Pit Houses Of The Anasazi Culture

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The Anasazi culture had two types of housing. Their first dwellings were called pit houses. Pit houses are structures dug into the ground surface with stick and thatch roofs supported by posts and beams and plastered on the outside with dirt and clay. A fire was used for cooking either inside the pit house or outside in a communal area. Usually single families lived in these homes which were grouped together with other homes. This grouping created a village for protection. Some early Anasazi sites had a pithouse that was three times larger than the others in the village. Archeologists think these might have been Kivas or places of worship. The Anasazi lived in cliff dwellings around 1270 – 1300 AD. The cliff dwelling contained rooms for living,
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