KIDDER-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 45 
Just in front of the three rear rooms, and extending all around 
the back of the cave, is an upper terrace made by a natural rise of 
the rock. The deposit here is shallow and consists largely of ashes. 
At a, figure 15, we uncovered a coiled and indented olla of the 
normal cliff-dwelling variety, bound with yucca harness and cov- 
ered with a flat stone. The covering slab lay directly beneath the 
sheep-dung layer at the level of the last occupancy. Save for a 
handful of white powdery substance, it wasempty. At), figure 15, on 
the floor in the corner of the easternmost of the three back rooms was 
found a bowl made from the bottom of an old olla. Inverted over it, 
but pushed to one side and crushed down by the pressure of the 
earth, was a small jar with flat coiling at the neck, containing a large 
hank of decaying yucca string. The fragments of the upper jar 
were saved; the bowl was too much rotted to handle. The string, of 
fine quality, very evenly twisted and apparently more than 100 yards 
long, was put carefully aside in an attempt to dry it sufficiently for 
preservation. It was forgotten when we packed the other specimens. 
The two pieces of pottery were both of the type found in the lower 
levels; from their position on the floor of the room, their advanced 
state of decay, and because of che fact that dry rubbish, including a 
sandal and a pot ring, was found lying directly above them, we be- 
lieve them to have belonged to the early occupancy. 
Room 5 was so full of turkey droppings (in places nearly 2 feet 
deep) that it seems probable that it was used, presumably by the 
later inhabitants, as a turkey pen. Room 4 was quite full of dry, 
well-preserved rubbish, with red-and-yellow and Kayenta black-and- 
white sherds. Here were found several sandals, bits of cotton cloth, 
wooden implements, and a problematical object woven of yucca 
(see fig. 40). 
It is unfortunate that none of the rooms of what we have called 
“normal cliff-dwelling” masonry should have been built directly 
above the semisubterranean adobe structures which are considered 
to have belonged to the first occupancy of the cave. If they had been, 
the relative age of the two would be settled beyond question. The 
finds in the lower parts of the sunken rooms, as distinguished from 
those made in their upper parts, agree so closely with the character 
of the stratification throughout the body of the cave as to leave 
no doubt in our minds that the sunken rooms were used, partly 
filled with rubbish, and abandoned, before the erection of the stone- 
built rooms by the people who made the Kayenta red-and-yellow and 
black-and-white pottery. 
Although some trenching was done at the front of the cave in 
the hope of finding skeletons, none were discovered. 
