Eiv. Bas. Siir 

 Pap. No. 33] 



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Table 4. — Pottery frequencies at Thomas Riggs and Paul Brave sites 



1 "Rlggs Straight Rim" and "Riggs Flared Rim" from Thomas Riggs are grouped together here. 

 » At Thomas Riggs, these sherds are designated " Aldren Cord Impressed." 

 > At Thomas Riggs, these sherds are designated "Fort Yates Cord Impressed." 



* Several rims of this example at Thomas Riggs are designated "Rlggs Plain," but the small sample from 

 either site does not seem to deserve type status. 



along the Missouri River. The suggestion is made here that these 

 knives were inserted into bone knife handles. 



Siltstone spheres were found at Paul Brave, as well as one circular 

 sandstone concretion. The latter object may have derived from the 

 famed Caimonball formation, which outcrops some distance to the 

 north at the Cannonball River. Specimens similar to the siltstone 

 spheres are reported by Wedel from sites in the vicinity of the 

 Grand River, in South Dakota (Wedel, 1955, pp. 113-114, pi. 58, i-j). 

 A large block of sandstone was used as a mealing slab, and one mano, 

 or handstone, may have been used on such a platform. 



In many respects the objects of worked bone at Paul Brave paralld 

 those at Thomas Riggs, although tliere are some differences. In 

 some classes of artifacts, such as scapula hoes and awls, the number 

 of specimens varies but the relative proportions remain much the same. 



A point may be made concerning the serrated fleshing tools at Paul 

 Brave. Tools of this nature occur in the Dodd and Phillips Ranch 

 sites (39ST30 and 39ST14), in central South Dakota. Both of these 

 sites contain trade goods (Lehmer, 1954, p. 110; figs. 33, a-c, and 49, 

 j-k) . They also occur in late Mandan sites (Will and Spinden, 1906, 

 fig. 7 a-d). In the Central Plains, they are characteristic of early 

 historic and historic complexes, and are rarely if ever found in pre- 

 historic sites (Wedel, 1940, p. 316). Since Paul Brave lacks trade 

 goods it seems that the usefulness of this tool as a late time marker is 

 restricted to the Central Plains. 



