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level. Such a surface treatment is not restricted to the areas outlined 

 above but is to be found elsewhere in the Northeastern United States, 

 as well as in Ohio and adjacent States. 



As elsewhere, fabric-marked pottery occurred as one of the early 

 types not only in the John H. Kerr Reservoir area but also in the 

 Phil pot Reservoir area on the Smith River, a tributary of the Dan 

 River. 



Lewis and Kneberg have indicated that this type of surface treat- 

 ment occurred over a rather long time span from the late Archaic and 

 Adena times to late protohistoric horizons where it appears on other 

 than sand-tempered wares. It is known to appear on crushed lime- 

 stone-tempered paste and on crushed sherd (clay-grit) tempered 

 wares. Wlierever it occurs in this section of southern Virginia it is 

 always found on sand-tempered wares. 



CLAEKSVILLE COMBED 



(Pis. 60, (?, e; 61, A; 65, g) 



Paste: Paste characteristics are the same as those outlined for the general 



Clarksville Series. 

 Surface finish : 



Modifications: Both the exterior and interior surfaces were smoothed, 



leaving uneven places on the walls. 

 Decoration: Subsequent to smoothing, the walls were scraped with a 

 comblike object of some sort leaving behind a number of parallel ridges 

 and grooves 3 cm. in width and from 5 cm. to 7 cm. in length. These 

 dimensions designate the length of the stroke used and the width of 

 the instrument employed. The groove width depends upon the width 

 of the blunt teeth of the comblike object and the ridges upon the space 

 between the individual teeth. Ridge width varies from 2 mm. to 4 mm. 

 and groove width from 1 mm. to 2 mm. The stroke used was fairly short 

 and the impressions either crisscross or overlap in a generally diagonal 

 direction over the body of the vessel. This occurred either on the ex- 

 terior alone or on both the exterior and interior of the same vessel. 

 Parallel combing with short strokes is rare but it did occur. Sometimes 

 the lips of vessels are finger-pinched or given a number of diagonal gashes 

 or nicks arranged in a parallel fashion on the outer rim of the lip. 

 Sometimes a number of punctations occur around the neck region. 

 Fobm: 



Rim: Vertical to flaring. No pseudo-rim strip present. 



Lip: Rounded, flattened, flattened and rounded, slightly tapering and 



rounded. 

 Body: OUas of the typical general Woodland type — elliptical or elongate. 



Bowls were medium-shallow with an elongated body. 

 Base: Conoidal in the oUas and rounded in the bowls. 

 Shape: Ollas — see Hyco Cord-Wrapped Paddle. 



Bowls were elongate, 16 cm. wide, 20 cm. long, and 8 cm. deep on the 



average. These forms are rare. 



Combed: This term has been applied to surfaces which bear a number of 



parallel shallow grooves as though created by scraping a comblike object 



across them. This combing effect is not confined exclusively to exteriors but 



does occur on the interior surfaces of both bowls and ollas. 



