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at this site. Most of the loop handles were attached to the shoulder 

 area by riveting and were molded to the lip. A characteristic of 

 these handles at this site is their projection above the lip, a trait 

 that does not occur at Site No. 11. Furthermore, some of those that 

 still retained the upper portion of the handle possessed a raised knob, 

 which was either single or bifurcated. These determinant characters 

 are well shown in the illustration as well as two handles with small 

 knobs on the outer surface. Only one of the sherds at this site be- 

 longs to the type of jar which was fairly common at Site No. 11 and 

 has a number of raised points on the rim with a small lug just below 

 the lip of the raised portion. There were portions of 37 handles in 

 the study collection that could be examined in detail. They con- 

 formed to the characteristics of the jars as far as hardness, surface 

 finish, texture, and color are concerned. 



Grit- Tempered Sherds 



In the lower left-hand corner of plate 32, a, there is illustrated a 

 sherd that undoubtedly should be classed with Type III at the two 

 cave sites discussed in an earlier section of this report. There are 

 seven sherds in the study collection that are of the same type. The 

 tempering material is crushed rock with quartz, mica, feldspar, and 

 other minerals appearing in the clay matrix. One of the sherds could 

 be scratched with the fingernail, two had a hardness of 2.5, two 

 had a hardness of 3, and one was scratched first by 3.5. An analysis 

 of the clays would undoubtedly show that these sherds were not made 

 from the same clay as the rest of the sherds found at the site. They 

 belong to another cultural group. 



Site No. 4 



There are about 40 sherds in the Ceramic Repository that came 

 from Site No. 4. Of these, almost 90 percent are hole tempered and 

 in very poor condition. There are only four rim sherds present and 

 they are all hole tempered with a hardness of 2. The texture as far 

 as it can be determined is medium fine. Only one of the sherds 

 shows the impressions left by the cord-wrapped paddle. This is 

 a lower rim and shoulder section which formerly held a loop haudle. 

 The surface finish on the remaining sherds is smooth. Three of the 

 rims are straight and one has a slight flare. Two of the lips are 

 rounded and two are flattened and rounded. There are two loop 

 handles in the study collection. One of these is a rather small 

 rounded handle which is attached to the lip without projecting above 

 it and which was attached to the shoulder area by riveting. The 

 other handle is an oval loop handle which projects above the lip and 

 the projection is centrally depressed. 



