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are found on the house floor at the base of J°40, in the fill of 
J°40, in the refuse pits in the village and in the habitation 
layer. There are a small number of Herculaneum Cord Rough- 
ened pottery sherds, a preponderance of Imperial Plain pottery 
sherds from J°40 mound fill and a preponderance of Plattin 
Clay Tempered ware from both the village habitation layer and 
the refuse pits in the village. A percentage study of the ware 
is instructive. 
Imperial Plain sherds were predominate from the mound fill. 
Of 651 sherds, 78% were Imperial Plain; 22% were Plattin Clay 
Tempered and Herculaneum Cord Roughened, but there was 4 
thorough mixture of the three wares throughout. the mound fill. 
From the trenches of Jv32, 1848 sherds were found. 17% of 
these sherds were Imperial Plain, 15% Herculaneum Cord 
Roughened and 68% were Plattin Clay Tempered sherds. There 
was no visible percentage differences of these wares from level 
to level in the 40 centimeter depth of village refuse. Of 1193 
sherds found from the refuse pits, only 4% were Imperial Plain 
sherds, 9% were Herculaneum Cord Roughened sherds and 87 %o 
were Plattin Clay Tempered. Many of the Herculaneum Cord 
Roughened sherds from the village were limestone tempered. 
The small percentage of Imperial Plain sherds from the refuse 
pits compared to the village was puzzling, but when we realize 
the extremely acid nature of the refuse pits it is possible to 
explain this discrepancy. The shell tempering leached out more 
rapidly from the sherds from the refuse pits than from the 
village habitation levels. The thorough intermixture albeit re 
verse percentages of wares from both the mound fill and village 
trenches points toward occupancy by one group for both the 
mound and village sites. Add to this the similarity in size and 
shape of the house outlines from the base of the mound and 
the village, quantities of charred corn from both the mound and 
village site, the comparatively few animal bones from the vil- 
lage and house at the base of the mound indicating that hunting 
was secondary, and the construction of a mound over the burned 
remains of a deer indicating that animals may have had totemic 
significance, and we begin to realize that the village and the 
