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| This view of the Wupatki Pueblo ruins is from near the Visitor Center. People have utilized the region along the Little Colorado River for 2,000 years and perhaps longer. However, the largest populations are assumed to have been associated with the numerous pueblos and citadels of the Sinagua/Anasazi culture that flourished between about 1100 and 1250 AD. Oral history of the Hopi, Zuni, and other modern pueblo cultures of the Southwest support a cultural link to these ancient peoples that built stone-masonry dwellings along clifftops and in valleys throughout the region. At least 125 different forms of pottery found in the Wupatki area suggest that the people survived on trades as much as limited dryland agriculture the land would support. The Hopi people refer to the early pueblo dwellers as the Hisatsinom (People of long ago). The names "Anasazi," "Sinagua" and even "pueblo" are anglicized words that are not advocated by the native cultures of the Diné (Navajo) or the Hopi. |
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