Album 2016-7 from Jonathan Cohen

Cliff Dwellings – Montezuma Castle National Monument, Coconino National Forest, Camp Verde, Arizona

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Tue, 16 May 2017 01:28:12 +0000

Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a set of well-preserved ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings near the town of Camp Verde, Arizona, United States. The dwellings were built and used by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States, between approximately 1100 and 1425 CE. The main structure comprises five stories and twenty rooms, and was built over the course of three centuries.

Neither part of the monument’s name is correct. When European-Americans first observed the ruins in the 1860s, by then long-abandoned, they named them for the famous Aztec emperor Montezuma in the mistaken belief that he had been connected to their construction. In fact, the dwelling was abandoned more than 40 years before Montezuma was born, and was not a "castle" in the traditional sense, but instead functioned more like a "prehistoric high rise apartment complex." Several modern-day Hopi clans and Yavapai communities trace their ancestries to early immigrants from the Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members periodically return to these ancestral homes for religious ceremonies.

Upreach – Montezuma Castle National Monument, Coconino National Forest, Camp Verde, Arizona

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Thu, 25 May 2017 20:35:14 +0000

Album 2016-7 from Jonathan Cohen

Cliff Dwellings – Montezuma Castle National Monument, Coconino National Forest, Camp Verde, Arizona

Upreach – Montezuma Castle National Monument, Coconino National Forest, Camp Verde, Arizona

Caving In – Montezuma Castle National Monument, Coconino National Forest, Camp Verde, Arizona

Red Rocks With a Dusting of Snow – Sedona, Arizona

Red Rocks Come in Bunches – Sedona, Arizona

Upper Town – Sedona, Arizona

The Butterfly Girl – Sedona, Arizona

Dragonfly Statue – Sedona, Arizona

Courthouse Butte – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

Bell Rock – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

Bell Rock Up Close – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

The Mund Wilderness – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

Just Bluffing – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

On the Trail – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

A Study in Ochre – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

The Layered Look – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

Fire Wood – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

Prickles – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

Pinnacles – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona

Rock Chimneys – Courthouse Butte Trail, Sedona, Arizona