. Bulletin. Ethnology. Roberts] ARCHEOLOGICAL REMAINS IN ARIZONA 107 to have had any connection with the superstructure and must have had some specific purpose apart from any association with the roof. What that may have been can be answered only by specula- tion. The important factor in connection with the presence of this floor feature lies in the fact that its general position and location corresponds in marked degree to the subfloor vaults found in kivas in ruins throughout this general district and also to the subfloor vaults generally present in great kivas or superceremonial cham- bers.
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Roberts] ARCHEOLOGICAL REMAINS IN ARIZONA 107 to have had any connection with the superstructure and must have had some specific purpose apart from any association with the roof. What that may have been can be answered only by specula- tion. The important factor in connection with the presence of this floor feature lies in the fact that its general position and location corresponds in marked degree to the subfloor vaults found in kivas in ruins throughout this general district and also to the subfloor vaults generally present in great kivas or superceremonial cham- bers.*^ These vaults are generally rectangular in shape and of greater depth than the depression m structure 12. Their purpose. FiGUBB 27.—Positions of burned timbers on floor of etructure 12. in kivas has never been determined and as a consequence they can throw little light on the present occurrence, but the analogy should be mentioned. The significant feature is that such a depression had been present in a position corresponding to that of the kiva vaults. Future investigations may in time furnish data that will definitely explain why they were placed in ceremonial chambers. It would be interesting to know what reason the occupants of structure 12 had for discarding the depression and filling it in. Unfortunately, that is one of many things that must remain unknown. There were low ridges of adobe plaster at two places on the top of the bench. These are particularly worthy of comment because of *» Roberts, 1932, pp. 58-60, 69-70, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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