IS.'rfo.'le/' HICKEY SITE — CALDWELL, MADISON, GOLDEN 287 



B. Bison metapodial flesher, split segment of shaft, distal portion beveled to a 

 broad, thin bit (39LM4-190) (pi. 44, /) . 



Length: 154.0 mm. 

 Width'.ZQ.Q mm. 

 Thickness: 38.3 mm. 



C. Pottery tool or quill flattener (fragmentary), split section of bison rib with 

 rounded end, cancellous tissue partially smoothed (39LM4-155, 156) (pi. 

 44, i). 



Length :Qo. mm. 

 Width: 14.0 mm. 

 Thickness : 5.0 mm. 



D. Arrowshaft wrench, segment of bison rib perforated with gouged hole 

 (39LM4-78) (pi. 44,;). 



E. Proximal fragments of bison scapula ; 39LM4-170 has the suprascapular 

 spine removed (3 specimens) (pi. 44, h). 



CONCLUSIONS 



It is obvious that the occupation of the Plickey Brothers site was 

 not intensive, yet despite the relative scarcity of artifacts and archi- 

 tectural data, it is altogether probable that two components are pres- 

 ent. Pottery forms the most distinctive unit of the artifact inventory. 

 Of the total group of rim sherds, 72 percent (23) resemble the typical 

 pottery from the Thomas Riggs site. The remaining nine rims are 

 plainly Anderson Flared Rim Ware. The small quantity of cord- 

 roughened body sherds (about 1 percent) is somewhat less than one 

 might expect, yet it does provide a basis for the inference that a con- 

 siderable proportion of the Anderson pottery had smoothed bodies. 



Pottery of the Riggs grouping occurs only in the upper portions 

 of the cultural deposit, particularly in zone 1. Anderson Flared Rim 

 ware is restricted to zone 3, particularly to the surface and uppermost 

 part of that zone, and to the lower part of zone 2. The stratigraphic 

 occurrence of nonceramic artifacts is preponderantly in the upper 

 zones in association with the Riggs pottery. The assemblage contains 

 nothing not reasonably "at home" in the Thomas Riggs context (see 

 Hurt, 1953). Plate chalcedony knives, end scrapers of the type de- 

 scribed above, and split metapodial fleshers apparently are not char- 

 acteristic of earlier horizons. 



Recognizing the disabilities imposed by the small number of arti- 

 facts, still it is not mireasonable to postulate the presence of two 

 components, the early represented by the few Anderson sherds, the 

 late by the Riggs-like occupation. While the architectural data is even 

 less adequate, it is a fair inference that long-rectangular houses were 

 present, too. The limited information from Feature 10 offers good 

 support for such an assertion. Evidence from other features is in- 

 conclusive, although one might contend that Feature 39 is a house 



