A ladder gives access to the roof of a pueblo home, and to the home above it, at the Taos Pueblo in Taos, New Mexico. The Pueblo is a multi-storied residential complex of reddish-brown adobe, and is the largest multistoried Pueblo structure still existing. The buildings originally had few windows and no standard doorways. Instead, access to rooms was through square holes in the roof that were reached by climbing long, wooden ladders which could be pulled up for defensive purposes.
A ladder gives access to the roof of a pueblo home, and to the home above it, at the Taos Pueblo in Taos, New Mexico. The Pueblo is a multi-storied residential complex of reddish-brown adobe, and is the largest multistoried Pueblo structure still existing. The buildings originally had few windows and no standard doorways. Instead, access to rooms was through square holes in the roof that were reached by climbing long, wooden ladders which could be pulled up for defensive purposes.
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