Hopi Students To Experience Tutuveni and Tribal History in 3D
Hopi high school students will get to see Tutuveni or “newspaper
rock”—a petroglyph site on Navajo Nation land that is sacred to
the Hopi—in three dimensions from their classroom tomorrow. On
June 22, Wesley Bernardini, archaeologist and associate
professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at the
University of Redlands, will demonstrate 3D educational modules
he developed in collaboration with The Redlands Institute. The
“video game-like presentation that is being introduced as a way
to pass Hopi tradition and experience of the pre-contact Arizona
landscape to high school students,” states a press release
announcing the demonstration. “The digitally-rendered landscapes
allow students to virtually fly through space and time between
villages and prominent landforms through line-of-sight analyses
that help visualize the migration pathways that brought clans to
the Hopi mesas from 1200 A.D. to present times.” The
demonstration will take place i