NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD 169 



duced after doors to the rooms adjoining on the south, 171 and 172, 

 had been tightly closed with masonry. These two outside, groundfloor 

 rooms are among those in which, for the Hyde Expedition, "nothing 

 of special interest was developed" (Pepper, 1920, p. 339). The few 

 we examined had already been excavated to or below floor level. No 

 external wall now stands ceiling high, but we noted one ventilator in 

 the middle south side of 159-160 and assume that the rooms on 

 either side, during occupancy, were provided with one or two like 

 openings. 



Although such data as we recorded relative to these front rooms 

 are briefed in Appendix B, it seems desirable to focus attention 

 upon certain architectural features in passing. Room 170, for ex- 

 ample, with east and west doors fitted for outward-sloping slabs, 

 has a north-end platform at second-story level reached by recessed 

 steps 28 inches wide. There is no trace of a screening front to this 

 platform but a former door, now blocked, once opened through its 

 north wall at a height of 18 inches and ancient repairs are evident 

 in the northeast corner. 



In the west wall of this room another former door, 2 feet wide 

 by 40 inches high with lintels at platform level, once opened into 

 Room 268, About a foot below this door and abutting the platform, 

 as seen in Pepper's unpublished negative 646, is the uppermost of 

 two masonry steps. Apparently embedded in this step-block and 

 extending southward close against the west wall a few inches above 

 the floor were 2 or 3 pine logs forming a bench-like fixture, a feature 

 no longer present. 



Room 268, its floor 4 feet above that of Room 169 adjoining, is 

 another one-time dwelling evidencing alteration. Its east and south 

 walls are of banded fourth-type masonry while the others consist 

 largely of dressed blocks of friable sandstone salvaged from some 

 second-type building. The north side abuts from both directions a 

 plastered Late Bonitian wall that had been razed upon construction 

 of Kiva H but in such manner as to leave its south end protruding 

 19 inches into Room 268. In the face of this rebuilt and replastered 

 wall-end a small oval niche appears 2^ feet above the floor, 



A second section of the same partially razed wall stands as an 

 isolated column 2^ feet from the protruding portion. I resisted the 

 temptation for subfloor exploration but in a vertical, west-wall chan- 

 nel 4 inches wide and 7 inches deep we recovered the remains of a 

 hewn timber, reduced to a length of 5 feet 2 inches (JPB, No. 27), 

 that gave Dr. Douglass a tree-ring date of A.D. 1080 (Smiley, 1951). 



