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(if charred ami other beams have been examined hi determine the 

 relative date of cutting- and in the hope. also, that a means may yet 

 lie discovered for connectin;^ the annual rinys in these ancient timbers 

 with those in trees -till grov^'ing upon the northern New Mexicti 

 mesas. Inasmuch a> the prehistoric Bonitians left no known calendar 

 or other time record, an ehort is to be made to correlate their dis- 

 tinctix'e chronoloyv with that of our own ci\ilization ihi-ough over- 



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Img. 134. — The high clitt behind Puelilo fionito ahords an excciiuimai 

 vantage point from which to view the ancient rnin. In this photograph, 

 taken at the close of the 1922 season, the relationship of the secular 

 rooms and kivas is at once apparent. Note the cars and track l)y which 

 debris was conveyed from the ruin for deposition in the arroyo ; also the 

 expedition camp in the upper right-hand corner. (Photograph l)y Xeil M. 

 Judd. Courtesy of the National Geographic Society.) 



lapjjing scries of growth ring^ in li\ing trees, old logs and ancient 

 beams. 



Investigations pursued beneath the Hoors of both dwelling rooms 

 and kivas revealed, as in i(;2l. the remains of razed walls belonging 

 to an earlier period of constrtiction. Idie later habitations do not 

 necessariK' conform to the outline of those iireceding : the masonrv 



