ruins rather than the ruins at Chaco Canyon. The buildings at Wupatki National Monument were made from red Moenkopi sandstone, basalt, and Kaibab limestone. Wupatki Pueblo is the largest ruined pueblo within the boundaries of the park, and it contains over 100 rooms. There are other wieldy pueblos nearby, including the Citadel, Lomaki, Nalakihu, Wukoki, and the Box Canyon Ruins. The Citadel was the next largest without Wupatki Pueblo with increasingly than 50 rooms. The majority of sites at Wupatki, however, are small in size; 1,080 out of 2,397 sites contain a single room, while 723 have two to six rooms or pithouses. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here The people who inhabited Wupatki built stone houses perched atop the shallow canyons that led to the Little Colorado River, and they traded with their neighbors near and far. Archaeologists have uncovered 41 scarlet macaw remains - used in religious ceremonies - in wing to turquoise, many copper bells, and shells from the Pacific Ocean. At Wupatki, one moreover finds both unshut kivas that were unroofed and worldwide amongst the Ancestral Puebloan people as well as a formalism ballcourt like those used by the Hohokam. This particular ballcourt is the most northerly ballcourt in the warmed-over Southwest. All of these structures stage from c. 1125-1195 CE, and they attest to the rich confluence of ideas in Wupatki's formalism landscape.Zealotry& Native Memory Wupatki’s zealotry mirrors that of other warmed-over sites in the desert Southwest including Hovenweep in Utah and the Ancestral Puebloan settlements at Mesa Verde National Park. Some have theorized that the soil virtually Wupatki became worn-out due to intensive agricultural production. A few have suggested that the volcanic cinders and ash which had made the region so fertile were squandered yonder by winds, leaving little land misogynist for agricultural cultivation. Still others pointed out that the region experienced a prolonged period of drought in the 13th century CE. It would seem likely that Wupatki’s inhabitants x-rated their pueblos, pithouses, and hamlets gradually, and they migrated towards the west or south to form other pueblos.  Withoutc. 1300 CE, it is known that the Hopi tribe performed ceremonies and hunted in and virtually Wupatki. Many ruins at Wupatki are well-preserved considering they are still revered by Native Americans. 13 variegated ethnic Native American communities requirement ties of thoroughbred or history to Wupatki at the present: the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, the Navajo Nation, the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, the Havasupai Tribe, the Hualapai Tribe, the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, the Yavapai-Apache Nation, the White Mountain Apache Tribe, the Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona, the San Carlos Apache Tribe of Arizona, the Kaibab Band of Paiutes, and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona. Wupatki’s ruins remain of immense importance to the Hopi and Zuni peoples who protract to revere it as a sacred place and tell stories well-nigh its past through oral histories. Although the Navajo later settled the areas in and virtually Wupatki c. 1750-1800 CE, unrepealable Navajo clans requirement unification to the Wupatki's ruins too, as the ruins aid the Navajo in preserving their records of clan migrations in the region as evidenced by oral tradition. Editorial Review ThisVendiblehas been reviewed for accuracy, reliability and trueness to wonk standards prior to publication. LearnIncreasinglyRelatedWaresBooks Bibliography Cite This Work LicenseWell-nightheTragedianJames Blake Wiener James is a writer and former Professor of History. He holds an MA in World History with a particular interest in cross-cultural mart and world history. He is a co-founder ofWarmed-overHistory Encyclopedia and its Communications Director. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here Help us write increasingly We're a small non-profit organisation run by a handful of volunteers. Each vendible financing us well-nigh $50 in history books as source material, plus editing and server costs. You can help us create plane increasingly self-ruling wares for as little as $5 per month, and we'll requite you an ad-free wits to thank you! Become a Member Recommended Books Sorry, we haven't been worldly-wise to find any books on the subject.   Bibliography Wupatki National Monument Wupatki National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Adler, M. A. The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150-1350. (University of Arizona Press, 2000). Downum, C. E., "Evidence of a Clovis Presence at Wupatki National Monument," Kiva Vol. 58, No. 4 (1993): 487-494. Eaton, W. M. Odyssey of the Pueblo Indians. (Turner, 2002). Gary, K. Hopi Stories of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Magic. (University of Nebraska Press, 2006). Lamb, S. Wupatki National Monument. (Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1995). Lekson, S. H. The Chaco Meridian. (AltaMira Press, 1999). Olsen, B. Sacred Places North America. (CCC Publishing, 2008). Elson, M. D., Ort, M. H. and Anderson, K. C. "sunset Crater and little springs Volcano Eruptions Disaster Management in the Eleventh-Century AD Southwest." Exploring Cause and Explanation, (edited by Ramenofsky, A. F. and Herhahn, C.). (University Press of Colorado, 2016), 47-72. Snow, D. R. Archaeology of Native North America. (Routledge, 2009). Tybony, S. A Guide to Sunset Crater and Wupatki. (Western Natl Parks Assoc, 1987). United States National Park Service. Wupatki National Monument (N.M.), General Management Plan: Environmental Impact Statement. (2001) Wilcox, David R. and Phil C. Wiegand, J. Scott Wood and Jerry B. Howard, "Ancient Cultural Interplay of the American Southwest in the Mexican Northwest," Journal of the Southwest Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer, 2008): 103-206. Cite This Work APA Style Wiener, J. B. (2018, September 24). Wupatki.Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/Wupatki/ Chicago Style Wiener, James B. "Wupatki."Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia. Last modified September 24, 2018. https://www.ancient.eu/Wupatki/. MLA Style Wiener, James B. "Wupatki."Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia.Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia, 24 Sep 2018. Web. 01 Oct 2018. License Written by James Blake Wiener, published on 24 September 2018 under the pursuit license: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the tragedian and license their new creations under the identical terms. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here Add Event Timeline Visual Timeline c. 1064 CE - c. 1065 CE Eruption of the Sunset Crater Volcano. c. 1100 CE - c. 1200 CE Wupatki Pueblo and other buildings are synthetic at the site of Wupatki National Monument. . c. 1250 CE - c. 1300 CE Wupatki Pueblo and its other buildings are abandoned. . Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter and learn increasingly well-nigh history once a week. Subscribe Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here Timeless Travels We publish the digital edition of Timeless Travels, the unique magazine for lovers of history, culture, and travel.   Recommended By Numerous educational institutions recommend us, including Oxford University, Michigan State University, and University of Minnesota. 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