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Rock ArtSite Name: Tutuveni Alternative Name: Newspaper Rock
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Tuba City, AZ
Latitude: 36.120000N  Longitude: 111.47W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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3 Ambience:
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2Not Good
1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Tutuveni submitted by bat400_photo : Boulder 17 at Tutuveni petroglyph site. Copyright CyArk (http://cyark.org) with Some Rights Reserved under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution - Non-Commerical - No Derivatives license. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Coconino County, Arizona.
The Tutuveni site contains over 5000 individual petroglyphs on a collection of 150 sandstone boulders set along the Moenkopi Wash. The site is an important stop on a Hopi pilgrimage route that ran from the Hopi heartland to Ongtuvqa, the Grand Canyon. The petroglyphs consist of Hopi clan symbols, and unlike other petroglyph sites where figures of different styles and time periods overlay each other, the symbols here have been applied in rows. This supports oral history and archaeological evidence of the continuity of Hopi ceremonialism and culture dating back to the migration of Anestral Puebloan people to the current pueblo cultures of northeast Arizona and northern New Mexico.

This is the largest known collection of clan symbols and is estimated to date back as far as 1200AD.

Tutuveni is the word used for "Newspaper" in Hopi. The site lies west of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, and within the neighboring Navajo Nation. Until 2006 the location was part of a boundary despute between the Hopi and Navajo nations. The Hopi have known the site has been plagued by modern grafitti in that last twenty years. A joint effort of public archaeologists, academics, and the World Monuments Fund have documented the site and eliminated vehicle access to both educate the public and help preseve the site from casual vandalism.

Wes Bernardini (University of Redlands) has studied Tutuveni for years. Collaborating with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, Bernardini and the office nominated Tutuveni for inclusion on the World Monuments Fund 2008 "watch list" of endangered sites. Funding from the WMF was added to monies provided by the Arizona Public Service electric utility company, secured by Navajo Nation archaeologists, to fence the site to confine access to visitors on foot, and monitor the location with cameras.

WMF funds allowed the archaeologists to work with CyArk to document the site with 3D LiDAR scanning technology and provide the documentation and additional educational materials through their website.

Tutuveni is open to the public. The location given for this site listing is only very roughly accurate and will be updated in the future.

Note: Tribal Archaeologists, Academics, and NGOs Perserve and Document Petroglyph Site in Three Dimensions.
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Re: Indian tribes join forces to save Arizona petroglyph site by LittleEnki on Friday, 03 February 2012
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It's a shame how we in the US dont take our historical sites with any pride, like the UK and others do. When we here in the US figure out that our past is as important as our future, we will stop acting like a bunch of soccer moms, and act on this topic. I for one am a firm believer that in the end, the Hopi will get their land back and then some!
They will just have to suffer through the bad times in their history, to get to that point.
It.s a beautiful site , and thank goodness it is now protected better!
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Indian tribes join forces to save Arizona petroglyph site by bat400 on Thursday, 02 February 2012
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The Hopi people call it Tutuveni (tu-TOO-veh-nee), meaning "newspaper rock," and from a distance this place is just a collection of sandstone boulders set on a deserted swath of rust-stained land, some 80 miles from the Grand Canyon and a four-hour drive north of Phoenix.

It is only when you step closer that you begin to understand what Tutuveni really is: a history of the Hopi Indian tribe carved into stone.

The site contains some 5,000 petroglyphs of Hopi clan symbols, the largest known collection of such symbols in the American Southwest. According to researchers with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, the many etchings on the boulders of Tutuveni date as far back as far back as A.D. 1200.

On the dark desert varnish of the boulders are rows of bear paws, corn stalks, spiders, coyotes, kachinas, clouds, cranes. Most are the markings of the Hopi clans, or family systems, which are usually named for animals or other natural objects. The Hopi made these engravings during ceremonial pilgrimages from their land to the Grand Canyon to mark the passage into adulthood for Hopi young men.

"They would stop at Tutuveni and camp there, and they would peck their clan symbols on those rocks to mark their participation in that pilgrimage. And they did this for four or five centuries at least," said Wes Bernardini, an archaeologist and professor (University of Redlands) who has been studying Tutuveni for years. "When people from the same clan would visit the site, they would put their symbols next to the previous symbol that somebody had left earlier. There's no other site that we know of like that, that shows these repeated visits.

It is also a place threatened by modern-day vandals who view Tutuveni not as the sacred site and archaeological treasure that it is, but rather a canvas for their own graffiti. The Hopi had long known that what they considered a religious place had become, instead, a gathering spot to drink beer and act out. There was talk over the years of erecting a fence or building berms to help keep out vehicle traffic.

But the question of how to protect Tutuveni was complicated by its location: The site actually sits on land owned by the Navajo Indians, the result of a decades-old dispute that saw these neighboring tribes fighting over land each considered its own. The conflict was finally resolved in 2006, but bitterness lingers still.

It might have been easy for Tutuveni to get caught up in all of that — and its needs overlooked — but for the small group of researchers, archeologists and preservationists from both tribes and beyond who came together in common cause: to save this important cultural resource.

Ron Maldonado, supervisory archaeologist for the Navajo Nation. "In my mind, it didn't matter who it belonged to. It needed to be protected, and that was it."
Maldonado talked with Jon Shumaker, a fellow archaeologist at electric utility Arizona Public Service, to see if the company might contribute some funding for fencing materials. APS came up with some $13,000.

Meanwhile Bernardini, in collaboration with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, nominated Tutuveni for inclusion on the World Monuments Fund 2008 "watch list" of endangered cultural sites around the world. The fund pitched in some $100,000 toward a protective fence and surveillance cameras, but also a laser-scanning project that captured many of the petroglyphs for an educational website that was launched this past December.

Today, a chain-link fence stretches around the rock site, with only a narrow opening to allow for visitors on foot. Hidden cameras capture the movement of people and animals. Some beer bottles still litter the ground, but far fewer than what once was found at Tutuveni.

For more, read PAULINE ARRILLAGA's Associated Press story as printed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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