08/10/2020
Kultura Anasazi..., owiana tajemnicą i niedowierzaniem, że w tak niegościnnych warunkach Pustyni, mogą powstać takie cuda architektury...
W tym regionie Południowego-Zachodu popularne również Puebla z bloków (cegieł) adobe wypalanych na słońcu.
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For 1,000 years, from about A.D. 500 until their dispersal around 1500, the Anasazi, lived in dwellings built in the canyons and high mesas of the Four Corners region (where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet). Claimed as ancestors to today's pueblo peoples, they built dwellings out of first adobe, then later stone.
Many of today's pueblo people still live on their traditional lands, and their traditions and culture are very strongly held. Among the Acoma, Laguna, Santa Ana, Zia, Cochiti, Kewa, San Felipe, Jemez Pueblo, Ohkay Owingeh, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Tesuque, Nambé, Pojoaque, Taos, Picuris, Sandia, Isleta, Hopi, and Zuni nations. There are cultural differences among the pueblos, but the differences are fewer than the similarities.
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. 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. The whole structure, which can contain dozens of units, was often home for an entire extended clan. The roof logs frequently extend from a building, providing a place to hang things from. If this were not enough, additional hangers would sometimes be inserted in the walls at convenient places. The Acoma have continuously occupied the area for over 2000 years, making this one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States (along with Taos and Hopi pueblos).