Sinagua People

Montezuma castle, cliff house

The Sinagua people lived in the Verde Valley in Arizona. They lived there around 500-1425 A.D. We visited two place where they lived. One place was in a cliff next to a river. They built houses into the cliff because the river flooded and it was safe from the water. They could keep an eye over the fields from the top of their houses in the cliff.

The Sinaguas were farmers and hunters. They hunted deer, antelope, rabbit, muskrats and duck.They grew corn, squash and cotton.

We also went to the petroglyphs. It was a bunch of carvings on a rock wall. The carvings represented spirits and shamans and gods. There were a bunch of sun symbols. The art was basic but cool looking.

No one knows exactly where the Sinagua people went. The Hopi are the only living people that are related to the Sinagua people.

Petroglyph wall

Sun symbol

Arizona sycamore