WUPATKI PUEBLO: A STUDY IN CULTURAL FUSION AND ...

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one group. The Sinagua, and Wupatki s areas were characterized
by mass Immigrations and frequent inter-cultural contacts. No
new single cultural synthesis was developed among the Sinagua.
The introduction or diffusion of traits by Hohokam and Chaco
peoples, especially those traits of ultimately Mesoamerlcan
origin, appears to have shifted pre-emptive Sinagua culture
toward a more highly integrated and centrally controlled pat­
tern, probably of the modern Pueblo type. Between 1200-1350
the entire Sinagua area was abandoned, and several Sinagua
clans may have moved into the Hopi Mesa area. It is at this
time that the Hopi cultural pattern clearly changed, probably
because of the introduction of southern political and religious
traits which appear to have integrated with early northern
Pueblo traits to form the pattern defined by Reed as Western
Pueblo. Thus, while there was not a uniform cultural pattern
in the Sinagua area in 1070-1350» there was a new cultural
synthesis of Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mesoamerlcan cultural traits
in the Hopi Mesa area after 1300. This pattern continues to
this day. The people of the Hopi mesas are probably partially
descended from peoples of the Sinagua area.