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Since the artifacts from the house floor are comparable to those 

 from the rest of the site as a whole, it appears that the bulk of the 

 artifacts from the entire site can be tentatively assigned to occupa- 

 tion by one small village of people over a period of perhaps 10 to 50 

 years. Some adulteration from a light preceramic occupation is to 

 be expected, and there is the possibility that the site may have 

 accumulated a few artifacts from campers either prior to and/or 

 subsequent to the existence of the village. 



CERAMICS 



Most of the pottery types have been previously described, but five 

 important types first recognized by Krieger (1946) have not been 

 described in detail.* One type. Pease Brushed-Incised, previously 

 described by Webb (1948, pp. 110-113), occurred in quantity at 

 Knight's Bluff, but with variations not precisely compatible with 

 Webb's definition. Consequently, before taking up a discussion of 

 the relationships between types within the site, Krieger's five types 

 (Barkman Engraved, Simms Engraved, Nash Neck Banded, Mc- 

 Kinney Plain, and Cass Appliqued) and Pease Brushed-Incised will 

 be described individually, the Pease description being slightly ex- 

 panded beyond Webb's original definition. 



Barkman Engraved 



Paste: 



Method of manufacture: Coiled. 



Temper: Clay grit, rarely with very tiny white particles which seem to 

 be pulverized shell or bone. 



Texture: Granular, with tiny grains. Well fired, homogeneous, and hard. 

 Sherds tend to shatter rather than crumble. 



Color: Core is black or dark gray. Exterior surface is usually dark gray 

 or black, but some specimens range into light shades of orange and bufC. 

 Interior surfaces exhibit the same color variations as the exterior, but 

 may be light in shade when the exterior is dark, or dark when the exte- 

 rior is light. Mottling due to uneven firing is common. 



Surface finish: Well smoothed on both interior and exterior. Exterior is 

 frequently polished. 

 Fobm: 



Wall thickness: Average about 5 mm., with extreme range of 3 to 8 mm. 



Lip: Usually sharply convex and rolled outward slightly. 



•AuTHOE's NOTE. All of these types, as well as type Haley Engraved described later, 

 have now been described In detail by Suhm et al. ; therefore the present descriptions are 

 largely repetitious. There are some differences in detail, though, between the present 

 descriptions and those of the Handbook of Texas Archeology ; in one case, in fact, there is 

 enough difference so that two particular vessels herein identified as type Haley Engraved 

 (pis. 1, a; 5, t) are Illustrated in the Handbook (pi. 65, P, Q) as examples of Taylor 

 Engraved. To have followed the Texas Handbook typology would have required re- 

 analysis of all the artifacts, a procedure that was not feasible after the paper had been 

 set In type. The artifacts from the Texarkana sites were analyzed on the basis of the 

 type descriptions given here, not on those of the Handbook of Texas Archeology. 



