Ladd] PARITA AND SANTTA MARIA ARCHEOLOGY, PANAMA 145 



Smoked Ware 



Sample. — 123 sherds; 9 complete vessels. 



Paste. — Fired to a gray or gray-brown; temper is black (blackened 

 through jfiring) crushed rock. 



Surface. — Pohshed black or chocolate-brown hue. Complete 

 vessels included the following shapes: a plain-based unmodified rim 

 plate 19 cm. in diameter (Find 129); three miniature tripod bowls 

 4-5 cm. in diameter with bulbous legs and flattened or gutter rims 

 (Finds 369-19, 372-16, 375-7) (fig. 57, a) ; a plain-based plate with two 

 opposed loop handles on the rim, each handle flanked by two nodes 

 (Find 372-28) ; ring-based open bowls with gutter rims and high 

 interior flanged Hps, similar in rim form (but not bases) to the Smoked 

 ware, Sangre variety at He-1 (Find 378-3, 378-4, fig. 57, b) ; and two 

 open pedestal bowls with modified gutter Hps and diameters of roughly 

 20 cm. Sherd rims for the most part were of open bowls, often with 

 modified gutter rim (fig. 57, c, d), a rim type shared by the Platanillo 

 variety, or with an interior flange extending upward (fig. 57, e) like 

 the Sangre variety and similar to that illustrated by Lothrop (1942, 

 fig. 320, b) for Early Smoked ware. In addition, a few sherds with 

 sharp medial bevel and slightly incurved upper walls, another Early 

 shape at Sitio Conte (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 321) and similar to the Red 

 ware median flange (fig. 51,/) were recovered, as well as a few cone- 

 shaped and rounded lugs (fig. 57, i, j). Rims were often decorated 

 with reed punctation and short parallel fine incision (fig. 57, g, h). 

 OccasionaUy, lobes extended horizontally out from the rim exterior. 



Two additional Smoked ware vessels which remained in Panama, 

 Finds 369-16 and 369-17, have been described as black polished 

 pedestal bowls or plates. Find 369-16 had a flat lip with an interior 

 bevel and two exterior rim projections, one of which was rectangular 

 and the other a semicircular form with punched node eyes. Find 

 369-17 had a deep lip channel with an interior flange, and thus is 

 somewhat similar to the Sangre variety. 



Geographic range. — Sitio Conte, Venado Beach, Parita Region 

 (He-4, He-1, He-2). 



Chronological position. — Most of the rim types at the El Hatillo 

 site were similar to Early Code Smoked ware at Sitio Conte. The 

 Platanillo variety (with ring base, not tripod) had Early associations 

 at He-1 and He-2 and the Sangre variety with pedestal base had both 

 Early and Late associations at He-1. 



Relationships oj type. — The ware is often similar to Code Red in 

 rim, Hp, and other characteristics of form. 



Bibliography. — Lothrop, 1942, pp. 158-163. 



