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The Hieroglyphic Mountains are a mountain range located in central Arizona. The Hieroglyphics roughly straddle the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties and form an effective physical barrier northwest of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Due to their proximity to Phoenix and its environs, the mountains offer a number of outdoor ...
Tutuveni is a prehistoric petroglyph site at the base of Echo Cliffs in Coconino County, Arizona. The Hopi, who have historic interest in this site, refer to it as "Tutuveni" meaning "Newspaper Rock". [1] The site was used by young Hopi men during their ceremonial pilgrimages to Ongtupqa (the Grand Canyon) to mark their passage into adulthood. [2]
Historical Atlas of Arizona (2nd ed.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Webb, Robert H., et al. Requiem for the Santa Cruz: an environmental history of an Arizona river (University of Arizona Press, 2014) online. Wilson, James A. "The Arizona Cattle Industry: Its Political and Public Image 1950–1963." Arizona and the West (1966): 339–348.
The Tucson artifacts, sometimes called the Tucson Lead Crosses, Tucson Crosses, Silverbell Road artifacts, or Silverbell artifacts, were thirty-one lead objects that Charles E. Manier and his family found in 1924 near Picture Rocks, Arizona, that were initially thought by some to be created by early Mediterranean civilizations that had crossed the Atlantic in the first century, but were later ...
Sinagua petroglyphs at the V Bar V Heritage Site. The Sinagua were a pre-Columbian culture that occupied a large area in central Arizona from the Little Colorado River, near Flagstaff, to the Verde River, near Sedona, including the Verde Valley, area around San Francisco Mountain, and significant portions of the Mogollon Rim country, [1] [2] between approximately 500 and 1425 CE.
The hieroglyphic racerunner lizard can reach about 7 inches in length, researchers said. It has a tail “about twice as long as (its) body,” smooth scales and a “sand-colored” body.
1736 – Silver discovered on the ranch of the Basque settler, Bernardo de Urrea , near the Guevavi mission. The name of Urrea's ranch was Arizona, meaning "the good oak tree". [24] 1751 – The O'odham people rebel against the Spanish, but the rebellion is put down. [25]
Vietnam veteran's remains identified nearly 50 years after being found in Arizona. ... The skeletal remains, first discovered April 19, 1975, were found off Meteor City Road, about 40 miles east ...