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exceptional example, and such sherds as Nos. 24, 28, and 29 

 are quite short. One of this group of sherds has fine grit temper, 

 is heavily smoke blackened on both the exterior and interior sur- 

 faces, and the smoothing marks, made by a pebble or gourd, are 

 plainly visible. 



The lip is commonly rounded or flattened and rounded. Only six 

 of the sherds had narrowed and rounded lips. In many cases the 

 dividing line between the first two types of lip outline was rather 

 indistinct, and only a few of the sherds possessed the horizontally 

 flattened lip which was so common at some of the sites. The lip 

 thickness ranges from 0.2 cm to 0.8 cm, with almost 90 percent being 

 from 0.4 cm to 0.7 cm. The rims are from 0.5 cm to 1.1 cm, with 94 

 percent having a width between 0.6 cm and 1.0 cm. The shoulder 

 is commonly a trifle thinner than the rim section. 



The lip diameters for the following sherds were : No. 4, 17 inches ; 

 No. 6, 5 inches; No. 8, 10.5 inches; No. 23, 6 inches; No. 24, 9 inches; 

 and No. 25, 11 inches. 



Jar Kims With Lug Handles 



A description of rims of this type with the measurements of the 

 lugs in association is given on Chart XXVI. All of these sherds were 

 shell tempered, but as a result of burial in the ground four of them 

 have become hole tempered. Fifty-one percent of the sherds could be 

 scratched by the fingernail, 37 percent have a hardness of 2.5, and the 

 remainder could be scratched by gypsum. The texture is medium 

 fine with four of the pieces having a medium texture. 



Only four of the sherds were slightly flaring and the rest were 

 straight. The lips were usually flattened and rounded, or rounded. 

 It was difficult to accurately describe the lip shape on some of the 

 sherds because of the proximity of the lug to the lip which tended 

 to obscure the lip shape. A slightly smaller percentage of the rim 

 sherds with lugs showed the results of smoke blackening as compared 

 with the plain rims. The lip thickness ranges from 0.35 cm to 1.1 cm, 

 with 78 percent being between 0.7 cm and 1 cm. Almost three- 

 fourths of the lugs were attached a short distance below the lip. 

 The dimensions of the lugs are given in the chart and the distance 

 below the lip if they were not coterminous with that portion of the 

 vessel. 



Eighty percent of the lugs were between 3 cm and 7 cm long; 

 85 percent were between 1 cm and 2 cm high ; and 75 percent of them 

 were between 1.5 cm and 2.5 cm wide. The lugs at this site then are 

 slightly longer, not quite as high, and do not project from the rim 

 as much as the lugs at Site No. 11. A few of the sherds on this chart 



