Extent of Dump Investigation
The nine trenches were carried to such a depth that no more
shards or charcoal were found at the bottom through three Sections, or
eighteen feet, from north to south. At that point it was apparent that
there would not be time to proceed much farther into the dump during
the season, so work was concentrated on Trenches 2, 4 and 6, and all
others in Section 4 were abandoned. In the four sections the outline
and slope of the various strata of the three periods, Basket Maker III,
Pueblo I, and Pueblo II, can be drawn from the shard data. No datable
charcoal was found in the dump, hence the dates for the strata must be
inferential, from the dates on the house structures.
