Clues in Architecture

Clues in Architecture. . Although they shared similar lifestyles and cultures, the people living here held some traditions that differed from their Puebloan neighbors to the north., In this room, excavators discovered a partial wall underneath the floor - people had built a new room on top of an older one. Look for the remnant near the front wall. Note also the use of large boulders for the foundation of walls and the large load-bearing wall at the back, which likely supported another story., Most rooms here had two large posts in the center of the room to support one or two roof beams, dividing the roof in half or thirds. Random, unshaped rocks formed two outside walls filled with a thick dirt and rubble core, all held together with large amounts of mud mortar., These are distinctive construction methods - to the north, people used horizontal rock courses and constructed their roofs by running multiple beams from wall to wall without any support posts., Captions , The excavation of Tuzigoot revealed clues about how the prehistoric builders constructed and used the pueblo. Massively thick walls, built on large foundation rocks, tapered as they rose. The presence of very few doorways indicated that entry to most rooms was by way of ladders through rooftop hatches.