. Bulletin. Ethnology. 66 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 170 Upper drill sands (a). Brown sandy till (q) lying on lop ol pose drill sond Cordon somplt M-534 0 I I i i_ Figure 21.—Northwest Platform. North-south profile at center of structure. banded purple, white and brown floors (i) which are the equivalent to the "white sandy floor series" noted elsewhere in Complex A. Di- rectly upon the (m) floors was built the first stage of the Northwest Platform consisting of a fill or hearting of yellow sandy clay (1) with the sloping sides painted, as in the case of the Northeast Platfo
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 66 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 170 Upper drill sands (a). Brown sandy till (q) lying on lop ol pose drill sond Cordon somplt M-534 0 I I i i_ Figure 21.—Northwest Platform. North-south profile at center of structure. banded purple, white and brown floors (i) which are the equivalent to the "white sandy floor series" noted elsewhere in Complex A. Di- rectly upon the (m) floors was built the first stage of the Northwest Platform consisting of a fill or hearting of yellow sandy clay (1) with the sloping sides painted, as in the case of the Northeast Platform, with a series of very thin yellow clay washes (j). After the platform was built the white sandy floor series (i) were laid down over the Court area, and here, as elsewhere, run up to the toe of the various structures. As these floors were renewed from time to time, sometimes by changing the colors (white, purple and brown are represented here), the platform facings (j) were also renewed. The final stage of the (i) floors is marked by a thin, though definite, layer of crushed green serpentine. This serpentine layer was noted elsewhere (surfacing of layer (i) in figure 20). A major alteration of the area was now undertaken with the deposi- tion of a thick layer of heavy mottled red and yellow clay fill (g) which came up to the surface of the platform formed by the (1) fill. The platform was now increased in height about 8 inches by adding a layer of brown clay (k), and running up against the face of this clay fill which was painted with a yellow wash are the old-rose floor series (f). The (f) floors, which are 3 to 4 inches thick, show the following sequence of layers: white (earliest), tan, pink or rose, white (latest). This second stage platform consisted, as may be seen in figure 20, of a very low elevation, much lower in fact than the equivalent platform stage in the east half of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may h
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