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With regard to the number of simple stamped and cord-marked sherds in the 
two depth categories arbitrarily defined in the major excavated structures, it 
may be pointed out that the frequencies of both groups of sherds are clearly 
greater in the upper layer (0.2 to 0.7 foot below surface) in House 2 and House 
38. The converse is true with respect to the two layers defined in the trash 
dump (XU1). 
As far as the overall distribution of simple stamped and cord-marked body 
sherds at Hintz goes, it may be observed that while simple stamped sherds 
occurred in 22 of the 25 excavation units, cord-marked sherds were found in only 
8 of the 25 excavation units. 
To sum up: It may be stated that the horizontal and vertical pro- 
venience of the simple stamped and cord-marked body sherds in the 
excavated structures and in the other excavation units at the Hintz 
site indicates that, whereas simple stamping and cord-marking co- 
existed in the Hintz component, they were by no means coextensive 
therein. The relatively high frequency and near-ubiquity of simple 
stamped sherds, compared to the relative scarcity and restricted dis- 
tribution of cord-marked sherds, in the Hintz sample, seem to imply 
(1) a cultural static—the greater popularity of simple stamping 
over cord-marking, and (2) a cultural dynamic—the supplanting of 
cord-marking by simple stamping in the Hintz component. The 
latter phenomenon is apparent, I believe, in two components recently 
analyzed in the Missouri River valley near Pierre, S. Dak. The re- 
placement of cord-marking (or “cord roughening”) by simple stamp- 
ing 1s a fait accompli in the Phillips Ranch component of the Snake 
Butte Focus (Lehmer, 1954, p. 100, table 4), which may be closely 
contemporaneous with the Hintz component. The displacement of 
cord-marking (or “cord roughening”) by simple stamping seems to 
be well on the way in the component of the Stanley Focus at the 
Dodd site (Lehmer, op. cit., p. 81, table 1), which is judged to be 
shghtly earlier than the Phillips Ranch component. 
Characterization—The ceramic complex of the Hintz component, 
irrespective of rim and body sherd types and groupings, exhibits the 
following attributes, listed under eight heads: 
Paste: Fine sand or grit-tempered, unslipped, buff to dark gray in color. 
Technique of manufacture: Probably lump modeled, then thinned with 
paddle and anvil. 
Lip form: Rounded, flattened, beveled, everted, pointed, or interiorly or 
exteriorly extruded. 
Rim form: Incurved, flared (unthickened, or exteriorly thickened or 
“braced,” or exteriorly thickened and beveled or “wedge-shaped’’), col- 
lared, or recurved or S-shaped. 
Vessel form: Globular jars of apparently small size. 
Decorative treatment: Undecorated, or decorated with rectilinear or rarely 
curvilinear dentate stamped, incised-trailed, cord impressed, tool im- 
pressed, punctated, wrapped-stick impressed, check stamped, or painted 
designs on the lip, exterior and/or interior rim surfaces, and the shoulder 
area. 
