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Table 5. — Comparison of traits at Paul Brave and Thomas Riggs sites 



Traits 



Thomas Riggs 



I. Villages: 



Long-rectangular houses 



Houses arranged in streets 



Open village 



Exterior cache pits 



Central plaza 



II. Houses: 



Built in shallow pit. _. 



Entrance to southwest 



Offset fireplace 



Center posts in house midline. 



Intermediate rows of posts 



Closely spaced wall posts 



House ends open 



Trench in house rear 



Earth ramp at entrance. 



House walls not parallel 



Braced posts 



Interior, bell-shaped pits 



III. Pottery (cf. table 4): 



Riggs Plain... 



Riggs Cross-Hatched 



Riggs Incised 



Riggs Pinched 



Riggs Punctate 



Fort Yates Cord Impressed 



Fort Yates Cross-Hatched 



Unnamed, Cord Impressed 



XTnclassified... 



Example A 



Example B 



Example C 



Example D 



Twelve Mile Black on Gray... 



Smoothed or plain 



Simple-stamped 



Cord-roughened.. 



Check-stamped 



Incised or trailed 



Unclassified 



IV. Miscellaneous objects of baked clay: 



Animal efBgies 



Bead 



Shaped item 



Pipes 



V. Work in stone: 



Projectile points 



NAbl 



NAb2 



NBa 



NBal 



NBb 



NBbl 



SCbl 



Drills. 



Expanding base 



Straigbt-shafted 



End scrapers 



Flaked on upper surface 



Upper surface not flaked 



Broad knives 



NAbl 



NAb2 



NAb2, asymmetrical 



NE 



Fragments 



Narrow knives 



NAa 



NAb2 



Fragments 



Choppers 



Flake knives 



Grooved mauls 



Full groove 



Three-quarter groove 



Sides grooved 



Fragments 



Axes 



Celts 



Manos, or handstones 



Mealing slabs or metates 



Hammers tones 



55 



149 



21 



34 



135 



5 



18 



X 



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