NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD IO3 



desired. The square door in its southeast wall 3 feet 5 inches above 

 the floor is the same square door we saw at floor level in the rebuilt 

 second-type north wall under Room 70B. The latest floor in third- 

 type Room 99, therefore, is at foundation level of its second- type 

 southeast wall or approximately 3^ feet lower than that in re- 

 modeled Room 70, a relationship that is reversed elsewhere. 



The National Geographic Society found Room 99 filled with fallen 

 masonry and blown sand to sill level of its square southeast doorway, 

 that is, to a depth of 3^ feet (NGS. Neg. 18668A). We removed 

 this fill in our search for earlier walls and were rewarded by five 

 separate underfloor foundations averaging 19 inches wide by 17 inches 

 high but with no trace of finished masonry upon either. I believe 

 they were preliminary to construction of third-type Room 99 and have 

 so represented them on figure 5. Four sides of this room are 

 of unmistakable third-type masonry but that at the southeast is of 

 second-type. It was the abutting southwest foundation of Room 99 

 that blocked the rectangular door in the partially razed second-type 

 north wall of Room 70. 



Room 266, adjoining Rooms 62 and 70, is one of 14 comprising a 

 rectangular block of east- wing rooms that stands forth conspicuously 

 on any ground plan of Pueblo Bonito (fig. 2). Like 62 and 70, Room 

 266 was initially built of early, or second-type. Late Bonitian masonry 

 but this was subsequently altered with each of several structural 

 revisions. The west side of the room and the adjoining half of its 

 north end are second-type but the remainder of the north wall is 

 third-type and its easternmost 3^ feet is later still. With unhanded 

 laminate stonework predominant, the east wall may even be fourth- 

 type while that at the south is a mixture of second-, third-, and fourth. 



An earlier Room 266 floor or work surface at a depth of 10-12 

 inches immediately overlies an unidentifiable foundation averaging 21 

 inches wide and varying from 30 to 40 inches in height as it extends 

 lengthwise of the room and passes beyond both north and south ends. 

 It carries no masonry but may have been laid when the east half of 

 the north wall was rebuilt (fig. 5). 



Dug into compacted sand on either side of this subfloor foundation 

 were five jar-shaped storage cists. With constricted orifices, they aver- 

 aged 4^ feet deep by 3^ feet in maximum diameter and were not 

 plastered. At the bottom of each was a hollow of unknown sig- 

 nificance, oblong to oval in shape and 2^ to 4 inches deep. Three of 

 the five cists were situated east of the longitudinal subfloor founda- 

 tion ; two on the west side. Two of the former and one of the latter 



