NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD IO9 



one to four earlier floors with accompanying alterations to walls 

 and ceilings. Each room had its beginning in what was indubitably 

 second-type masonry despite a high proportion of laminate sandstone ; 

 thereafter, each architectural change witnessed the increasing use 

 of salvaged building blocks but with decreasing reliance upon those 

 of friable sandstone. On any ground plan of Pueblo Bonito this 

 entire 14-room block looks as though it had been planned and built 

 as a unit and perhaps it was. The entire group may at one time have 

 formed the eastern boundary of the pueblo since its outer wall was 

 formerly doorless and since surface features beyond are all later 

 and at a higher level. 



Room 245 lies between 246 and 244 and shows influence from both. 

 The fourth-type Late Bonitian masonry of Room 244 abuts the 

 plastered exterior of 245 exactly 5 feet 4 inches above its foundation. 

 Both inside and out the east wall of 245 reflects the stonework of 244 

 and thus suggests the time of its last alteration. There are earlier 

 floors at depths of 4 feet 9 inches, 6 feet 1, and 6 feet 8, each separated 

 from its predecessor by constructional debris in which we noted bits 

 of cedarbark, twigs and potsherds. 



The south wall foundation of Room 245 at a depth of 7^ feet 

 lies 19 inches below the sill of a blocked door that evidences at 

 least one former dwelling in the space now occupied by Room 238 

 and Kiva D. Across the south half of 245 is an architectural feature 

 which, for want of an accurate term, I called the "subfloor chamber." 

 It was 2 feet 4 inches deep and its adobe floor rounded off with the 

 plaster of its four walls ; ultimately it had been filled with construc- 

 tional debris and floored over, the flooring in this instance merging 

 with the plaster of the main room. 



Embedded upright in the southwest corner of this "chamber" fill, 

 a 3- foot length of pine log 8 inches in diameter provided a 24-inch- 

 high step to an elevated doorway that slanted upward through the 

 wall and into Room 246B, A foot below the top of that step a 2-inch 

 hole gouged from one side identified the log as one salvaged from a 

 kiva pilaster. I am aware of no other Pueblo Bonito example in 

 which a room on one level was connected with another on a different 

 level by means of an intermural stairway. Architecturally the idea 

 seems worth copying. 



Mindeleff (1891) states that the oblique wall opening as a means 

 of conveying light to a lower room was a fairly frequent feature at 

 Zuni in the mid-19th century. 



Room 247, originally one with 252, is separated from the latter 



