NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD 93 



chamber but rather extension of the wall between Kivas U and W, 

 with blocked doors at the second story level. 



Our exploratory trenches in the West Court, while less convincing 

 than I could wish, nevertheless disclosed remnants of cross-court 

 building operations that, together with less dubious remnants under 

 the East Court, indicate that Late Bonitian architects were, from the 

 time they assumed control at Pueblo Bonito, intent upon joining its 

 two extremes into a compact whole. This idea, which apparently 

 never occurred to the builders of Old Bonito, was notably intensified 

 during the Late Bonitians' second and greater expansion program 

 (fig. 5). 



When the Late Bonitians came to dwell at Pueblo Bonito their 

 first major activity was a 2-part building program: a single 

 row of 2-story houses raised against the blank exterior of Old 

 Bonito and a series built upon a row of ground floor rooms lining 

 its concave front. Both parts of that initial undertaking are still 

 obvious today. Typical Old Bonitian stonework survives in Room 

 330B but north of it only 1 -story buildings remain, mostly with 

 second-type. Late Bonitian structures above. 



Second-type Late Bonitian masonry is present for all to see in 

 Rooms 328B, 327B, and 324, and, as previously explained, walls of 

 the first two are supported by a cruder but contemporary variation 

 built in to strengthen the Old Bonitian ground-floor stonework. The 

 north and east sides of Room 324 are of third-type masonry at the 

 second-story level, and followed demolition of a second-type kiva 

 that partially underlies fourth-type Kiva Z. If this seems compli- 

 cated let me add that during trenching operations outside the south- 

 east corner of the Kiva Z enclosure, we came upon the arc of a first- 

 type or Old Bonitian kiva that had been partially razed to make way 

 for one of Late Bonitian second-type masonry and this latter, in due 

 course, had been supplanted by third-type Kiva 67. Here, almost 

 within arm's reach, was displayed the entire range of Pueblo Bonito 

 stonework, first to last. 



Room 324, a third type-masonry dwelling at the second-story level, 

 was equipped with a masonry-lined fireplace boasting two sandstone 

 firedogs. A half dozen stone implements and two shattered Corru- 

 gated-coil pots lay upon the floor. That floor was 10 feet above floor 

 level in Old Bonitian Room 325, adjoining on the west, and 3^ feet 

 above that in Kiva Z. 



Earlier floors were noted in Room 324 at depths of 7 inches and 

 42 inches. On the latest of these two a 7-inch- wide foundation of 



