Palatki Heritage Site

The Sinagua built here between 1150 and 1350 AD, and what they left — cliff dwellings and pictographs from every native culture to occupy the Verde Valley — still stands in Coconino National Forest near Sedona. 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 meaning "red house."