Feature 132
Feature 132 was a house-in-pit located at the center of the property. This house was oval in shape, with a long axis orientation of 103· east of north. The structure was 5.45 m long and 2.30 m wide, with a total area of 12.535 square meters. Evidence of wall construction was minimal . Haury (1976) classified similar houses as S-1. The entryway had parallel sides and was centered on the southern side of the house. The width of the entry was 1.50 m and the length was 1.37 m.
Feature 132 was the only structure with a schist riser in the entry. The entrance also might have been lined with schist slabs, as several slabs were located along the southern and western edges. A construction trench with five postholes was noted on the western side of the entrance. One posthole was recorded at the entry floor juncture on the east side at a point where theconstruction trench was not evident.The floor consisted of prepared caliche plaster that was 0.05 m higher at the edges than in the center. This prepared surface was somewhat uneven and burned, with no evidence of replastering. Several burned beams and posts were recorded.
The floor was disturbed in several places by rodents. Roof fall was mixed in the fill above the floor, consisting of large amounts of burned reddish adobe material in a grayish brown ashy matrix with charcoal flecks. Some of the pieces of adobe had a flat smoothed surface and probably represented the inside surface of either the wall or roof. This roof and wall fall was continuous across the floor. Two samples of carbonized grasses were collected from this matrix.The hearth was basin shaped with gently sloping sides, and was 0.20 m in diameter and 0.10 m deep. The hearth was plastered and well fired, with some severe cracks. Erosion of the top of the hearth had exposed a layer of replastering. There was no evidence of a collar. The hearth was slightly off-set 0.35 m to the west of the center of the entry.Twenty nine interior postholes were identified, but did not appear to have been arranged in an obvious spatial pattern. The postholes were all circular and averaged 0.09 m in diameter and 0.10 m in depth. Evidence of exterior postholes and a wall trench was observed, but no actual wall construction was discernible.
Several burned beams were encountered in the roof fall above the floor, and two additional beams were in contact with the floor. Five of the postholes contained burned posts. Burned daub was also part of the roof fall. Floor artifacts were not numerous and were located around the edges of the floor.
These factors suggested that the structure was intentionally abandoned and burned. Feature 132 was approximately 6.0 m from Feature 138. a subrectangular pithouse, which was situated 0.02 m above Feature 132.