USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What they did have was dirt, rock, and straw and, with these materials, they made their adobe houses in communities called pueblos. Adobe is mud and straw mixed together and dried to make a strong brick-like material. Pueblo peoples stacked these bricks to make the walls of the house.

Detailed explanation-2: -Clay mixed with water and small pieces of plant material. In pueblos, adobe is usually used to plaster walls, roofs, and sometimes floors. When adobe dries, it forms a hard surface that helps keep the inside of the house warm and dry. These photographs show two chunks of adobe from ancient Pueblo houses.

Detailed explanation-3: -Adobe pueblos are Native American house complexes used by the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. The pueblos are modular, multi-story houses made of adobe or of large stones cemented together with adobe. Each adobe unit is home to one family, like a modern apartment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Also known as Pueblo-style homes, adobe-style houses are a type of home created by the Pueblo people. Constructed of natural, durable materials and featuring thick walls and flat, rounded roofs, adobe-style homes are ideal for dry and harsh climates like the Southwestern United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Pueblo Indians have lived in this fascinating complex of multistoried adobe homes and ceremonial structures since they were built in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.