NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD I45 



294. At its north end the westernmost of these connecting founda- 

 tions overtops the east-west unit by 9 inches, a difference leveled with 

 fourth-type stonework — one of three instances in this area where 

 finished masonry appears upon units of the Complex. 



As the Complex continues eastward a conspicuous change occurs 

 north of Rooms 183-187. On the ground no less than on our 

 surveyor's plot (fig. 11) there appears a bewildering confusion of 

 foundations. They supplant and intermix; they abut and overlap; 

 they stop and change direction. One might guess that two or more 

 architectural plans had clashed here; that the city planners had 

 reached an impasse or become inextricably enmeshed in their own 

 schemes. Abandoned handiwork was not demolished, as one might 

 suppose ; it was merely covered up and forgotten (pi. 45, upper). 



We traced many of these outlying foundations under the outer 

 wall of Pueblo Bonito and found them differing in no appreciable 

 degree from other foundations. Those beneath Room 186 are 

 especially instructive. The room floor had been spread directly upon 

 five foundation units that intrude from the northeast and the north- 

 west to abut older walls under the floor. 



Most conspicuous of these older subfloor walls is the jutting 

 corner of original Room 267, built of banded laminate sandstone in 

 what I should call superior third- or fourth-type masonry (pi. 46, 

 lower). Plastered outside and partially razed, the corner stands on 

 its own 11 -inch-high foundation at a depth of 4 feet 4 inches ; 9 inches 

 higher, the corner is abutted by another partially razed wall of com- 

 parable stonework, that continues west to underly the present south- 

 west side of Room 187. Plaster on the face of this lower wall 

 carries around the original 267 corner and rounds off with an ap- 

 parent work surface that slopes down and away from the wall. 

 A second, similar work surface lies 6 inches higher. Here, more 

 clearly than elsewhere, we see units of the Northeast Foundation 

 Complex abutting adandoned third-type walls in anticipation of an 

 addition that was itself abandoned and immediately superseded by 

 the present row of outside rooms. 



Three inches below the floor of Room 186, right where its south- 

 west foundation abuts the east side of original 267, an 8-inch-high 

 stack of loose stones was concealed at time of construction. Built on 

 sand, the pile fell during excavation and thus revealed a small 

 turquoise offering placed there, according to one of our Zufii work- 

 men, "to hold up the house." 



Foundations of the Complex extending subfloor into Rooms 186 



