NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD III 



The east foundation of Rooms 252 and 263 lies 5 feet 2 inches below 

 floor level in fourth-type Room 258; the east foundation of Room 

 245 lies 6 feet 9 inches below the latest floor of 244 ; and the original 

 north corner of Room 267, at the northeast angle of our rectangular 

 block, lies 4 feet 4 inches below floor level of Room 186 (pi. 32, left). 

 There was an apparent eastward slope all along that outer wall 

 evidenced, among others, by two constructional surfaces subfloor in 

 the southeast corner of Room 258. 



Construction of these east-lying rooms, including 186, 244, and 

 258, followed abandonment of plans for a far-reaching extension of 

 Pueblo Bonito (fig, 11) and these abandoned plans, in some instances 

 at least, had followed earlier structures that were built, used for a 

 time, and then deserted by the Late Bonitians. One such is the 

 second-type kiva, 10 feet deep, that underlies Rooms 243, 244, and 

 those adjoining (fig. 4). A 33-inch-wide north-south foundation, 

 part of the abandoned eastward-reaching plans, bisects the kiva, rests 

 upon its floor at depth of 10 feet, and fills its under-floor ventilator 

 duct. 



Another kiva whose excellent, unplastered stonework identifies 

 it immediately as third-type and therefore presumably a bit later than 

 that above, lies outside the northeast comer of Room 179 (fig. 5). 

 It, too, was 10 feet deep but the uppermost foot consisted of a 

 ceiling-pole offset of wall thickness, rimmed with relatively large 

 blocks of friable sandstone. An above-bench diameter of 28 feet is 

 indicated. Our test pit exposed a bench, 25 inches high by 32 inches 

 wide, its front edge somewhat broken down and, at the rear, an empty 

 6-inch-wide trough presumably designed for a wainscoting of posts 

 or dressed planks. The single pilaster we exposed here measured 18 

 inches wide and was set back 5 inches; wall masonry above it had 

 been dislodged when the pilaster log and ceiling timbers were torn 

 free. 



These two kivas, one of second-type construction and the other 

 of third-, lie outside the area known to have been occupied initially 

 by the Late Bonitians. Such data as we gathered suggested that the 

 14-room rectangular block was itself part of that initial program but, 

 of any second-type structures to the west of it, all have been razed 

 and replaced by those of a later period. Only Kiva G, with Rooms 62, 

 70, and those nearby retain visible evidence that they were built when 

 second-type masonry was in high favor. 



Kiva G was revised and rebuilt at least twice. What I judge to 

 be part of the original second-type structure is represented by the 



