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Indigenous American architecture

Indigenous American architecture

(500 B.C.–1500 A.D.)
The native styles include the wigwams and long houses of forested areas, teepees of the Plains Indians, igloos of the Inuits, and sophisticated communal pueblo cities carved out of mountain sides or built out of adobe in the Southwest.
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