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pieces. There were no intact jars, but restoration of three from the 

 village site has been possible up to the present. From the summary 

 in table 7, it will be noted that 1,271 sherds (54,5 percent) came from 

 house 1, 623 (26.7 percent) from the pits, and 290 (12.4 percent) 

 from midden 1. Surface finds, mostly from the western part of 

 the site, numbered 135, less than 6 percent of the total. 



The pottery, as judged from our sample, differs in nearly all respects 

 from that at the Renner site. Sherds vary considerably in color, with 

 grays predominant; brown, buff, and orange-buff also occur. Paste 

 is generally gray, smooth and fine in texture, and fresh breaks have 

 a flaky rather than granular appearance. Hardness ranges from 2 

 to nearly 4, but few of the pieces tested exceed 3. The ware is more 

 compact and far less readily affected by water than the Renner 

 pottery. Surfaces, sometimes well smoothed and polished, are almost 

 invariably pitted, and most sherds would perhaps be classed as hole- 

 tempered. Pitting and cavities are both due, I believe, to leaching of 

 particles of crushed shell by ground water and soil acids. The holes 

 are always thin, flat, and angular, resembling in every respect those 

 produced experimentally by immersing part of a thickly shell tem- 

 pered sherd in dilute hydrochloric acid. On the basis of these experi- 

 ments and observations, I have classed as shell-tempered the sherds 

 containing holes as well as those in which shell fragments remain. 

 Except in pit 8, grit tempering was comparatively scarce; it occurs, 

 occasionally in conjunction with shell, in less than 11 percent of the 

 total. 



