178 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BuLu. 185 
Specimen materials collected in 1954 from the surface of areas 
exposed by the 1952 excavations and from the edge of the terrace 
and the banks of the gully at the north end of the site, which had been 
sheared off here and there by bulldozers in clearing the valley of 
vegetation, include 1 piece of metal, 39 small rim and near-rim sherds, 
1 handle fragment and 111 small body sherds, 6 complete or fragmen- 
tary chipped or battered stone artifacts, 1 core, 17 unworked flakes, 1 
animal bone, and 13 mussel-shell fragments. 
SErrLEMENT FEATURES 
Seven major constructional features incorporating several kinds of 
lesser features, an accretionary feature, and 20 scattered minor con- 
structional or utilized features were uncovered, in whole or in part, 
in 11 of the 25 excavation units. The settlement features are described 
below according to eight inferred functional types: house, bower, 
sweat lodge, trash dump, drying rack, open hearth, tool cache, and 
boulder anvil. 
HOUSES 
(4, and part of another) 
The floor plans of four small or medium-size domestic dwellings (houses or 
lodges), each having a long, narrow entryway attached on the east or south- 
east and possessing varied floor and subfloor features, were exposed by excava- 
tion at the north end of the Hintz site. In addition, part of the floor plan of a 
circular dwelling, with interior features, was uncovered just beyond the 
terminus of the entryway of one of the other dwellings. The fully excavated 
dwellings, designated Houses 1 to 4, may be conveniently described in outline 
form. The partial (undesignated) house, just mentioned, will be described along 
with House 3, with which it was seemingly connected. 
House 1 (F17) in XU2; figure 28 and plate 28, a. 
Shape: Small, circular ; 16.0 feet in mean diameter. 
Depth of pit: Shallow, unfaced native earth; 1.2 feet at perimeter, 2.4 feet 
at center, below ground surface. 
Framing (inferred from excavated post holes defined by the presence of 
wood or charcoal or, more often, by fill softer than the surrounding 
matrix) : Four central supporting posts (F7-8-21, 22, 23, and 24) which 
ranged from 0.35 to 0.5 foot in diameter and were on radii of 1.55 to 4.85 
feet from the center, with the southwest corner support consisting of a 
cluster of three posts, two of which (F7 and F8) possibly representing 
replacements or auxiliary posts for the earlier post (I"21) ; and two rings 
of peripheral posts—a ring of 21 interior supporting posts ranging from 
0.2 to 0.85 foot in diameter and spaced from 1.3 to 3.5 feet apart, on a 
mean radius of 6.15 feet from the center, with a divergence of from 1.0 
foot to 1.1 feet ; and a ring of 19 exterior posts ranging from 0.25 to 0.4 foot 
in diameter and spaced from 1.9 to 2.9 feet apart, on a mean radius of 8.0 
feet from the center, with a divergence of from 0.1 to 0.9 foot. Eight extra 
posts in the northwest and northeast quadrants, ranging from 0.25 to 0.85 
foot in diameter, apparently represented brace, replacement, partition, or 
supplementary roof-support posts. 
