ARIZONA
Landscapes and cultural sites in the Grand Canyon state.
The Kinishba ruins are on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Northern Arizona. It is the remains of a village built and occupied by the ancestors of today’s Zuni and Hopi Pueblo tribes. Nearby pit houses indicate settlement was here as early as 800 AD. Pottery found there suggest occupation by Pueblo people into the 1400’s. Around 1325 AD, when Kinishba reached its maximum size of about 600 ground-floor rooms (400-800 occupants), the village was made up of four main blocks of rooms. Each block likely sheltered a distinctive cluster of related clans. There is no material evidence of ancient Apache occupation but oral tradition indicate Apache history in the region extending into time immemorial.
Read MoreThe Kinishba ruins are on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Northern Arizona. It is the remains of a village built and occupied by the ancestors of today’s Zuni and Hopi Pueblo tribes. Nearby pit houses indicate settlement was here as early as 800 AD. Pottery found there suggest occupation by Pueblo people into the 1400’s. Around 1325 AD, when Kinishba reached its maximum size of about 600 ground-floor rooms (400-800 occupants), the village was made up of four main blocks of rooms. Each block likely sheltered a distinctive cluster of related clans. There is no material evidence of ancient Apache occupation but oral tradition indicate Apache history in the region extending into time immemorial.
