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sides, results in a pyramid which is easily defended. 
The common prehistoric arrangement around an en- 
closed court from which the upper stories recede is still 
found. The third type has the houses in long parallel 
rows terraced back from the streets. 
In the Rio Grande region Taos has two large houses 
of the pyramidal type on either side of a beautiful, 
‘stream. One of these is five and the other four stories 
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Floor Plan of Hopi Living Room. 
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high. San Ildefonso, Jemez, Santa Clara, and San 
Felipe have one or more enclosed courts. Acoma is an 
excellent example of the third type having three rows 
of three-story houses, terraced back from the streets. 
Santo Domingo and San Juan have a similar arrange- 
ment. 
Zuni combines both the first and second types of 
arrangement. It is terraced back from the outside 
but also has several courts, in the largest of which the 
old church is situated. The pueblo is intersected by a 
number of passageways or streets leading to the interior 
