 Based upon the similarities between the Ancestral Puebloans and modern puebloan people, it is likely that the communities were organized in clans, or groups of related family members, by matrilineal lines of descent.When a couple married, they lived at the home of the wife's mother and the husband engaged in religious activities in the kiva of his mother's clan.During the Pueblo III period some people were buried with personal objects, indicating both a level of prestige and evolved religious beliefs.