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Figure 44. — Line-block design on shoulder area, Hosterman site. 



vary as to the width and distance they may protrude. Luglike projec- 

 tions may vary from 2 to 4 or more to a vessel. They appear to be 

 evenly spaced around the vessel from what we can determine from the 

 sherds. 



One lug handle, on specimen No. 3372/16, is unique in that it be- 

 came limp shortly after it was fashioned onto the vessel and dropped 

 down onto the neck of the vessel forming a very tenuous joint 

 with it. It appears to have been unintentional but whether it was or 

 not it would appear to function as an evolutionary trend in explain- 

 ing the formation of a type of strap handle from the lug type. 



VESSEL SHAPES 



Vessel shapes appear to lean to globular with vertical and slightly 

 everted necks, rounded shoulders and bases, with the shoulders dec- 

 orated with incised motifs and the necks covered with a series of 

 incised horizontal parallel lines. This type of vessel shape is rather 

 widespread for it also occurs at the Swan Creek site (39WW7), 

 Steamboat Creek site (39P01), and the Four Bears site (39DW1), 



