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ARTIFACTS 
POTTERY 
The pottery count included 138 rims, 3,957 body sherds, and 7 ap- 
pendages. These may readily be put into three groups for purposes 
of description. One partially reconstructed vessel is composed of 
nine sherds (pl. 50, a). 
GROUP 1 
Walnut Decorated Lip. 118 rim sherds, 3,801 body sherds, and 2 appendages 
(pl. 50, a through 7). 
PASTE: 
Temper: Moderate amounts of medium to coarse-grained sand. 
Texture: Granular. Sherds tend to crumble and surfaces rub off easily. 
Hardness: Most sherds have the hardness of 3 (calcite). 
Color: Buff to gray, buff predominating. A few sherds are bright orange, 
probably the result of overfiring. Some of the sherds are slate-black ; they 
may have been thrown into a fire after the parent vessels were broken. 
SURFACE FINISH: 
Interior: Usually smooth. On a few sherds grains of sand protrude. 
Exterior: 1,801 body sherds are large enough to show surface treatment. 
These have been simple-stamped, and then the paddle marks were partially 
eradicated while the clay was still soft. 
DECORATION : 
Techniques: Impressions made with a cylindrical object, usually 2 to 4 
mm. in diameter; incised lines made with a pointed object; trailed lines 
made with a blunt tool; impressions made with a finger or thumb. All 
of these techniques employed while the clay was still soft. 
Pattern: A single row of finger or tool impressions around the lip or on the 
rim interior at the lip; parallel incised or trailed lines; opposing diagonal 
or opposed horizontal and vertical lines, incised or trailed. Of 120 body 
sherds decorated with two or more parallel lines, 55 are decorated with 
incised lines and 65 are decorated with trailed lines. There are 55 body 
sherds decorated with opposing diagonal or opposing horizontal and 
vertical lines; 38 of these are incised and 15 have trailed lines. There are 
12 body sherds decorated with parallel lines and punctations. 
Distribution: All vessels are decorated on the lip or on the rim interior at 
the lip. Rims of all vessels are plain. 
ForM : 
Lip: Rounded on 67 sherds, flat on 26, and slightly beveled outward on 10. 
Rim: 31 sherds slightly flaring; 18 are straight. The other rim specimens 
are too small to determine their form. 
Neck: Constricted on all identifiable sherds. 
Shoulder: The juncture of the rim and the shoulder is quite angular. The 
shoulder extends out from the rim at about 45° from the vertical. The 
junction of the body and the shoulder is also quite angular. 
Appendages: 1 lug and 1 strap handle. Both are small and appear to have 
been broken from small vessels. 
DIMENSIONS: 
Rim height: Ranges from 15 to 37 mm. 
Thickness: Ranges from 3 to 7 mm. Most of the body sherds are about 
5mm. thick. Rim sherds range from 4 to 9 mm. 
