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vealed the convex curve of an adobe wall, 34 inches high, razed 2^ feet 

 below the surface and partially covered by the external stonework 

 of Kiva N. 



Apparently there was more Late Bonitian constructional activity 

 around the courtward side of Old Bonito than our data disclose. 

 Some of that activity, as we have seen, included walls of second-type 

 masonry; some of it resulted in walls built, in part at least, with 

 stone salvaged from razed second-type structures. Demolition, re- 

 construction, and replacement are everywhere evident. 



Kiva R, at the north end of the West Court, apparently possessed 

 some intangible quality that led to repeated revision rather than re- 

 placement. Its location may have been the determining factor. At 

 any rate Kiva R apparently started as an Old Bonitian creation which 

 the Late Bonitians adopted and rebuilt, first in second- and later in 

 third-type masonry. And with each revision the Late Bonitian priest- 

 hood adhered religiously to the outward slope of the original (pi. 69, 

 lower). In contrast, Kiva N was constructed of second-type masonry 

 throughout but upon the site of an abandoned and partially razed 

 Old Bonitian chamber. 



Eastward from Kiva N and Room 312 whatever court-side struc- 

 tures of second-type masonry formerly existed have been replaced 

 by those of third-type masonry. This is an area of intensive 

 Late Bonitian constructional activity. Their architects ordered demoli- 

 tion of at least 15 Old Bonitian 2-story houses to make way for those 

 of second-type masonry. Our test pits revealed portions of second- 

 type kivas beneath third-type kivas L and O (figs. 4; 15), but north 

 thereof I am less certain. Such foundations as we came upon usually 

 were so completely stripped of their stonework there was nothing left 

 by which to identify them. Bare foundations all look alike ! 



Some of the underfloor masonry in Rooms 88 and 90 is positively 

 second-type; some of that under Kiva 75 might be or it might be 

 older, as was previously suggested. Some of the lower walls in much- 

 altered Room 64 retain a strong flavor of original second-type con- 

 struction and this is also true of the subfloor ventilator ducts and 

 other fixtures of Old Bonitian Rooms 315 and 316. Not until one 

 comes to Rooms 62 and 70 and Kiva G may one enter surface struc- 

 tures in which second-type masonry visibly predominates. And, after 

 G, there is that conspicuous rectangular block of 14 adjacent rooms 

 in which Late Bonitian architects exercised the whole gamut of their 

 distinctive stonework. 



Pepper (1920, p. 223) wrote: "Room 62 was very interesting." 



