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be listed under this category. The rim or upper portion of the rim is 

 smoothed in 85 percent of the sherds, while the shoulder area or body 

 is either tooled with a cord-wrapped paddle or tooled and subse- 

 quently smoothed to varying degrees in 71 percent of the cases. 

 Eighteen percent of the sherds appeared to have smoothed bodies. 

 This may be due to the small size of the sherd, as there are no body 

 sections with smooth surfaces from this site. However, the sherds 

 illustrated in the lower row of plate 79, &, almost certainly had bodies 

 that were completely smoothed. It would appear that they were 

 relatively rare at this site. I might also point out at this time that 

 the sherd in the same figure showing the impression of a paddle carved 

 into small squares is also atypical of the material found at this site. 



In describing the rim shape I noted whether there was a sharp angle 

 between the shoulder area and the rim. This feature most commonly 

 occurred where the rim was straight and rarely where it was slightly 

 flared. It never occurred with a flaring rim. As would be expected, 

 the latter two rim shapes have a more gradual curve from shoulder 

 to rim. Only one-fourth of the straight rims, however, were attached 

 at a noticeably sharp angle to the shoulder area. There is a much 

 higher percentage of flaring rims in jar type B than in jar type A. 

 In the former almost 10 percent have flaring rims, while in the latter 

 only 1 sherd out of 89 has a flaring rim. The added outer rim strip 

 was plainly distinguishable on 18 percent of the rims on jars of this 

 shape as contrasted with the 53 on type A. 



The most common lip has a rounded outline and about half of them 

 are of this type. Almost 30 percent are narrow and rounded, while 

 15 percent are flattened and rounded. There appeared to be no signifi- 

 cant correlation between the shape of the lip and the shape of the rim. 

 The lip thickness ranges from 0.3 cm to 1.1 cm, as shown in Chart 

 XVII, with 80 percent of the sherds falling between 0.4 cm and 

 0.7 cm. The rim varied between the extreme of 0.5 cm and 1.8 cm, 

 but 85 percent of the rims were from 0.6 cm to 1.1 cm in thickness. 

 The rims are usually 0.2 cm to 0.4 cm thicker than the lips. 

 Twenty-one percent of the interiors are discolored from smoke black- 

 ening and 38 percent of the exteriors show the same darkening. The 

 exterior surface shows about the same range of coloration as did the 

 jars in group A. 



The estimated diameters for the sherds for which the cross section 

 has been drawn is : No. 7, 16 inches ; No. 11, 10.5 inches ; No. 24, 9.5 

 inches; No. 27, 12 inches; No. 56, 13.5 inches; No. 77, 16 inches at the 

 angle between the rim and shoulder ; No. 108, 10 inches ; and No. 123, 

 9 inches. 



