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ciated with this body (pis. 3, 5, 5). Characteristic is a flat lip, usually 

 sloping inward; a slightly bulging rim with a shallow groove or 

 channel on the inside (fig. 4, d-f) and cross-hatched incisions or 

 edentate rocker marks on the outside, bordered on the lower margin 

 by circular, elliptical, hemiconical, or annular punch marks; a plain, 

 usually smoothed and sometimes semipolished neck, 4 to 13 cm, wide, 

 delimited at the bottom by a single incised line ; and a body covered 

 with closely set bands of vertical edentate rocker impressions. Many 

 of these jars were of large size. That from which came the sherd 

 shown in pi. 3, 5, which includes about half the rim, had an exterior 

 diameter at the mouth of about 29-30 cm., and the m.aximum body 

 diameter is estimated at 32 to 35 cm. The shape of the body and base 

 is unknown, but if similar to Mr. Shippee's specimen, as is not 

 improbable, the original height may have been over 40 cm. There 

 are sherds from several others that must have approached these 

 dimensions, though smaller ones were probably much more common. 

 These were presumably intended for culinary use, since, like those of 

 preceding types, the sherds often have a coating of charred organic 

 matter on their inner surfaces. 



Sherds in this group vary with regard to technological details. 

 In the matter of paste, a dark gray color predominates, but often the 

 surfaces have been fired to a lighter brown, buff, or reddish color, 

 the latter hue sometimes extending entirely through the sherds. The 

 clay seems to be somewhat more compact than in the cord-roughened 

 pieces, but in the larger vessel fragments especially it shows a like 

 tendency to crumble when wet. Inclusions of quartz, feldspar, and 

 perhaps other substances are a little finer in texture and less abundant, 

 again with possible exception of the sherds from very large pots. 

 Surfaces, though not uncommonly checked or crackled, are a little 

 more carefully finished. Most of these sherds, moreover, are thinner, 

 averaging less than 8 mm. in thickness. 



Only one other vessel shape definitely attributable to this ware is 

 evidenced by our collections, and this is probably only a variant of 

 the form already indicated. In one specimen, which unfortunately 

 lacks the base and much of the body, the remaining pieces of rim and 

 upperbody indicate a large jar with contracting mouth. The lip is 

 rounded, and rocker markings begin on the exterior immediately 

 below the lip. Such a jar may be visualized if one imagines that a 

 vessel of the type described immediately above were cut off along the 

 incised line which normally separates the plain neck zone from the 

 decorated body. 



The finest pottery type, illustrated by the small jar in pi. 8, «, 

 and figure 4, h^ shares many of the characteristics of the preceding, 

 especially in regard to decorative techniques and motifs. The spec- 

 imen in question is thin-walled and much harder (ca. 5) than the 



