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lowiiess of many Hyde Expedition discoveries that convinced me 

 Old Bonito was inhabited later than other sections of the pueblo. 

 Here, in this oldest part of town, fragile but inflammable ceilings 

 have survived in greatest number ; here, scraps of textiles, feathers, 

 and basketry have best withstood the elements; here one finds the 

 greatest variety of cultural material and here one notes a prepon- 

 derance of early pottery types along with increasing percentages of 

 Late Hachure, McElmo Black-on-white, and Corrugated-coil Culi- 

 nary. Kiva Q, at the northeast corner of the West Court, was a 

 Late Bonitian creation and 2 or 3 Late Bonitian rooms overhung its 

 eastern arc but, of 4,527 potsherds recovered during its excavation, 

 33.4 percent were Old Bonitian. 



The original post-and-mud construction on the southeast side of 

 Rooms 3 and 3a (97) continued south, I believe, to enclose the row 

 of one-story rooms Old Bonitian architects built in front of 112, 323, 

 325, and 326 sometime prior to arrival of the Late Bonitians. A por- 

 tion of this court-side row was removed, I feel certain, to make 

 way for the second-type kiva that preceded Kiva Z (fig. 4). Post- 

 and-mud walls still stand in Rooms 327, 328, and 329 where they 

 served, as did those in 3 and 3a, as foundations for Late Bonitian 

 walls erected at the second-story level. 



Room 329 adjoins 328 on the south and together with three neigh- 

 boring rooms, 320, 326, and 330, had come to be utilized late in the 

 history of Pueblo Bonito for interment of 73 Old Bonitian dead, 

 identified as such by their burial furnishings. The location of these 

 four rooms at the extreme south end of the west wing may have in- 

 fluenced their selection as burial places but it is to be noted that four 

 other rooms, 32, 33, 53, and 56, situated at the very heart of the 

 old pueblo, likewise had become impromptu tombs when the local 

 population was denied access to their extramural cemeteries (Judd, 

 1954, pp. 325-342). 



Rooms 32, 33, 53, and 56 comprise a tight cluster of small ground- 

 floor chambers at least two of which were storage places for cere- 

 monial paraphernalia and all of which ultimately became tombs for 

 more than 20 individuals (Pepper, 1909; 1920). A single door, sub- 

 sequently sealed from Room 28, gave access to 32; open doors con- 

 nected 32 with 33 and 53 ; 53 with 56. Thus the 20-odd bodies in- 

 terred within these four rooms were all pulled through the 22- by 

 34-inch opening that formerly gave access from 28 to 32. 



