USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Pueblo were cliff dwellers. They built homes of adobe brick on cliffs and on mesas in the southwest.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a typical pueblo building, adobe blocks form the walls of each room as well as a central courtyard; buildings can be up to five stories tall. Usually each floor is set back from the floor below, so that a given building resembles a stepped pyramid.