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| These paper pictures of pueblos were made by kindergarteners. They learned about how some indigenous people built their homes and why their homes were appropriate for the environment in which they lived. |
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| Above is a photograph taken of a Zuni pueblo in 1873, Below is a photograph of a Kiva and surrounding pueblos taken in Taos New Mexico in 1920. |
Pueblos are modern and ancient communities of Native Americans in
the Southwestern United States of America. The first Spanish explorers
of the Southwest used this term to describe the communities housed in
apartment-like structures built of stone, adobe
mud, and other local material. These structures were usually
multi-storeyed buildings surrounding an open plaza. They were occupied
by hundreds to thousands of Pueblo people.
The Pueblo people are a Native American people in the Southwestern United States. Their traditional economy is based on agriculture and trade. When first encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they were living in villages that the Spanish called pueblos, meaning "towns". Of the 21 Pueblos that exist today, Taos, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi are the best-known. The main Pueblos are located primarily in New Mexico and Arizona.
Adobe (pron.: /əˈdoʊbi/, UK /əˈdoʊb/; Arabic: الطوب) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, and/or manure), which the builders shape into bricks (using frames) and dry in the sun. Adobe buildings are similar to cob and mudbrick buildings. Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world. In hot climates, compared with wooden buildings, adobe buildings offer significant advantages due to their greater thermal mass, but they are known to be particularly susceptible to earthquake damage.
Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common in West Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, southwestern North America, Spain (usually in the Mudéjar style), Eastern Europe and East Anglia, particularly Norfolk, known as 'clay lump. Adobe had been in use by indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andean region of South America for several thousand years, although often substantial amounts of stone are used in the walls of Pueblo buildings.
(Also, the Pueblo people built their adobe structures with handsful or
basketsful of adobe, until the Spanish introduced them to the making of
bricks.) Adobe brickmaking was used in Spain starting by the Late Bronze
Age and Iron Age, from the eighth century B.C. on. Its wide use can be attributed to its simplicity of design and manufacture, and the economy of creating it.
A distinction is sometimes made between the smaller adobes, which are about the size of ordinary baked bricks, and the larger adobines, some of which may be one to two yards (1–2 m) long.
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