NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD 99 



beads were planted under the floor to keep children from falling off 

 ladders." 



This so-called workspace, 310, extended to the rim of Kiva N, a 

 6-pilastered chamber of second-type masonry that was apparently 

 built upon the remains of one or more earlier dwellings which, in 

 their time, had supplanted the partially razed Old Bonitian kiva 

 Pepper (ibid., p. 269) found subfloor in Room 83. The north arc 

 of Kiva N now stands 9 feet 3 inches above its floor, but 4 feet 7 

 inches below floor level we came upon a large block of native sand- 

 stone, part of the same cliff- fall Pepper reported on the first-type 

 kiva bench under 83. 



Plastered and whitened second-type masonry was disclosed re- 

 peatedly during our testing hereabout, in and under Rooms 311, 312, 

 and the area numbered 313. What is left of Room 312, with its 

 slab-lined fireplace and floor repositories, overlooks Kiva N from 

 the east and likewise appears originally to have been of second-type 

 masonry. Although third-type stonework is now most in evidence the 

 upper 11 inches of it at the south end rests upon the partially razed 

 and rebuilt second-type masonry of 313. Among the miscellany 

 scattered over the floor of Room 312 were a few bones of Ara macao, 

 the red, blue, and yellow macaw of tropical America, and several late 

 Chaco potsherds including fragments of a white cylindrical vase. 



That irregular open space numbered 313, south of 312, may conceal 

 the remains of one or more former dwellings. The latest floorlike 

 surface we came upon lies 4 feet 2 inches below that of Room 312. 

 A white-plastered door jamb, the apparent remnant of a west wall, 

 has been incorporated in the Kiva N ventilator shaft ; from this point 

 the north side, of good second-type masonry, extends 15 feet 10 inches 

 to a rebuilt corner above Kiva M. Here, among a welter of mixed 

 masonry, we came upon the remains of a 27-inch shaft whose stone- 

 work, razed 44 inches below floor level, connects at a depth of 7 feet 

 10 inches with a slab-floored tunnel, 26 inches wide by 25 inches high, 

 roofed with transverse poles and sandstone slabs, that extends north- 

 ward under 312 to an unknown destination. 



Although second-type masonry appears predominant among these 

 partially razed, subfloor walls our plotting of them (fig. 4) does 

 not seem reasonable. Some obviously preceded construction of 

 Kiva M ; some followed. In a second test pit at the southeast cor- 

 ner of the area we bared seven distinct and fairly uniform levels 

 the lowermost, at 7^ feet, of compacted sand but containing par- 

 ticles of charcoal. A third pit, at the west side of the open area, re- 



