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Texture: Soft, clayey, fine texture; porous because of poor admixture of 
temper; cleavage irregular. 
Color: Core varies from orange to tan through the cross section to a gray 
core fired orange along the exterior and interior for a depth ranging 
from paper thin to 2mm. A splotched appearance is typical, resulting 
from color contrast of temper with matrix. 
Firing: Oxidizing, varying from complete to incomplete. 
SURFACE: 
Color: Tan to orange to light, tile orange; some eroded sherds have a 
grayish hue from the exposure of the unoxidized core. Fire clouds are 
rare. 
Treatment: Both interior and exterior typically uneven and irregular as 
a result of hand smoothing. Surfaces tend to be higher around hard 
temper grains. No indication of the use of scraping tool. 
Hardness: Very soft : 2-2.5. 
TorM: 
Rim: Direct with flattened or rounded lip; exteriorly thickened to produce 
a flat or rounded ridge, terminating in a flattened or rounded lip; rarely, 
everted and interiorly thickened to produce an angular bend; very rarely, 
exteriorly thickened producing a broad, sloping flange. 
Body wall thickness: 5-10 mm.; majority 6-8 mm. Bases occasionally 
thickened to 1.7 cm. 
Base: 
A. Flat, joining the side wall with a typically rounded junction, but 
occasionally with a low pedestal formed by a more vertical slope 
before joining the side wall. Diameter 5-16 cm. (fig. 69, A). 
B. Rounded, often slightly thickened at the center (fig. 69, B). 
C. Annular, height 1.6-2.5 em., diameter 8-12 cm. (fig. 69, C). 
Common vessel shapes reconstructed from sherds: 
1. Bowls with outsloping to nearly vertical side walls, direct rim, and 
flattened or rounded lip. Walls sometimes expand or taper slightly 
to the rim, apparently the accidental result of poor workmanship. 
Rim diameter 14-28 em. (fig. 69-1). 
2. Bowls with nearly vertical walls, exteriorly thickened rim tapering 
slightly to flattened or rounded lip. Rim diameter 24-26 cm. 
(fig. 69-2). 
8. Rounded jars with walls incurving to constricted mouth, direct rim 
and rounded or flattened lip. Mouth diameter 16-34 cm. (fig. 
69-3). 
4. Jars with upper walls insloping to constricted mouth with exteriorly 
thickened rim and flattened or rounded lip. Mouth diameter 14-36 
em.; majority 24-386 cm. (fig. 69-4). 
Rare vessel shapes reconstructed from sherds: 
1. Griddles with tapered or slightly upturned rim and rounded lip. 
Diameter 28-38 em. (fig. 69—Rare Form1). 
2. Bowls with everted rims, slightly thickened at the bend on the in- 
terior. Exterior rim diameter 16-26 cm. (fig. 69—Rare Form 2). 
8. Bowls with broad, everted, flange rims. Mouth diameter 24-28 cm. 
(fig. 69—Rare Form 8). 
Appendages: 
1. Handles. Three fragments of vertical, loop handles show consid- 
erable variation in form and size. One has a circular cross section, 
1 cm. in diameter. The other two are ovoid, one 3.3 cm. wide by 
