Palatki Ruins
Here is a quote from the literature we picked up at the ranger office. After his expedition to Arizona in 1895, archaeologist Jesse Walter Fewkes reported:
“The country between the Verde valley, north of Oak creek, and Flagstaff, Arizona is wild and mountainous...From its highest point the traveler can see stretching far to the west an area seldom designated on maps, but locally known, from the color of its cliffs, as the Red Rock country. Into that unexplored region permit me to be your guide on an archaeological reconnaissance, for although now uninhabited it was once the site of a considerable population which has left ruins of uncommon size in its rugged canyons...The first ruin of which I will speak is Palatki...”
Palatki is one of the largest Sinagua Indian Villages in the Sedona red rock area.(sin-Spanish for “without” and agua-Spanish for “water”)
These are all reduced versions of the pictures we took as we hiked up to, around, and down from the ruins. Click on any picture to see a larger version and details about the shot.
