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found in place ; it is probable, however, that adequate samples for 

 testing from Area A are on hand. There seems to be little reason to 

 doubt that the occupations at Areas A and B are substantially contem- 

 poraneous. Fragments of Angostura points have been found on the 

 surface of the eroded edge of Area B, and the deposits in both areas 

 have yielded an abundance of very thin flakes of fine-grained quartzite 

 which are apparently the byproducts of the manufacture of these 

 points. 



During a period of approximately three weeks, tests made previ- 

 ously in two pottery sites in the reservoir were extended. Several 

 days were spent at 39FA23, rather extensively trenched in 1948 and 

 1949. This site, situated on Horsehead Creek, not far from 39FA65, 

 had produced evidence of a series of brief, intermittent occupations, 

 possibly by hunting parties of agricultural people from settled com- 

 munities to the east or south. No evidences of structures had been 

 found, but there were numerous unprepared hearths scattered through 

 the area of occupation. The investigations in 1950 uncovered seven 

 new hearths and added materially to the artifact collection. The site 

 has yielded pottery in relatively abundant quantities. Vessels appear 

 to be globular with rounded shoulders and have simple flaring rims, 

 which are undecorated or are decorated only on the lip or at the lip- 

 outer rim juncture. Lip decorations are incised; in the few instances 

 where the rim has been modified adjacent to the lip that was done by 

 impressing. Body sherds are plain or, more often, stamped with a 

 paddle wrapped with a fibrous material which sometimes, but prob- 

 ably not invariably, was loosely twisted. Frequently the stamping 

 extends to the full height of the rim. There are perhaps a few simple- 

 stamped sherds in the collection. Other artifacts include stemmed 

 and triangular points, the latter both side-notched and plain ; plano- 

 convex end scrapers ; drills ; large blades ; and rare bone artifacts. 

 Materials utilized for the chipped-stone objects include chalcedony, 

 chert, jasper, and fine-grained quartzite. There is a suggestion, in 

 pottery and point differences at least, that more than one cultural 

 entity was involved in the repeated occupations of this site. The pre- 

 dominant pottery does not appear to be identical to that of any com- 

 plex defined to date, but its general character is certainly not incon- 

 gruous with an assignment to the middle ceramic horizon of the 

 Plains and, more specifically, is suggestive of certain of the pottery 

 associated with the Upper Republican complex to the south. 



Site 39FA83 is a camp site on a low terrace on the left side of 

 Horsehead Creek, where some trenching had been done in 1949. Dur- 

 ing two weeks in the spring of 1950 the earlier excavations were con- 



