pLp. N^f; sIjT HOSTERMAN site — MILLER 165 



Color: Color varies from a light tan, buff, and gray, and often a sooty 

 black. Fire clouds are common on the lighter colored sherds. Cross 

 section may be the same as the surface or it may have a darker center. 

 SuBFACE FINISH : In most cases the paddle was used on the exterior surface during 

 manufacture. It was wrapped with some sort of vegetal fiber or gut or was 

 roughly carved. The overall design of parallel grooves was repeated, the 

 application of the paddle imparting grooves and lands. Grooves measure 

 roughly 3 mm. in width by 15 or more mm. in length. The lands are round 

 to round pointed and the grooves are U-shaped in cross section and somewhat 

 rounded in general shape. Usually the stamping is vertical to the lip but 

 there are rare eases when the stamping occurs on a slight diagonal to the 

 Up. The initial stamped design apparently covered the complete exterior 

 surface of the vessel but this was either completely eradicated through sub- 

 sequent smoothing or partially obliterated by brushing. Interior surfaces 

 may be roughly smoothed or brushed. Occasionally one appears to have been 

 semiburnished by having been rubbed with a pebble or some other hard sub- 

 stance. When brushing occurred interiorly it was always applied horizontally 

 to the main axis of the vessel and parallel to the lip. Decoration varies with 

 the component types. Decoration of lips is frequent. Decoration on shoulders 

 consists of series of parallel lines arranged in opposition to each other, in 

 contiguous plats forming a broad continuous band around the vessel. Bases 

 were imtreated except for the initial surface treatment, 



DETAILED STUDY OF BODY SHERDS 



During the process of manufacture some sort of paddle was applied 

 to the outside of the vessel. It was either carved with a series of shal- 

 low parallel ridges or wrapped with narrow strips of leather, the 

 results of which show up as a series of shallow parallel lands and 

 troughs that cover practically the entire outside of the vessel. Usually 

 these impressions run vertically, but over the base of the vessel they 

 may overlap and crisscross. Such treatment has been described as 

 "simple-stamping." Wares impressed with a carved paddle had more 

 regular impressions and shoAV a uniformity of depth, whereas the 

 leather wrappings were not as regularly placed and there was some 

 variation in the overall depth and width of the impressions. 



Plain wares are those whose exterior surfaces were smoothed over 

 completely so as to eradicate any previous surface treatment. Some 

 were subsequently rubbed, sometimes with a small stone, or a similar 

 object, to impart a pseudopolish or burnish. Vessels treated in this 

 way were much smoother than those that were simply smoothed by 

 hand. 



Decorations of incised elements were confined to various portions 

 of the vessel : the lip, rim, or shoulder area. They were confined to 

 zones around these areas. Decorations that had repetitious elements 

 within the zone have been called "line block" in this report. There is 

 wide variation as to the metliod of rendition, the width of the ele- 

 ments themselves, and the placement of the designs. Some decorations 



