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Mileage: Mount Carmel Jct.
Tuweep 90 miles
South Canyon 75 miles
North Rim 85 miles
Zion Park 12 miles
Bryce Canyon 60 miles
Grand Staircase 9 miles
Cedar Breaks 45 miles
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Grand
Canyon North Rim Road Map
Directions to North Rim Grand Canyon: From Zion National Park,
take on U-9 through the park to Mt. Carmel Jct. Turn south on US-89 to Kanab.
There is only one stop light in Kanab; this is where US-89 changes to ALT 89.
Fredonia, Arizona is 6 miles. In Fredona take 89A to Jacob lake (36 miles), then
take AZ 67 to the Grand Canyon North Rim park entrance.
Winter Road Conditions and
Highway 67 Road Closures
Some ranger talks are held at the Walhalla Overlook. The program
includes a tour of an excavated ancestral Puebloans site. The nearby Cliff Springs
Trail leads to an ancient granary, which is a great addition to this talk and
tour.
The Hopi
Modern Puebloan descendants of the Anasazi, including the Hopi have asked
that the term Ancestral Puebloan be used instead of Anasazi. Anasazi in Navajo
means "enemy ancestor" or "ancient people who are not us."
Other people who lived in the Grand Canyon
Cerbat Indians lived in the Grand Canyon after the Ancestral Puebloans and
Cohonino left. The Paiute Indians arrived with the Cerbat, and lived along the
North Rim. The Navajo were the last to arrive at the canyon and they lived in
the area for 400 years. The next to live in the Grand Canyon area was the Freemont
culture and until recently (100 years ago) there were the Southern Paiutes. Mormon
settlers arrived in the Grand Canyon in the 1870s.
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Grand Canyon History
A Paleo-Indian 8,000 B. C. (10,000 years ago)
A woman who wandered off a trail at the Grand Canyon to find a private place
to relieve herself, made a discovery that tells us that people were in the Grand
Canyon 10,000 years ago. This one artifact that the woman stumbled onto was a
portion of a projective point. Scientists call the people that made the point
the Paleo-Indians. They were the first known humans to settle in the Grand Canyon
region. Over time this culture evolved into the Archaic culture. Technology:
Projective points. Food: Large game of the time.
The Archaic Culture - (Basketmaker I)
6500 B.C. - 1 A.D.
These people dominated the area for over 6,000 years living among and hunting
the megafauna of the time. These animals included the bison, mammoths, the stag
moose, mastodons, giant beavers and huge ground sloths. People of this era made
split twig animal effigies from willow twigs and cottonwood. So many split twig
figurines have been found (first in 1932) that they are no longer collected.
The animal shaped figures have been dated to be 4,000 years old. They were preserved
in the red wall limestone caves of the Grand Canyon. Arrowheads made by the Archaic
cultures have been found on the rim as well as the inner canyon. Technology:
Projective points, short distance spear. Food: The people moved around often
to follow the megafauna that they hunted.
2500 - 3000 B.C
Technology: Cave sites, burial, rock art. Food: The first corn and squash were
grown.
The Ancestral Puebloans or
Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi)
More than 2,000 Ancestral Puebloan ruins have been found at the Grand Canyon.
There is evidence that the Cohonino Indians lived downstream about the same time
as the Ancestral Puebloans. Pictographs were also left behind, helping to put
the pieces of the puzzle together to tell a whole story of the people that lived
in the Grand Canyon long ago. This was a hunter - gather culture.
The Basketmaker II - 1 A.D. to 500 A.D.
The Ancestral Puebloans evolved and became more capable. Technology: During
this era they became efficient at making detailed baskets and sandals from yucca
leaves and they made pit house dwellings that were recessed into the ground.
The atlatl dart was the weapon of the time. It was a wooden foreshaft with a
folsom point. The spear was projected at high velocity giving a greater range
than a thrown spear could. The point was hafted to the foreshaft with twine made
of animal sinew. Food: The bones of earlier basketmakers showed they lacked protein
in their diets. It is thought their main food source was corn and squash, but
they did hunt and gather also.
The Basketmakers evolved
500 A. D. to 900 A.D.
Technology: The Basketmakers developed the bow and arrow. Food: Solving the
problem of a lack of protein in their diets, this later group of Basketmakers
grew and consumed beans, a complete protein. The people began to live in established
villages. Homes were pit houses or slab houses. The bow & arrow was used
for hunting. Rock art has been found dating to this time period. The first flute
player art was found. Towards the end of the period kivas were built, pottery
began to replace baskets, cotton was used for cloth, large pueblos were built
and the cradleboard was used for babies. The Pottery became more advanced toward
the end of this period.
The Pueblo Period - 900 A.D. - 1300 A.D.
As the people evolved, we call this culture the Pueblos. This culture lived
in the Grand Canyon for at least 100 years before they migrated away from the
area. They still lived in kivas, now homes above ground and there were villages.
Technology: These people made decorated pottery that they used for carrying and
storing water and as a safe storage for food and seeds. Food: They were farmers
as well as hunters.
More than one-hundred farm sites of the Ancestral Puebloan were found at
Walhalla Glades at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. There were over 2,000 sites
left behind at the Grand Canyon that have been studied to date. It is thought
that the people came to the North Rim to farm and then returned back down into
the canyon for the winter. Unkar Delta, an area along the water, seen from the
Walhalla Point, seems to be the place where they lived. A granary, where they
stored food can be seen on the short, Cliff Spring Trail, at the North Rim. These
people lived in Kivas, homes that were entered from the top. The remains of a
Kiva is found at Walhalla Overlook at the North Rim.
What happened to the Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)?
Tens of thousands left their homes and moved to the Hopi mesas in northeastern
Arizona and other locations in the Southwest. Why they left is a mystery. The
thought, at one time, was that a drought caused them to leave. This theory is
now questioned. The change in their dwellings to cliff dwellings appears to demonstrate
the increased need for defense. Perhaps wars began. Perhaps the tension arose
from the drought that last for so many years.
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