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10.10综合TPO 5
Both the reading and the speech focus on the function of mega buildings of Chaco Canyon. The former believes that there are three possible theories to explain the useage of the buildings whereas the latter cast doubt on each of the theories.
To begin with, the first theory is that Chaco structures were residential which could hundreds of residents. Nevertheless, the lecture argues that if they were for living propose, there should be a lot of fire places and that ,as the evidence shows, the massive building could contain hundreds of families but only ten fire places were found at the sites which could not have been residential use.
In addition, there comes the second theory that the buildings could archive food supplies. In contrast, the lecturer demonstrates deep opposition to such a claim, by stating that excavation at the sites does not show any provement of maize remains or maize containers. There is absent evidence to support the second theory either.
At last, another probable explanation is that these houses were ceremonial centers with the finding of broken pots. Conversely, as the speaker affirms, other materials were found beside the broken pots such as sand, stone, construction tools which strongly improve that these were rubbish threw away by the workers after the buildings were finished, turning out that the third theory is groundless.
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