NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD 12/ 



24-inch-wide bench razed to within 10 inches of its associated floor, 

 were noted 5 feet 4 inches beneath Kiva W. The Late Bonitians had 

 no hesitancy in tearing down and replacing buildings, whatever their 

 purpose. 



Overlying second-type walls subfloor in Room 336 is still another 

 small third-type kiva. Like that in 105, its walls were razed to within 

 a few inches of their floor (pi. 74, lower). The earlier second-type 

 walls underneath may be connected with similar remains deep beneath 

 Kiva U and with the lower portion of a 16- foot-high wall between 

 Kivas U and W. But in every instance we came upon in this south- 

 western quarter of the pueblo and eastward across the West Court, 

 third-type masonry was utilized to repair or replace second-type 

 stonework. 



Room 335, which adjoins 106, offers a superb example of third- 

 type masonry, repeatedly photographed and undoubtedly the finest in 

 all the village (pi. 27, right). Below its floor are other third-type 

 walls but they are decidedly inferior. More than half the rooms in 

 Pueblo Bonito have been classed, rightly or wrongly, as of third- 

 type construction but relatively few of them exhibit the skill and 

 the patience evidenced in the walls of 335, 334, and some of their 

 neighbors. 



Throughout this whole southwestern quarter perfectly good walls 

 gave way to others that appear no better either from an esthetic or 

 structural point of view. All are of third-type masonry. Four rooms, 

 128, 129, 340, and 341, were built above the remains of a perfectly 

 serviceable kiva; Room 343, a third-type dwelling with central fire- 

 place, was abandoned as such and refitted to provide a ventilator for 

 Kiva 130. Huge T-shaped, courtward- facing doors in Rooms 334, 

 336 and the two next on the south were blocked with over-sized stones 

 before Kivas T, V, and W were built out in front (pi. 16, left). 



The period represented by the Late Bonitians' second addition was 

 one of marked constructional activity. It was the period in which 

 Pueblo Bonito assumed, or began to assume, its final unique ground 

 plan; the period, perhaps, during which the Bonitians attained the 

 very apex of their far-ranging prestige. Earlier buildings were razed 

 and replaced in prodigal fashion and stones salvaged from razed 

 walls were incorporated in their replacements. Much of this con- 

 struction and reconstruction took place in the north and east sections 

 of the pueblo. 



Over 5 feet of blown sand had piled up against the slanting ex- 

 terior of Old Bonitian Room 10 before Late Bonitian builders began 



