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Where today we would use staircases, the Ancestral Pueblo people living in a great house would have used wooden ladders made of peeled branches lashed together with cord or leather strips. Wooden ladders were used to enter kivas through a hatch in the roof. Some great house rooms had hatches in the floor / ceiling, where ladders were used to go up or down a level between rooms. Ladders were also used on the exterior, plaza-facing side of room blocks to access open patios on the roofs and gain access to rooms on the upper levels.
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