. Bulletin. Ethnology. Anthbop. Pap. No. 18] UTAH ARCHEOLOGY—STEWARD 293 stone blocks were carefully selected and laid in even courses. As a rule each room stands alone, although but a few feet from its neighbor. Only rarely were two or more rooms joined end to end, a practice which, if consistently followed, would have saved the builders an appreciable amount of labor. Transitional sites or perpetuation of slab lining in late houses was seen at sites 96 and 97 (pi. 45, e) where vertically set slabs lined the inside of rectangular masonry wall rooms. No doubt excavation would have revealed thi
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Anthbop. Pap. No. 18] UTAH ARCHEOLOGY—STEWARD 293 stone blocks were carefully selected and laid in even courses. As a rule each room stands alone, although but a few feet from its neighbor. Only rarely were two or more rooms joined end to end, a practice which, if consistently followed, would have saved the builders an appreciable amount of labor. Transitional sites or perpetuation of slab lining in late houses was seen at sites 96 and 97 (pi. 45, e) where vertically set slabs lined the inside of rectangular masonry wall rooms. No doubt excavation would have revealed this at other sites. The transition from slab to masonry houses was not abrupt. Several slab-house sites have corrugated and other late pottery types, showing that the full force of the Pueblo II influence emanating from the Kayenta district was not effective at once. Masonry fol-. / ^ -Si Figure 33.—Sketch map of masonry houses, depressions, and slab structures, site 48, Wildcat Canyon. lowed but did not immediately replace slab structures, e. g., site 60, figure 34. In fact, slab cists and possibly occasional slab houses belong also to the lates^t, most fully developed masonry-house settle- ments. In one instance, site 115, a cist accompanying a masonry house contained a burial. There is nothing to indictae that, as in parts of the San Juan and in the Flagstaff region, these earliest masonry structures were pri- marily granaries. On the contrary, that they exceed the slab striite- tures in size points to their use as dwellings. If, as in the Flagstaff region (Hargrave, 1930), the depression held a subterranean house, to which the masonry rooms were accessory granaries, one must assvmie 218558—41 20. 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. Wa
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