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with a chalky feel, and tool marks are frequently visible. The paste 

 is heavily tempered with small- to medium-sized particles of clay, 

 sometimes with the addition of bone fragments, and cores are usually 

 darker than surfaces. Wall thickness ranges from 6 to 13 mm., with 

 an average near 9 mm. Principal vessel shape, as indicated by 

 sherds, is a large, barrel-shaped or cylindrical form with a flat, 

 round base, or rarely with a square base. Juncture of the base and 

 wall is often reinforced on the interior; the exterior juncture forms 

 a sharp angle. Rims are vertical to slightly incurved or outcurved, 

 and lips may be flattened (39.6 percent) or convex (60.4 percent). 



Other than the 813 specimens of Bay town-like (including the com- 

 plete vessels), there are only 24 sherds and 1 complete vessel of 

 Lower Mississippi types. The vessel (pi. 4, &), from burial No. 6, 

 and 21 of the sherds (pi. 10) are of the type Coles Creek Incised 

 (Ford, 1951, pp. 74-76), 2 sherds (pi. 10, /) have been tentatively 

 identified as Marksville Incised (Ford and Willey, 1940, p. 78), and 

 1 sherd (pi. 10, e) is thought to be of the type Evansville Punc- 

 tated (Phillips, Ford, and Griffin, 1951, pp. 90-91). All of these are 

 of Baytown-like paste, but walls tend to be thinner and paste some- 

 what harder than in most of the Baytown-like sherds. Some of the 

 plain sherds classified as Baytown-like undoubtedly came from the 

 bodies of vessels with decorations such as these on the rims. 



A total of 290 sherds was classified as Caddoan, although only 9 of 

 them could be definitely identified as to type. The identified types 

 are Barkman Engraved, Simms Engraved, Pease Brushed-Incised, 

 Cass Appliqued, Pennington Punctated-Incised, Crockett Curvilinear 

 Incised, and Plolly (or Spiro) Fine Engraved. There are 3 sherds 

 of Barkman, 1 sherd each of the others. 



One fragment of a long-stemmed, thin-walled clay pipe (pi. 11, a) 

 was found. 



Of the various pottery types present, only Baytown-like and Coles 

 Creek Incised can be designated as resident types of the principal 

 occupation with any degree of certainty. This does not mean, how- 

 ever, that none of the other types are resident ; in fact, the mere pres- 

 ence of sherds that are probably Marksville Incised and Evansville 

 Punctated so far from their normal centers of distribution suggests 

 direct affiliation with Baytown-like and Coles Creek Incised, which 

 are also Lower Mississippi types of the Baytown Period and also 

 strangers in the Caddoan Area. As pointed out above, the relation- 

 ship of the Caddoan pottery to the Lower Mississippi occupation is 

 not clear. It may be trade material in a basically Lower Mississippi 

 component, or it may represent an entirely different occupation of 

 the site — either before or after occupation by the Lower IMississippi 

 affiliates. 



