sinagua: Untouched Cliff Dwelling Ruins in West Sedona's Long Canyon -
- 11/09/17 11:10 AM
West Sedona's Long Canyon Cliff Dwelling Ruins Aerial View As you can see by the first picture, these ruins would be easy to miss. Very few people other than aerial tours have seen these ruins. The aerial view above has been enlarged to see the entire ruins. Sedona - Surrounded By Native American Ruins The history of the Native Americans who left their mark on Sedona and the Verde Valley, goes deep into pre-history and most of the historical accounting leaves a lot to conjecture. The Ancient People
The Anasazi and Sinagua people were nomadic and inhabited the entire region. We know that because there is evidence all around us. … (18 comments)
sinagua: See How Our Arizona Native Americans Made a "Solar Calendar".
- 06/28/14 11:59 PM
I have heard a lot about the V-Bar-V Heritage Site. The Summer Solstice was upon us, so this was an opportunity to see this site and how the sunlight affected the shadows on the petroglyphs. The Heritage Site isn't far off the I-17 about 2 hours north of Phoenix. You take the same exit you would to go to Sedona from Phoenix. The only difference is that you go right rather than left. Go to this site and enlarge the google map to get a better map.
This picture diagrams some of the petroglyphs and rocks that were strategically placed … (0 comments)
Page Springs got it's name from the Page family, who were early settlers in the area. But the name Cornville has a more colorful folklore attached to it. Nobody can say with any degree of certainty how Cornville got it's name. One yarn is that there was a family named Cohn and the post office was to be named after them. When the paperwork came back from Washington DC, they had misread it and named it "Cornville". The problem with that story is that there was no one documented in the 1880 census that had that name. The closest … (0 comments)
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