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Color, soot incrustation, brushing on exterior, wavy lines, the way 

 the lines were incised or trailed, distance apart, type of tool used, and 

 general appearances are all alike. 



Ticked line, incised — Type "C" : 



The same holds true for type "C." 



Plain lip, vertical neck that is covered with a series of horizontal 

 parallel lines. All the characteristics as described for the ticked lip 

 group apply here. There is one exception. Two specimens have 

 their lines drawn rather deeply penetrating about half the thickness 

 of the wall itself. 



Punctated. — ^All of the characteristics common to the others are 

 present here. The only difference is in the treatment of the lip itself. 

 In this case the lip is punctated. Punctations appear to have been 

 made by : 



(1) Fabric impressions 



(2) Round blunt tipped tool 



(3) Comma-shaped tool 



(4) Teardrop-shaped tool 



(5) Small grass stem 



(6) Pyramidal-tipped tool 



SHOULDER TREATMENT 



Shoulders of the various vessels were either simple-stamped (figs. 

 41-43) plain-smoothed, or incised (figs. 44, 45), and from the pres- 

 ence of a few black-on-gray painted sherds, it would appear that the 

 shoulders were occasionally painted with crude geometric designs. 



Parts of three medium-sized simple-stamped vessels are miique in 

 that all of the shoulder areas have been punctated with a series of 

 large punctates, ca. 12 mm. in diameter. The punctates on two of 

 the vessels are spaced about equally apart and appear on the upper 

 part of the shoulder. All are fairly deep. Consequently, nodes ap- 

 pear on the interiors of the vessels. The pmictates on the third vessel 

 have been arranged in groups of vertical series, two rows to a series 

 and four or more punctates to a row. The punctates start just at the 

 base of the neck constriction or the top of the shoulder and run down- 

 ward midway onto the body of the vessel (see pi. 20, B, h). The 

 punctates are not placed in a straight line and appear to have been 

 made by tapping the vessel quite firmly, while it was still plastic, with 

 the tip of the finger or some implement of comparable size. 



Shoulder incising appears to be quite popular at the Hosterman site. 

 It consists of various combinations of line-filled triangles (fig. 46), 

 triangles filled with zigzags, or crude herringbone designs. None can 

 be said to be very carefully drawn. Apparently, the potters were 

 not after carefully executed work but rather the effect of the design 



