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slabs and contained broken animal bones and a few artifacts. Shallow, 

 round fire pits, occasionally lined with small stone slabs, were also 

 numerous. No evidence of houses nor of postholes could be found, 

 the people evidently living in the open or in skin tents which left no 

 traces. No burials were encountered in either level II or level I, though 

 one fragment of human bone was found in the lowest deposit (I). 



Ceramics 



Pottery is confined entirely to the upper level (III). Not a sherd 

 was found below this horizon. The ceramic remains fall into two 

 main types, (A) thick with coarse gravel tempering, and (B) thin 

 with sand tempering. Type A is similar in all essentials to that already 

 described from Lost Creek and Medicine Creek (Upper Republican). 

 Type B is identical with the thin gray-black pottery already described 

 from surface sites on the Dismal River (Dismal River). Hence 

 further detailed description is unnecessary here. No complete pieces 

 were recovered. All sherds were preserved, 1,155 in all. Only 94 rim 

 sherds were found, and these fall into the following types : 



A. Upper Republican type (60 total). 



a. Rim sherds with marked collar (20). 



1. Collar decorated with closely spaced incised crisscross line (11). 



2. Collar decorated with incised herring bone pattern (8). 



3. Collar without decoration (i). 



b. Rim sherds without collar (40). 



1. Low, slightly flaring rim with swollen, incised lip (14). 



2. Low, slightly flaring rim without incisions (23). 



3. Direct rim with outside bevel (3). 



B. Dismal River type (34 total). 



1. Bowls with direct rim (12). 



2. Low, slightly flaring rim with slightly swollen lip (22). 



The majority of the sherds were sinall, and small vessels were ap- 

 parently typical of both major types. A number of the Upper Republi- 

 can sherds were bored for crack-lacing. The more numerous body 

 sherds fall into the following classification : 



A. Upper Republican type (total 747). 



a. Cord marked (649). 



b. Smooth outer surface (61). 



c. Red stained (or burned) inner surface (34). 



B. Dismal River type (total 314). 



a. Sand tempered (314). 



The occurrence of these two very distinct wares in level III ap- 

 parently indicates that during this period the butte was occasionally 



