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Now listen to part of lecture on the topic you just read about.
現在來聽一段有關你剛剛所閱讀到的話題的演講。
Unfortunately none of the arguments about what the Chaco great houses were used for is convincing.
不幸的是，關于查科峽谷巨屋是用來做什么的的觀點，沒有一個具有說服力。
First, sure, from the outside, the great houses look like later and native American apartment buildings,
首先，確實，從外面看，巨屋看起來像后來本地美國人的公寓大樓，
but the inside of the great houses casts serious doubt on the idea that many people lived there.
但是，巨屋里面卻對很多人住在這里的觀點提出了嚴重質疑。
I'll explain.
我將進行解釋。
If hundreds of people were living in the great houses,
如果有幾百人住在巨屋的話，
then there would have to be many fireplaces, where each family did its daily cooking, but there are very few fireplaces.
那么就會有很多每個家庭日常烹調都要用到的壁爐，但是，這里只有一些壁爐。
In one of the largest great houses, there were fireplaces for only around ten families.
在其中一個最大的巨屋里面，有的壁爐數量只夠大約10戶人家用。
Yet there were enough rooms in the great house for more than a hundred families,
但是巨屋里有足夠多的房間供一百多戶人家居住，
so the primary function of the houses couldn't have been residential.
所以，巨屋的首要作用不可能是居住。
Second, the idea that the great houses were used to store grain maize is unsupported by evidence.
第二，巨屋是用來儲藏玉米的想法沒有證據來支持。
It may sound plausible that large empty rooms were used for storage,
巨大的空房間用來儲存聽起來似乎很合理，
but excavations of the great houses have not uncovered many traces of maize or maize containers.
但是，對巨屋的挖掘沒有發現很多玉米或者是玉米容器的蹤跡。
If the great houses were used for storage, why isn't there more spilled maize on the floor?
如果巨屋是用來儲藏的，為什么會沒有更多的玉米溢出在地板上？
Why aren't there more remains of big containers?
為什么沒有更多的大容器的遺跡？
Third, the idea that the great houses were ceremonial centers isn't well supported either.
第三，巨屋是儀式中心的觀點也沒有論據支持。
You know that mound at Pueblo Alto?
你們知道那個普韋布洛·阿爾托堆吧？
It contains lots of other materials besides broken pots, stuff you wouldn't expect from ceremonies.
除去破了的罐子它還含有很多其他的材料，一些你不會認為是儀式上必要的東西。
For example, there are large quantities of building materials, sands, stones, even construction tools.
比如，有大量的建筑材料，沙子、石頭、甚至建筑工具。
This suggests that the mound is just a trash heap of construction material,
這表明，這個堆僅僅是一個垃圾堆，充滿了建筑材料，
stuff that was thrown away or not used up when a house was being built.
被丟棄或者是建房子時沒有用完的東西。
The pots in the pile could be regular trash too, leftover from the meals of the construction workers.
堆里的罐子也可能建筑工人們三餐中剩下的平常垃圾。
So the Pueblo Alto mound is not good evidence that the great houses were used for special ceremonies.
所以普韋布洛阿爾托堆不是巨屋是用于特殊儀式這一觀點的好證據。
