Pasiwvi

Pasiwvi is the Hopi name of Elden Pueblo, a prehistoric village at the foot of Mount Elden near Flagstaff, Arizona. The Sinagua settled it from about 1070 to 1275. An estimated 200 to 300 people lived there in 60 to 70 rooms of compacted stone. Shell jewellery from the California coast and macaw skeletons from Mexico have been found on the site, showing that its people were part of a wide trading system.

The eruption of Sunset Crater, between about 1040 and 1100, blanketed the land with volcanic ash, which improved the soil's ability to hold water. Within the following century some 2,000 people moved into the area around Wupatki, a multistorey pueblo of more than one hundred rooms whose Hopi name means "long cut house". The Kayenta, Cohonina and Sinagua built the settlements of this country.