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Palatki
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Palatki Heritage Site, Palatki meaning 'red house' in the Hopi language, is located in the Coconino National Forest in Sedona, Arizona (approximately 34 55' 3.58"N, 111 53' 58.85"W), and is built within the formidable red rock cliffs, with a set of ruins belonging to the Sinagua, who are connected to the Hopi Indian Tribe. The ruins show the Sinagua people planted crops, made pottery, lived in pueblos, and were built to take advantage of south-facing overhangs in the rock for shelter.[1] The Sinagua created the ruins from 1100 to 1400, but there are pictographs and petroglyphs that are much older. The ancestors of Native Americans lived in the area from around 1150 to 1300 CE. Some of the petroglyphs are estimated to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old and came from the more Archaic period in the Americas. Palatki and its sister site, Honanki, were the largest cliff dwellings of the Red Rock country between 1150 A.D. and 1300 A.D. Many of the pictographs on the rock walls are from the Sinagua, however, some of the more abstract symbols and drawings are from Archaic cultures, which date back 3000–6000 years ago[1] Palatki, and Honanki, the sister site, were the largest cliff dwellings of Red Rock County between A.D. 1150-1300.[2]
