NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD lO/ 



248 and 249 but a later one, subsequently sealed from 249, had ac- 

 companied the final revision of 251. In this final remodeling, wall 

 masonry is a mongrel composed primarily of laminate sandstone but 

 including many dressed blocks of friable sandstone. As last occupied, 

 Room 251 connected with 262, adjoining on the north, and with 256 

 by means of an alleyway, 250. The improvised opening into 250 was 

 provided with a sturdy pine post at its south jamb and a hewn plank 

 on top to support six 3-inch lintels (NGS. Neg. 15866A). 



And thus it was all down the row, from Room 266 to 246. Each 

 room had experienced repeated changes; in each, earlier walls and 

 pavements had been replaced. With a ceiling height of 11 feet 



4 inches, Room 246 had earlier floors at depths of 12 and 20 inches, 

 each covered with debris of reconstruction. The latest of these two 

 had been spread 7 inches above the sill of a neatly blocked door to 

 Room 248, but there was no trace of a comparable opening in the 

 south wall. The lower floor covered a layer of stones and we did not 

 dig deeper. 



Rooms 248 and 249 were not dwellings but the result of a dwelling 

 divided. Indeed, 248 may have been an intentional sacrifice since the 

 partition between had been built from the 249 side and the lower 3 feet 

 of it was only one stone wide, corresponding to the depth of a 

 deliberate sand fill in 248. Above the 3- foot mark the partition 

 doubled in thickness and household sweepings overlay the barren 

 sand. 



Room 249, the north half of this former residence, had been 

 separated from 248 and then divided vertically into upper and lower 

 chambers. The upper, roofed by three east- west pine beams 10 inches 

 in diameter at the original height of 13 feet, plus the usual ceiling 

 poles and layered cedar splints, had been crushed down into the lower 

 chamber by collapse of second-story masonry. This lower chamber, 

 roofed by four 4-inch east-west logs at a height of 7 feet, the custom- 

 ary ceiling poles, and a layer of reeds, was designed to house macaws 

 whose feathers were in endless ceremonial demand. 



North and west doors in the lower chamber had been blocked 

 and plastered to leave foot-deep recesses. A possible hatchway 

 in the southwest corner was suggested by a hand-hewn board, 



5 inches wide and 26 inches long, found on the floor together with 

 rounded chunks of adobe. Lengthwise of the east wall an adobe- 

 floored shelf about 40 inches wide and supported on four 4-inch logs 

 set into the north and south masonry 3 feet 8 inches above the floor 

 provided a shelf for live macaws {Ara macao). We found four 



