From the Archives - Arizona, 2012
Hopi Indian Pottery Shards
From 1290 to 1400 A.D. one of the largest Hopi Indian settlements was on this land. It consisted of two settlements of 4-5 villages. The two settlements were approximately 5 kilometers apart and had as many as 1100 and 1200 rooms respectively. It makes you wonder how such a desolate land could support so many people but back then it probably looked a whole lot different than it does now.
So sad that those old cultures often disappear by whatever reasons. Maybe in a couple of hundred or thousand years people are seaching in our stuffs we have left.....
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this culture was caught up in the drying of the environment that is thought to have caused issues for other communities in what is now Arizona?
ReplyDeleteCheers - Stewart M - Melbourne
was it a look, touch, but don't take scenario?
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed that you can still find so many shards!
ReplyDeleteWhere these shards from some kind of exhibition or did you find it yourself?
ReplyDeleteI liked the one with the bird track.
ReplyDeleteI think there was a lot more water for one thing, not nearly as desolate as it is now. I love Native American history!
ReplyDeleteI agree with EG. I am surprised that you can still find these. Pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking shards.
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