[Steely Tom]

Lekson estimates that 95 percent of the Chaco people lived in small pueblos, while an elite 5 percent lived in the great houses. Pueblo Bonito and the other Chaco great houses were "tall, empty monuments" that could have been used for a variety of activities, from ceremonies and storage to inns and even slave cells, he said.

No way. Can't be true. I know for a fact there was no slavery until Ronald Reagan invented it.

[bert]

.....ceremonies and storage .......

The probable use of Pueblo Bonita as storage is most likely. Most spaces have no windows or doors and thus no lighting except from a hole in the roof.In other works he hypothesizes that storing food allowed political control. There are also very large kivas as seperate structures for the ceremonies.