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Room 36, the loop door lock plus the post-and-mud wall in Room 61 

 (both P. II traits in southeastern Utah), and un-Chaco-like masonry 

 all unite to strengthen my belief that families from beyond the Rio 

 San Juan were welcomed at Old Bonito and occupied various rooms 

 including 35, 36, 37, and 61. These four apparently were created by 

 partitioning an Old Bonitian living-room fronting storerooms 1, 2, 5, 

 and 6. Hyde Expedition timbers from Rooms 32 and 36 unfortunately 

 remain undated (Douglass, 1921, p. 30) but it is to be recalled that 

 Roberts and Amsden found no fragment of Mesa Verde-like pottery 

 below the upper 50 inches of their 12- foot-deep West Court Test 2. 

 Thus Mesa Verde pottery was introduced at Pueblo Bonito some 

 time after arrival of the Late Bonitians. 



The north face of Old Bonitian Room 28, as seen in Pepper's 

 figure 44, is a Late Bonitian veneer of second-type masonry and 

 is abutted by the partition between 28 and 28fl. Room 28a, therefore, 

 is an Old Bonitian idea that followed the veneering, a Late Bonitian 

 veneering contemporaneous with construction of like walls in first- 

 and second-story rooms both east and west from 91 and 92. 



It is quite obvious from Pepper's recorded notes and from what 

 we saw in the field that the Late Bonitians preempted and remodeled 

 many Old Bonitian homes in this north-central section and east 

 thereof. We observed the foundations for razed second-type walls 

 under the floors of several rooms ; we saw where second-type masonry 

 had replaced first-type and where third-type had replaced the second. 

 Beginning in Rooms 71, 78, and 86 there is an abrupt substitution 

 of third-type masonry for that of Old Bonitian origin (pi. 22, 

 upper). 



Late Bonitian architects rebuilt the east third of Old Bonitian 

 Room 71 and introduced a later floor about 6 inches above the origi- 

 nal. On this latter was a slab-lined fireplace, 2 feet 7 inches in 

 diameter and 14 inches from the end of a subfloor ventilator duct 

 directed toward the southeast corner (Pepper, ibid., p. 257). 



Adjoining 71 on the west is Room 83, a much-altered Old Bonitian 

 living room in which Pepper (ibid., p. 269) noted three successive 

 floors. The second of these consisted of sandstone slabs laid in adobe 

 mud; the lower and earlier floor exhibited "a multiplicity of walls 

 and fireplaces." Obviously the occupants lived here a long while. 

 Unpublished Hyde negatives Nos. 275 and 276 show a west-end door, 

 its jambs rounded and whitewashed, about 2 feet above the upper- 

 most floor and 2 pairs of post steps below the sill. 



