NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA HAURY AND HARGRAVE 6l 



more porous structural material on the inner side was removed, 

 leaving the object a mere shell ^ inch thick. The edges are trimmed 

 down and smoothed well to the inner side of the antler. The shell 

 bears evidence of ii perforations which vary from i to f inch in 

 diameter and which are placed at more or less regular intervals length- 

 wise along the object. 



OBJECTS OF SHELL 



Ornaments of sea shells were apparently not plentiful in pueblos of 

 the Little Colorado drainage occupied in immediate pre-Spanish times, 

 for the collection from Pinedale is sparse indeed. The genera repre- 

 sented are : Glycymeris, Olivella, Conns, and Turrltella. 



POTTERY 



The few complete vessels and the great quantity of sherds recovered 

 from the Pinedale ruin provide much needed data concerning certain 

 aspects of the Silver Creek drainage pottery complex. It will be 

 recalled that at Showlow, two levels of occupation existed and that 

 the pottery types from the levels differed. The great mass of the 

 Pinedale material is not analogous to the pottery of either of the 

 Showlow levels, but nevertheless small proportions show unmistakable 

 affinity with both. Hence, it is inferred that the period of greatest 

 productivity at Pinedale was intermediate in relation to the two stages 

 found in the former ruin. This relation was strongly suggested by a 

 cursory test in the refuse heap where the supposedly later types were 

 found to overlay the decorated orange-red phase of pottery recog- 

 nized in the lower level at Showlow. Corroborative evidence was sub- 

 sequently obtained from datable charcoal with which the dominant 

 Pinedale types were associated. This association was provided by the 

 refuse-filled room of test i and the kiva, both of which contained an 

 abundance of sherds and ample charcoal. No doubt exists, therefore, 

 as to the exact position of the Pinedale pottery in the sequence of 

 development supplied by the two ruins. 



As has already been mentioned, the most recent date from room 2, 

 test I, is 1286, and from the kiva about 1330, although the largest 

 timbers of the latter gave earlier dates. Generally speaking, the 

 construction period of these two chambers was nearly 100 years earlier 

 than the last building period at Showlow. This would also place a 

 corresponding difference of time on the pottery. To the lower level 

 at Showlow we have tentatively given 1204 as the most recent date, 

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