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decoration or a step in the initial fashioning of the vessel. It was 

 always applied after the vessel had received its initial textile or 

 fabric treatment when it occurs on the exterior of vessels. When 

 present it occurs in a series of narrow, shallow, parallel grooves that 

 obliterate the underlying fabric impression and cover varying sized 

 areas. It is suspected that this treatment resulted from the use of 

 serrated stone or bone tools. Combing occurs on the interiors of 

 vessels, so with tliis in mind combing should not be classed as a form 

 of decoration. 



Eecapitulating we can say that the earliest pottery, the Hyco Series, 

 was introduced during late Archaic and Early Woodland times in the 

 form of a plain ware out of which developed a fabric-marked ware. 

 This in turn evolved into three new wares: net-impressed, cord- 

 wrapped-paddle, and textile-impressed. 



Shortly thereafter there was a bloodless invasion of another group 

 of people who introduced the Clarksville Series resulting in a change 

 in the nature of the paste and firing methods. The textile-impressed 

 ware introduced during the early Woodland phase now became the 

 dominant ware, and it was trailed by fabric-marked with cord- 

 wrapped-paddle bringing up the rear. Not long thereafter the tech- 

 nique of combing or brushing was introduced and plain ware was 

 manufactured only sparingly. 



By Late Woodland times the textile-impressed still remained the 

 dominant form and fabric-marked was manufactured to a limited 

 extent. Cord-wrapped paddle disappeared almost completely and 

 a new form, corncob-impressed was beginning to make its appear- 

 ance when the area was abandoned by the aborigines. By the time 

 the first white settlers came into the valleys of the Dan and Roanoke, 

 in the vicinity of the basin, it was devoid of Indian villages. 



CONCLUSIONS 



Early Man, who had arrived in the New World during the Pleisto- 

 cene and after the last of the great glaciers, preyed on the larger ani- 

 mals that occupied this contment. Not only did he hunt the mammoth 

 but the bison, camel, and horse, as well. 



During the close of the Pleistocene a climatic change was effected 

 which brought with it a gradual diminution of the floral content, 

 which in turn resulted in the extinction of the larger of these fauna! 

 forms. It disturbed the fundamental balance of nature bringing 

 about an increased competition not only between groups of humans but 

 between the remaining animal life. 



As man increased in numbers and the sources of food supplies be- 

 came scarcer, competition grew keener and the favorable areas became 

 more noticeable and desirable. This condition caused men to aline 

 themselves against their common competitors bringing into formation 



