What Are Chaco Canyon Buildings

Restated Thesis: even with all the new found evidence which shows the Chupacabra to be just a myth, some will continue not to believe what science has proven.

First, the article states that one theory holds that the Chaco structure were purely residential. However, the professor refutes this point by saying that the building from the outside looks like American apartments, but from inside, we will cast a dout about that because of a lot of people used to live in it, there should be enough fire places. He said on of the largest houses were enough for a hundred families, but there were just fireplaces sufficient for ten families, so it could not use for

The listening passage casts doubt on reading passage about how the Chaco Canyon building in new mexico used. In the reading passage some usages of this place presenting including utilizing as home for about hundereds of people, storing of food supplies, or the ceremonial center. The listening passage opposites these opionions by presenting some evidencs for each options. For first option, Although the outside of the house likes apartment building, the house can not utilizes as residential place because it must has a lot of fire places for inhabitants. Meanwhile, it has about 10 fire places that are not located in every room. For second option, the structure can not uses for storing because it is possible that spoil supplies-grain maze- in it.

Each family had its own lot and some having up to four houses in addition some having two-story structure. Every house had its own purpose to a family for example; one house would hold food storage for winter other houses would be used for entertainment.

The Chachi are an indigenous group living in Ecuador’s Mache-Chindul reserve. Maria Fadiman did a study on Cultivated Food Plants: Culture and Gendered Spaces of The Colonists and the Chachi in Ecuador, Fadiman basically compared the colonists of Ecuador and the indigenous Chachi based on the how, what, and who cultivated foods in both societies. The Chachi appear to be an agricultural society, they tend to domesticate their animals and have farms close or distant from home. Fadiman found that in colonist societies the woman focused on staying and working near the home, while the men went on to work farther away. Although in the Chachi it is the complete opposite, were the men stay near the home and the women go the furthest away (Fadiman

There has been many evidences and study about the culture interaction between the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. The phases of growth and decline that Chaco Canyon shares with many other regional centers is called the Chaco’s developmental cycle (Nelson 2006). There are many artifacts or objects that show either the direct or indirect interactions between Chaco Canyon and Mesoamerica; also why people might have chosen to adopt the culture. Every objects have different kinds of interaction and effect on social, political, and religious change. There are five objects currently considered as evidences of interaction: colonnades, roads, copper bells, shell bracelets, and unusual ceramic vessels.

The reading passage provides three theories explaining how great houses in Chaco Canyon were used. However, all three theories were questioned by the following lecture.

The main topic of both the reading and the lecture is about the origin of the massive stone buildings named "great houses" in New Mexico. The reading proposes three theories about the function of those houses; the lecture, however, refutes all these hypotheses, citing three reasons to rejects what is mentioned in the passage.

The houses in the city had to be long and narrow so they could fit into the narrow streets of the city. But the farmers had houses that were adapted to their conditions. Some farmers had rooms in their houses to store animals. The more wealthy peoples houses were typically built in the centre of a large garden and the house was symmetrical. The long hallways connect the rooms. This showed their skills in design and planning.

As stated these houses were only accessible to the few families that had the means to afford them. While they were advertised as the “working man’s reward”, few would ever be able to leave their tenements and occupy these houses.

Common people lived in simple houses, which were made from adobe, clay, and water. Adobe are bricks made from dried clay and water. They had floors made of straw and roofs made of dirt. Almost every house had only one main room, which was used for everyday indoor activities, like cooking, eating, and sleeping. Every house had another building for steam bathing. The building would have a fireplace which would heat the walls. Water would be poured on the hot wall to make steam. The Aztec people thought that this heat was good for the family's health.

What I found in the video, Cosmology and Belief, that I really have not thought about is there is a reason to the site planning and the architecture built on the location. An example of this, is El Castillo by the Mayans, which shows their self conscious attempt to depict ideas such as belief system, cosmology, and how the world is structured. El Castillo is a man-made mountain, the interesting meaning about the mountain is it stand for an access to the heavens. The location of this source is near the sinkhole, Sacred Cenote that is represent as the portal to the underworld.

In our readings “from Indians to Chicanos” and preview of Chaco Canyon” civilization is influenced by past evolve characteristics helping create our society as it is today. Throughout my paper, I will point out some key factors that have become important in the way we live. Internal migration had created more sustainable soil, post-colonial movements and gain territory sectors. Many indigenous people had channeled down streams, valleys in search of food and water (Diego 17), clothing to keep them tender. Cave dwellings became a permanent shelter, climates were warmer and dryer among the masses. Gathering of plants and hunting for food was a potent sign of endurance. Sources of the plants they had grown created more food resources such as beans, corn and squash was considered wealthy.

The common house was quite large during the later years, estimated to be about 20 by 15 feet. Each house offered ample shelter during harsh conditions but was foregone most of the time in favor of outdoor life. Every house had all the fixtures necessary for life, such as kitchens and drying racks. Each house most likely held a few generations of a family at once, so it was most likely that on most nights, inhabitants avoided the stuffy and warm huts in favor of moonlight sleeping conditions (Nash and Gates 1962).

The Mexican tile roofs jump out at your eyes, until the gorgeous iron gates of other estates snatch your attention. I can at times be overwhelmed with the feast before my eyes. My favorite structure by far is the towering ruins of the old sugar plantation. The words ruins, sugar, and plantation alone are enough to conjure up the most fascinating stories within ones imagination. I can see the bones of an age past; still standing before me to mourn, and dream about. I live in a grouping of villas where a restaurant and pool facilities are being constructed. I smell fresh sawn mahogany as the carpenters make bars, counters, and doors. I hear stone masons chipping at tiles, and the scraping sounds as they pull out the mortar to lay them.