BULLETIN 183, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



1939, 1 was able to examine very briefly a portion of the Fulton County, 

 111., collections at the University of Chicago. This cursory examina- 

 tion strengthened an earlier impression concerning the close similarity 

 between materials from the Kenner site and those from certain Illinois 

 sites. In table 11 the column headed "Illinois Hopewell" is a composite 

 based on the published analyses of various mound and village sites 

 ascribed by Cole and Deuel (1937, p. 202) to the Ogden-Fettie focus 

 of the Hopewellian phase.^' 



The pottery types set up for Fulton County Hopewellian sites (Cole 

 and Deuel, 1937, p. 39ff) apparently parallel those at Renner, but 

 they are not identical. With regard to paste, color, tempering, low 

 resistance to moisture, and other technologic details, the prevalent 

 ware at Renner conforms to Cole and Deuel's type 2 (1937, p. 40), 

 but type 2 rim decorations (1937, fig. 6) are comparatively rare in 

 our Renner site collections, and there is no evidence whatever of trun- 

 cated conoidal vessel bases. Type 3 in Fulton County — further des- 

 ignated as "polished collar and channel" (1937, p. 42) — seems to be 

 virtually identical with some of the thinner harder better made pieces 

 from Renner. In both localities this ware consists of fine, compact, 

 gray paste tempered with whitish grit; it does not crumble readily, 

 and undecorated surfaces are frequently more or less polished. The 

 cross-hatched rims, with a line of punch marks along the lower mar- 

 gin and a plain polished collar or neck zone, are very plentiful at 

 Renner. A single body sherd from Fulton County (1937, p. 47) is 

 described as "ornamented in alternate area style, with the decorated 

 portion filled with rocked rouletting." This teclinique occurs on 

 several specimens from Renner (see pis. 7, 8) . Owing to the limited 

 amounts of this ware reported from Fulton County it is impossible 

 to determine vessel forms or to make further detailed comparisons 

 with Renner. 



A single sherd of incised over cord-roughening, similar to Cole and 

 Deuel's type 1, was found at Renner (pi. 7, h). 



Disregarding types, we may note that nearly every pottery element 

 found at Renner is also present in the Fulton County Hopewellian 



" I have used the site analyses here, in preference to the general list of Hopewellian 

 diagnostic traits (Cole and Deuel, 1937. p. 222), for several reasons. In the first plnoe, 25 

 of the 32 diagnostics are reported only from burial mounds, and fully half of tbese could not 

 he expected to occur in a village site. The site analyses show that of the 32 diagnostics, 

 four village sites included only the following number each of diagnostic elements : F^'49, 6 

 elements ; F^88, 1 ; F^-574. 4 ; Tn, 4. The only diagnostic found in all four village sites is 

 the type pottery, with stemmed projectile points and flake knives present in three of the 

 four. Moreover, the detailed analyses indicate the presence of a number of additional ele- 

 ments that, though evidently not regarded as dinguostic, may prove of some significance in 

 determining the nature of the Hopewellian village complex. It is among these presumably 

 nondiagnostic elements, as well as among tiie four or five diagnostics found in the village 

 sites, that the Renner materials have interesting parallels. The similarities are brought out 

 in the further discussion above. 



