Architecture: Plateau
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- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Architecture, Social Science, Geography
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: United States
Article abstract: Plateau architecture was characterized by circular pit houses
The principal structures within the Plateau culture area were sleeping dwellings, the ubiquitous sweatlodge, isolated menstrual huts, excavated food storage pits, food-drying scaffolds and racks, and temporary lean-to shelters. Though architecture type varied through time and spatial distribution, there were essentially two types of winter dwelling: the circular semi-subterranean pit house and the inverted-V rectangular tule mat lodge. The older pit house was an excavated, flat,...
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