Homolovi Ruins

Every time I said Homolovi while we were planning our trip, my pronunciation was short O, long O, short O, short I (e). I would imagine we were in the movie The Mummy and would be in Egypt. Wrong place , the correct Hopi pdonunciation is Hoe Mole' ve, with emphasis on second syllable. Much more Native American.

The ruins are exatly that -ruins. They have excatated 4 different sites, I-IV, but only I & II are open to the public, and only II, has much to see. They are on State Trust Land, and were pretty much decimated by people looking for artifacts before the Park system got involved or there was any offical archeology performed. The ruins at II include a stabilized 5 room dwelling, a kiva and what would have been an underground common room. The rest of what would have been an 1100 room community that may have housed about 1200 people lies in rubble clustered around circular "artifact search" holes.  Some of the pieces of pottery recovered by the archeologists is on display in the park's visitor center.II is ADA accessible by a 1/2 mile paved trail (walk one of the day)  

The ruins at I afe barely visible and ne,t to the Little Colorado River. Interesting fact, even when that river bed seems dry, there is water 3 feet down. One of the reasons the ancestral Hopi people probably came down from Second Mesa to this area, both to live for generations amd then once they left, to return periodically.

We are on our way nofth from Flagstaff snd I want to post while I can so will stip now. May be awhile before I can post agian since have no idea of.connectivity in Grand Canyon.  Later..