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further bordered by a row of shallow punch marks (pi. 7, ^, m). The 

 sherd in pi. 7, i,' superficially resembling some of the finer cord- 

 roughened pieces, is actually dentate stamped. The toothed stamps 

 used to produce these impressions, like the tools which left the curved 

 rocker marks, are unknown.'^ Perhaps they were of wood or some 

 other perishable material. At any rate, objects that could have been 

 so used are entirely lacking in our collections from the site. 



There is no trace of handles, lugs, tabs, or effigies on any of the 

 sherds. Two fragments have conically drilled holes near a fractured 

 edge, possibly to receive a thong for mending a broken vessel. 



Table 3. — Analysis of hody sherds according to surface treatment, Renner site 



Description 



0-9" 



Pits 



Depth 

 ? 



Totals 



Plain, undecorated 



Rocker-marked 



Cord-roughened 



Dentate stamp 



Alternate smooth and rough areas: 



Rocker-roughened 



Dentate stamp 



Punctate 



Brushed (?) 



Roughened; technique uncertain 



Incised line separating plain neck (?; from 



rockered body 



Plain, vrith incised line; probably frag- 

 ment of preceding 



Totals 



120 



42 







1 



1 

 2 

 6 

 



4 



5 

 3 



872 



349 



7 



4 



7 

 13 

 29 



1 

 12 



228 



88 



9 



1 



2 

 8 

 7 

 

 3 



366 



447 



234 



5 



3 



1 



12 

 18 



1 



102 



41 



1 









 2 

 6 

 

 



6 



3 



161 



1,769 



754 

 22 



2,827 



There seems no good reason to doubt that all these pottery types and 

 techniques were known and in use at the same time. Neitlier vertical 

 nor areal distributions indicate any significant concentration of a 

 particular type. Tables 2 and 3 indicate that most of the sherds came 

 out of pits and from the 9-18 inch level, but so did the bulk of the 

 artifacts generally. The smaller number in the 0-9 inch zone and on 

 the surface can probably be attributed to the effects of long cultivation 

 and repeated turning over of the soil, with a consequent destruction 

 of sherds and the picking up of many by collectors. 



During laboratory anatysis preparatory to cataloging, sherds were 

 found that, while coming from different squares, levels, or pits, fitted 

 together or else matched so closely in all details as to be, almost cer- 

 tainly, from the same pots. This is expectable since the fragments of 

 a broken vessel v/ould often become widely scattered over a village site 

 and its immediate vicinity. In table 4 is given a partial list of such 



'But see p. 100 below, under the description of the Trowbridge site. 

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