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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I9: 



139 



Altogether, 35 secular rooms and six kivas were excavated in 

 Pueblo Bonlto during the past summer. Several of these, follovi^ing 

 abandonment of the eastern portion of the pueblo, had been utilized 

 as dumping places by the families which still dwelt nearby. Rubbish 

 from wall repairs, floor sweepings containing potsherds and other 

 artifacts, cedar bark and splinters from old wood piles, etc., com- 

 prised this debris. The doorways in many of these deserted dwellings 

 had been blocked with stone and mud and the rooms themselves were 



Fig. 133. — Part of the excavated area of Pueblo Eonito at the elo-e nf 

 the 1922 season, looking southeast across Kiva G (in the foreground). 

 The upper walls in the three kivas shown here have been sHghtly repaired 

 to prevent rain water from running into the open rooms. ( Photograph 

 by Neil M. Judd. Courtesy of the National Geographic Society. ) 



entirely filled by masonr\- fallen from the upper stories and by the 

 vast accumtilation of blown sand and adobe. Indications of fire were 

 encountered frequently but in most instances the conflagration ob- 

 viously occurred at a consideral^le period following the general aban- 

 donment inasmuch as blown sand and. sometimes, fallen wall material 

 had accumulated upon the lower floors before the Inirning of the 

 ceiling structure. From this evidence, it is certain that the fire which 

 destroyed much of the woodwork in the eastern portion of Pueblo 

 Bonito could have contributed in no wise to its desertion. Sections 



