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1. WUP_030531_022.JPG: The structure in front is called Nalakihu, Hopi for "House Outside the Village". They found roof beams with ring dates in the late 1100's. From studying the structure, they've determined that it wasn't all built at once but had rooms added to it over time. They also determined that it was at one point two stories high. The structure beyond it is called The Citadel. With primitive mortar and local stones, the Indians built walls straight up along the edge of a border. No one really knows why it was built up so high since it was harder to get to. They're not sure if it was for defensive reasons, or else to avoid building on farmland, or else they just liked the breeze or something. Both the Citadel and the Nalakihu date from the late 1100's. By 1250, the families that lived here had abandoned them. There may have been an extended drought which pushed them out as was the case in other villages in the area.
2. WUP_030531_037.JPG: The Citadel. Consider how difficult it was to build this where it was.
3. WUP_030531_066.JPG: These two were on a father-daughter camping trip across country. They were having a blast.
4. WUP_030531_107.JPG: This is a ballcourt. As the sign says, "Ballcourts were common in southern Arizona from AD 750 to 1200, but relatively rare here in the northern part of the state. This suggests that the people of Wupatki intermingled with their southern Arizona neighbors -- the Hohokam -- who may have borrowed and modified the ballcourt idea from earlier contact with the Indian cultures of Mexico. There is continued speculation about the uses of the ballcourts. Because of the work involved in building a ballcourt and the numbers that have been found (over 200 in Arizona), ball games may have been an important part of life for the people of Wupatki and their southern neighbors. The Wupatki ballcourt is 78 feet wide, 102 feet long, and had a 6-foot-high wall. Excavated and stabilized in 1965, a large part of the interior wall has been reconstructed."
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Wikipedia Description: Wupatki National Monument
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Wupatki National Monument is a National Monument located in north-central Arizona, near Flagstaff. Rich in American Indian ruins, the Monument is administered by the National Park Service in close conjunction with the nearby Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. Wupatki was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.

The many settlement sites scattered throughout the monument were built by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples, more specifically the Sinagua, Cohonina, and Kayenta Anasazi. A major population influx began soon after the eruption of Sunset Crater in the 11th century, which blanketed the area with volcanic ash; this improved agricultural productivity and the soil's ability to retain water. Based on a careful survey of archaeological sites conducted in the 1980s, an estimated 2000 immigrants moved into the area during the century following the eruption. Agriculture was based mainly on corn and squash raised from the arid land without irrigation.

The dwellings, the walls of many of which still stand, were constructed from flat red stones held together with mortar. Each settlement was constructed as a single building, sometimes with scores of rooms. The largest settlement on monument territory is the Wupatki Ruin, "Big House" in the Hopi language, built around a natural rock outcropping. This ruin is believed to be the area's tallest and largest structure for its time period. The monument also contain ruins identified as a ball court, similar to the courts found in Meso-America and in the Hohokam ruins of southern Arizona. This is the northernmost example of this kind of structure. This site also contains a geological blowhole. Other major sites are Wukoki and The Citadel.

Wupatki is called Anaas�z� Bikin in Navajo) which translates as Houses of the Enemies.
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