NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD II9 



of Room 151 marks the latest East Court level, the plastered and 

 sooted face of a nondescript wall, 10-12 inches thick, emerges from 

 under 151, extends east about 30 inches and then irregularly south 

 to an inner corner where it turns abruptly west and beneath the 

 east side of Room 152 (fig. 5). Here, in the 46-inch space between 

 this retreating wall and the Court corner, we noted 2 earlier surfaces 

 and an 8 by 10 inch ventilator into Room 154. Opposite, at its north 

 end, that plastered and soot-covered masonry had been razed about 

 4^ feet above its indistinct floor but there was an apparent work sur- 

 face a foot and a half lower — approximately at the same level as 

 one we had previously noted 6 feet 10 inches beneath the floor of 

 Room 152. 



That 10-inch soot-covered masonry is abutted from the east by 

 a pair of fragmentary walls of excellent third-type masonry built on 

 a former court surface about 18 inches below the latest — the one in 

 line with the Room 151 foundation offset. The paired walls aver- 

 age 17 inches wide, stand 26 inches apart, and end with a rectangu- 

 lar block of matching stonework 9 feet 10 inches from Court side. 

 They had been almost wholly razed, as I read the admittedly con- 

 fusing record, sometime prior to erection of the nondescript wall 

 under Room 152 and before this latter gave way to the third- 

 type stonework that now walls this portion of the East Court (pi. 4, 

 lower). 



Following demolition of that third-type pair and on the same plane 

 with its razed south member, a 23-inch-wide foundation was con- 

 structed here for some un fathomed purpose. Obviously it was not 

 designed, as first seemed probable, in connection with an incomplete 

 Court-corner dwelling, for an in-line extension of it, following a 

 47-inch interruption, continued eastward 20-odd feet and in the 

 process overlay part of the razed third-type pair. 



The over-all resemblance of this third-type pair to those of second- 

 type construction on a surface 4 feet lower is at once apparent. 

 Although their original function remains uncertain it seems sig- 

 nificant that these paired walls should have been repeated in prac- 

 tically the same place after a time lapse represented by 4 feet of 

 normal court accumulation and after a change from second- to third- 

 type masonry. Because masonry was my principal guide in seeking 

 to trace the evolution of Pueblo Bonito some of the razed walls in 

 this particular corner are represented on one ground plan (fig. 4) 

 and some on another (fig. 5) while still others, perhaps later than 

 either but with no identifying stonework, are not represented at all. 



