Palatki Heritage Site

The Sinagua built here between 1150 and 1350 AD, and the cliff dwellings they left in Red Rock Country near Sedona are among the largest from that period. Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes, a Smithsonian archaeologist, was the first non-indigenous person to document the site — in 1895 and 1911 — and gave it the Hopi name Palatki, meaning "red house." The pictographs in the alcoves represent every native culture that occupied the Verde Valley.