Explore the Rock Art left in the Sedona-Verde Valley by the Sinagua

By the Arizona Archaeologial Society/Verde Valley Chapter & Kenneth J. Zoll. The Sedona/Verde Valley area has one of the richest and most diverse collections of Native American rock art in the American Southwest. Images can be found from the archaic period to later images of the Sinagua, Yavapai, Apache and occasional Hopi and Navajo.

Seasonal calendars were a foundation of early cultures to identify the time for hunting and gathering, planting and harvesting, worshiping and celebrating.  Solar seasonal calendars have been identified at Ancestral Puebloan sites in Arizona and New Mexico, at Hohokam sites in the Phoenix region, and at Northern Sinagua locations near Flagstaff, Arizona.  While there have been anecdotal reporting of rock art with solar significance within Southern Sinagua areas, none had been documented until recently.  This site describes the solar markings near Sedona, Arizona.  The Southern Sinagua created these rock art sites sometime between A.D. 900 and 1400.

UNDERSTANDING THE ROCK ART OF SEDONA explores what rock art , cupules and petroglyphs are,Color photos capture the exciting rock art available for viewing in the Sedona area.

Kenneth J. Zoll is the President of the Verde Valley Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society. He is also a volunteer docent at the U.S. Forest Service heritage sites, as well as a site steward with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office. An avocational archaeoastronomer, he is also the author of SINAGUA SUNWATCHERS.

Softcover; 51 pages; full-color artwork