History buffs and those with ties to the community of Continental can rest easy. The 105-year-old Continental Cemetery is up for sale, but thanks to a longstanding agreement it will
Sedona Red Rock News
Dr. James T. Watson, associate director of the Arizona State Museum, believes that funerary remains exposed
unintentionally by workers on a home-building project near
Red Rock Crossing were members of the Sinagua, a modern
name of the people who lived in the Verde Valley from roughly
A.D. 600 to 1450. The builders notified the Arizona State Museum in Tucson, per state law, about the location, where this photograph was taken and provided by an individual with permission to be on the proper ty, and the remains were reburied with oversight by a tribal representative.
Recently, workers on a home-building project outside of Sedona city limits near Red Rock Crossing unintentionally exposed funerary remains laid to rest centuries ago by some of the Verde Valley’s original inhabitants.