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A include the upper portion of the clay occupation stratum. The 

 southern face of the cut, including the uppermost portion of the 

 refuse heap, had been removed to expose skeleton B i prior to com- 

 pleting the diagram. Levels B include the lower portion of the clay 

 occupation level and the upper portion of the southern dump heap. 

 Levels C, the very bottom of the clay occupation level and the middle 

 of the dump heap. Levels D include the lowest portion of the dump. 

 With the exception of this southern polychrome dump heap, most of 

 the remainder of levels C, and all of levels D, were devoid of artifacts 

 except in the extreme northern portion where a very few bichrome 

 sherds were encountered beneath the sand stratum (level 8, fig. 6). 

 These will be discussed separately. 



Levels A contained a large amount of plain cooking ware of a 

 red brown to blackish gray color. The vessels were fairly large, in- 

 cluding direct bowls and pots with flaring necks and vertical handles. 

 These handles are either round or flat in cross-section and, in a few 

 cases, have a monkey head lug on the bend. Rounded, flat and 

 dimpled bases and a few conical and round hollow feet occur. There 

 are also some highly polished thin sherds tan or buff in color. The 

 upper portion of B contained the same types but in the lower portions 

 crudely painted ware superseded the plain cooking ware. In C and D 

 plain cooking ware was very scarce except for a few very thick 

 gray and brown sherds and some vertical strap handles. A portion of 

 a thick, plain tray wdth horizontal handles occurs in C, and a plain 

 annular base in D. Similar cooking ware but decorated with blotchy 

 red or brown designs on neck and body occurs in A. These designs 

 are usually rayed circles, criss-cross lines, and more or less irregular 

 blotches. In B this type supersedes the plain ware in the lower levels. 

 A squat, swollen pot form with flaring neck and vertical handles is 

 characteristic. These are better made than in A, and the dull red, 

 criss-cross line decoration on a lighter background sometimes sug- 

 gests negative painting. This type also predominates in both C and 

 D where undecorated domestic wares are rare. Plain incised ware 

 is lacking in all levels. From both A and B levels came a few similar 

 pot fragments in which the neck of the vessel is also incised with 

 delicate, wavy, vertical lines and where the handle is replaced by small 

 tripartite adornos. This variant of the swollen, simply-painted pot is 

 more numerous in the lower levels, i. e., C and D. In D there is some 

 blending of this type with the Bold Geometric, monkey-handled ware. 

 Three sherds from thick-walled, vertical vases have a slip and painted 

 designs with a band of heavily incised decoration around the upper 



