pS. ■^o.' 35]'' HOSTERMAN SITE — MILLER 167 



of the right-hand twist. Diameters varied somewhat, even on the same 

 vessel ; but on the average it measured around 1 mm. 



In the group of body sherds there were several whose exterior sur- 

 faces were extra rough. When a positive impression was made of this 

 treatment, with the aid of plastic clay, it was found that some sort of 

 coarse fabric had been used. This fabric was not applied flat but was 

 apparently wadded up and then applied, hence the term "fabric- 

 impressed." On a few sherds we found that a coarse mat impression 

 covered very limited portions of the exterior surface. These sherds 

 were small and we could not determine how extensively this technique 

 had been used. 



We noted that in several instances corncobs had been used to 

 roughen the exterior surfaces of vessels. This practice was apparently 

 not common, for we found only a limited number of sherds treated in 

 this fashion. 



Among the rare forms were a small number of plain sherds that were 

 from scattered positions within the site. They were of a curious green 

 color, more of a bile green, on the exterior, which seemed to go through 

 the entire thickness of the wall. They were made of a hard and 

 homogeneous paste, and their exteriors were very carefully smoothed. 

 The tliickness of each is uniform, ranging from 1.5 mm. to 3.0 mm. 

 We could not determine their source or where they would fit into the 

 general picture. 



LIP TREATMENT 



Lips were of many forms: they were simple-rounded ^ -flattened, 

 rounded and -flattened, inward heveled, outward teveled, reinforced 

 and heveled, reinforced and rounded, and even folded (see lip profiles, 

 figs. 35 and 36). 



Lips had been given several types of treatments. They were 

 smoothed or left plain; ticked or "tooled" in various ways with dif- 

 ferent size sticks or other tools or ticked by having sections of cords 

 impressed across them; incised by having herringbone designs 

 drawn across them; punctated in various manners; indented by 

 pinching the unfired clay into undulations or indentations ; impressed 

 with a number of twisted cord elements running parallel with the lip ; 

 given a wavy effect by pressure of the finger on either side of the lip ; 

 or given the stab-and-drag treatment with a rounded, pointed, or 

 squared pointed implement resulting in a line of shallow punctations. 



Lips that were punctated, in some instances in the literature were 

 referred to as "tool impressed," impressed with a rounded, squared, or 

 pyramidal pointed stick; the size and the shape of the impression 

 depending on the actual outline of the tool and the amount of pressure 

 used to bring about this effect. Some impressions were narrow, others 



