Both the reading passage and the listening passage are discussing the topic about how the “great houses” were used in the past. However, their perspectives are different. The reading argues that there are three possible hypotheses about the usage of the building-residential place, storage, or ceremonial centers-while the professor in the listening disagrees and says otherwise.
The first point made in the passage is that the great houses were simply residential areas where can accommodate hundreds of people. The reading argued that these architectural features can also be seen in contemporary southwest societies. It further illustrated that “apartment buildings” at Taos, which were purely residential areas, look similar to the “great houses”. The lecturer, however, challenges this particular viewpoint by arguing that these houses assumed to be unable to house hundreds of people. He argues that there should have been more fireplaces in order to support the theory that the “great houses” were actually residential areas. He claims that fireplaces no more than 10 were found inside the houses.
Another point the article put an emphasis on is that the “great houses” were used as storages. Grain maize was their main crops and they gradually needed to find a place to store tons of grain maize without any corruption or decay. In contrast, the lecturer contends that there should have been more spilled maize and big containers inside houses, but they could not be found inside the house frequently. (이부분 리스닝 디테일 더 살려주세요~!)
Finally, it is stated in the reading passage that the houses would have been ceremonial centers. In the architecture called Pueblo Alto, it was revealed that there were big mounds formed by old materials, including broken pots, which were definite evidence for the theory that people hold a special ceremony in the past. On the contrary, it is accentuated in the lecture that there were also tons of other materials which were irrelevant with to the ceremony such as sand and stone. He asserts that those pots have a probability of being just a regular trash.