. Bulletin. Ethnology. 6 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 81 was a charred line of fragments of floor material, composed of beams, twigs, and adobe, resting on 40 cm. of sand which had drifted into the room before the upper floor fell. The charred remains are all that is left of the flooring of the first floor. At a point m. from the south wall, nearly in the center of the room, and above where the charred fragments of the first floor touched the ground, was another layer of charred remains. Covering this was a hard-packed layer of sand with large masses of slaked adobe embedded in it.
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 6 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 81 was a charred line of fragments of floor material, composed of beams, twigs, and adobe, resting on 40 cm. of sand which had drifted into the room before the upper floor fell. The charred remains are all that is left of the flooring of the first floor. At a point m. from the south wall, nearly in the center of the room, and above where the charred fragments of the first floor touched the ground, was another layer of charred remains. Covering this was a hard-packed layer of sand with large masses of slaked adobe embedded in it. This sand accumulation varied from 3 to 48 cm. in depth. Above this were the uncharred remains of the roof. (PL 2; fig. 2.) The same measurements and observations were made in all parts of the ruin where we excavated. The floors and roofs had fallen of A^O, rq.^__.'iC^rl?^/v//5 irl'. vv«/Ay/\<J4'i//v Fig. 2.—Cross section of house debris, showing stratification. first into the rooms, sometimes en masse, sometimes only the central portions, the corners falling later, as indicated by the broken lines of charred beams and floors. Where the corners fell later they brought large masses of the side walls with them. I believe that a large percentage of the walls fell into the rooms and were afterwards washed away as the mound diminished in height. There is too much adobe in the rooms to be accounted for by only the floors and roofs. All of this accumulation has slaked down and presents a very difficult problem in excavation. The only "lazy" or soft dirt encountered was the sand and a little ash accumulation, and this was often packed very hard by the superimposed weight of the fallen masses above 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 Eth
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