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shale chips — repeatedly noted in and under Late Bonitian buildings — 

 are both Pueblo II traits at Pueblo Bonito. 



Pilaster offerings were lacking in this Old Bonitian half-kiva as 

 in the fragment beneath the terrace out in front of Room 324 (pi. 

 23, left). Pilasters are not mentioned in Pepper's description (1920, 

 p. 269) of a first-type kiva under Room 83, but the outward slant 

 of its rude stonework is again emphasized. Because the profiles of 

 all P. II kivas we know at Old Bonito, including that under the 

 south wall of Pepper's Room 83, reflect the bowl-like shape of their 

 P. I ancestors, it is possible I overlooked some important factor when 

 examining the three superposed kiva benches in that 6^-foot pit we 

 dug below floor level in Kiva R (pi. 24, right). 



The distinctive stonework of Old Bonito is to be seen repeatedly 

 east of Room 83 (fig. 3), and I am confident Late Bonitian architects 

 razed and replaced with their own more Old Bonitian dwellings and 

 kivas throughout this section than our data indicate. 



Eliva G, in the northeast quarter of the pueblo, offers superficial 

 evidence of long occupancy like Kiva R and at least two revisions 

 (pi. 70, upper). As I read the record, part of the original is repre- 

 sented in the convex middle section of the Room 62 second-type south 

 wall and its continuation eastward where it forced a corresponding 

 convexity in remodeling the west side of Room 264. Next, this original 

 was replaced by a larger kiva, also of second-type masonry, whose 20- 

 inch-thick wall is preserved on the west side of Kiva G and in the 

 stonework above its south bench recess. The northeast quarter of this 

 enlarged kiva abuts the exterior of rebuilt Room 62 and, curving 

 southeast, is lost in confused stonework against the outer west side 

 of 264. 



Kiva G as it now exists was built within that enlarged second-type 

 structure, but an elongation to the east resulted when the builders 

 apparently attempted to utilize part of the kiva wall they were replac- 

 ing. Finally, and only to correct this asymmetry, a mongrel stone- 

 work was introduced between Pilasters 1 and 3 (pis. 68, left; 69, 

 upper) and westward as far as Pilaster No. 4 at a height of 6 feet 

 4 inches. 



Normally the masonry of a kiva bench surpasses that of the wall 

 above. In Kiva G the bench averaged 24 inches high by 35 inches 

 wide ; the upper half of it is composed entirely of laminate sandstone 

 in what could be called either third-type or fourth-type, repeatedly 

 plastered and whitewashed. Below Pilasters 2 and 3 we counted 21 

 coats of whitened plaster. Six pilasters stand upon the bench, each 



