ever know what went on
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mbers at Tyuonyi, or as a matter of fact, in any other prehistoric kiva. And speaking of kivas or ceremonial chambers, some groups preferred to have theirs in the cliffs, hewn out like the smoky cave rooms but generally larger. And the kivas, like the cave rooms, were plastered half-way up the walls whenever they became smoked. This happened quite often if fires were kept bu
rning.
The greatest period of occupation of Hidden Valley
must have begun sometime during the fifteenth century. It
was to last about a hundred
year
s. Wit
h the beginning of
this Great Period, the pe
riod in which Puwige and all of
the t
alus houses were most likely built a
nd occupied, there
ce
rtainly must have been some social or ceremon
ial organization
similar to
that in the modern pueblos.
There we
re
like
ly two moieties
. The dual s
ystem where every person in
the village belonged to
ash, or, Winter EMRTC
or Summer respe
ctively. Presumab