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trast to the situation in the later houses, where the posts were con- 

 centrated along the two long sides. A roof construction differing 

 from that of the circular houses is suggested by the fact that single 

 or double rows of posts commonly lay on or parallel to the long axis 

 of the structure. 



Cache pits were not abundant within the houses, and those which 

 were found there were usually relatively small. Outside cache pits 

 were usually larger and were ordinarily bell-shaped. 



Differences in artifacts inventories were associated with the differ- 

 ent classes of houses. The pottery has been described by Lehmer 

 (1951). With the latest houses, those of circular form, was asso- 

 ciated simple-stamped pottery with rounded shoulders and rather 

 high, slightly curved rims which were usually thickened by the appli- 

 cation of a fillet on the portion adjoining the lip. The area above the 

 rim-body juncture was commonly brushed, and decoration is usually 

 confined to the fillet, where it consists either of cord impressions or 

 of incisions or impressions made with tools of various kinds. One 

 common rim treatment is a pinching which has produced a sinuous 

 appearance when the vessel is viewed from above. Lehmer has dis- 

 tinguished four types in this late-component pottery, all of which he 

 has assigned to a larger group which he has named Stanley ware. 

 This pottery resembles closely that which is found in numerous sites 

 scattered along the Missouri River from the vicinity of Pierre at 

 least as far upstream as the vicinity of Mobridge. Some of these sites 

 have been more or less surely identified with the Arikara of the late 

 eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Thus, the Leavenworth 

 site (39CO9), a few miles above the Grand River, is without doubt 

 the double Arikara village visited by Lewis and Clark and other 

 travelers in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, while it seems 

 probable the Tolton site (39ST25), approximately three miles below 

 the mouth of the Cheyenne River, is one of the Arikara villages visited 

 by Truteau in 1795. 



The earlier pottery of the Dodd site is plain or cord -marked and 

 characterized by simple, collared, or S-shaped rims. To a large extent, 

 the types defined by Lehmer occur in both of the earlier components 

 but there are changes in popularity and in the later Anderson focus 

 component cord-impressed decoration largely replaces the incised 

 decoration of the earlier Monroe focus component. 



There are differences in the inventories of other artifacts which 

 correlate with the differences in architecture and pottery. These can- 

 not be detailed here, but examples are the presence only in the late 

 Stanley focus component of toothed metapodial fleshers, elk-antler 



