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6. Of the three groups of body sherds classified according to exterior surface 
finish—namely, simple stamped, cord-marked, and smoothed (or “plain”)—the 
last group includes by all odds the largest number of specimens in the Hintz 
collection, some 6,597 sherds, or 74 percent of the sample. Since the “smoothed,” 
i.e., buffed, possibly scraped but not burnished, body sherds may originally have 
been treated with a grooved or thong-wrapped paddle (simple stamped), or a 
cord-wrapped paddle (cord-marked), their distribution at the Hintz site is of 
little interest compared to that of the wnaliered simple stamped and cord-marked 
body sherds. The horizontal and vertical provenience of these two groups of 
sherds in the excavated structures and the other excavation units may be sum- 
marized as follows: 
TABLE 4.—Provenience of simple stamped and cord-marked sherds 
House 1 House 2 Trash dump House 3 
0.2-0.7 0. 7-2.45*} 0.2-0.7 0.7-1.5 (XU1) 0.2-0.7 0. 7-1.3 
0.2-0.7 0. 7-2.5 
Simple stamped (2053)_-----_-- 27 28 335 62 305 451 170 4 
Cord-marked (252) ...-.-------- 16 1 31 13 44 87 43 4 
House 4 Bower xU4 XU12 
0.2-0.7 0.7-1.1 (7°48) 0.2-0.7 0.7-1.2 | 0.2-0.7 0.7-1.2 
0. 2-1.0 
Simple stamped (2053)__.--.-_- 90 3 55 66 18 12 3 
Cord-marked (252)__-..-----.-- (oi See ee [a ee eee See py each eer ees cee Sees Reese 
*The depth-below-surface categories given here are generally, but not entirely, mutually exclusive cate- 
gories, aS will be seen in table 3. 
In addition, some 318 simple stamped body sherds were found in 15 other 
excavation units (at depths ranging from surface to 0.4 foot, and from 0.2 foot to 
1 foot), for a total of 1,947 sherds, or 94.8 percent of the total sample of simple 
stamped body sherds from the Hintz site. Also in addition to the above, three 
cord-marked body sherds were obtained from three other excavation units (at 
depths ranging from 0.2 to 0.7 foot, and from 0.2 foot to 1 foot), for a total of 
247 sherds, or 98 percent of the total sample of cord-marked body sherds from 
the Hintz site. 
Examples of both simple stamped and cord-marked body sherds occurred in all 
four of the major excavated structures, and in the trash dump (XU1) adjoining 
House 2. The proportion of simple stamped and of cord-marked body sherds 
relative to the entire sample of each group from the Hintz site is very nearly 
comparable in only one structure, House 2, with 19 percent of the whole sample 
of simple stamped sherds and 17 percent of the whole sample of cord-marked 
body sherds. The proportion of cord-marked sherds (to the whole sample) 
is more than twice that of simple stamped sherds (to the entire sample) in 
House 1 and House 3, and nearly twice as much as that of simple stamped 
sherds in the trash dump (XU1); and the converse obtains in House 4, thus: 
Trash 
Surface finish House 1 House 2 dump House 3 House 4 
(XU1) 
é Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent 
Simpletstamipedmtiss 22 5 - fees 3 19? 7 8 * 
Cord-markedl soos... ee ee Ui 17/ 52 19 ae 
* Of whole sample. 
