NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD II 



that accumulation. We made a number of tests close along the west 

 side of the Court and then, boldly, extended our 1921 West Mound 

 trench to the ruin and northward to Kiva Q. 



That extended trench (pi. 6, right), 5 feet wide and 12 feet deep, 

 solved our 4-year-old puzzle, the mixture of early and late village 

 refuse. At a depth of 10 feet 2 inches we came upon the floor of a 

 Great Kiva, over 50 feet in diameter, built inside a huge excavation 

 expressly dug in a vast accumulation of household rubbish and later 

 completely razed. Rubbish from that excavation, nearly 2000 tons of 

 it, may well have started the West Mound — the mound we had pro- 

 filed 4 times, 1921-1924. Sandstone spalls and chunks of dried mortar 

 from the razed kiva added to the displaced rubbish. So, too, did 

 quantities of current floor sweepings. 



Just outside the south limit of that razed kiva was a previously 

 undisturbed section of the original trash pile. Into that remnant 

 Amsden and Roberts, to whom I had entrusted our entire stratigraphic 

 study, sank two yard-square test pits the first 13 feet deep and the 

 second, 12 (fig. 7). As in any other dump, discards at the bottom were 

 older than those above and the sequence in which they occurred, 

 bottom to top, provided the information on which Roberts and 

 Amsden based our knowledge of local ceramics. 



Much has been written about the prehistoric pottery of Chaco 

 Canyon. Beginning with Kidder (1924), archeologists have extolled 

 the exceptional whiteness of its surface slip, the variety and the per- 

 fection of its hachured designs, the blackness of its paint. More than 

 one has puzzled over the association there of Early Pueblo and Late 

 Pueblo vessel shapes and ornamentation, of mineral paint and vegetal 

 paint — enigmas not solved until Amsden and Roberts cut their two 

 12-foot-deep tests into sub-court debris at Pueblo Bonito. From 

 Test 1 they recovered 3,593 potsherds ; from Test 2, 2,934. 



The 2,934 sherds from Test 2 (U.S.N.M. No. 334175), to limit 

 this presentation, occurred as follows : 



Strata A B 



Black-on-white .... 97 277 



Plain gray 30 173 



Broad band 10 55 



Narrow band 



Nail-cut band 1 4 



Waved band 



Corrugated-coil ... 23 47 



Black-on-red 1 9 



Pol. black inter.... 1 2 



