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Rock ArtSite Name: Tutuveni Alternative Name: Newspaper RockCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 22.386 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Tuba City, AZ
Latitude: 36.120000N Longitude: 111.47W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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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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