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Site No. 2 



This site has the largest percentage of hole-tempered sherds of 

 any of the valley sites represented in the Ceramic Eepository col- 

 lection. Only two of the sherds from this site have not had the shell 

 temper leached out to such a degree that the sherds can be spoken 

 of as being hole tempered. Six of the sherds are salt-pan frag- 

 ments. The markings are quite indistinct but four appear to be 

 simple twine weave and two are probably twilled twine. One of 

 the salt-pan sherds is a rim piece and has a rounded lip which does 

 not project beyond the rim width. 



There are 121 small and medium size hole-tempered fragments 

 that have smoothed outer surfaces and 12 that show the cord-wrapped 

 paddle impression. Three sherds have space where once a loop han- 

 dle was riveted into place. Four out of the six rims are flattened 

 and rounded, one is rounded, and the sixth is narrowed and rounded. 

 The rims are all straight. There are two oval-shape loop handles 

 present that are above average size. 



Site No. 9. — Jar Kims Not "Hole" Tempered 



By far the majority of the pottery sherds represented in the study 

 collection belong to vessels of the jar shape. When the rim pieces 

 were separated from the body sherds it was found that there were 

 100 jar rims that were quite plainly shell tempered and 100 that 

 were "hole" tempered. This group of rim sherds is described on 

 Charts XXXIII and XXXIV under these two heads. There is a 

 small percentage of tempering material in the pottery from this site. 

 As is usual at the valley sites, the added aplastic is crushed shell. 

 This shell has leached out from approximately half of the sherds 

 from the site and the sherds appear "hole" tempered. See sherds 2 and 

 3 on plate 151, a. 



The sherds listed in Chart XXXIII are quite obviously shell tem- 

 pered. Seventy-three percent have a hardness of 2-2.5, 12 percent 

 have a hardness of 2, and 14 percent are 2.5. The contrast shown 

 by the sherds of Chart XXXIV is striking, for with the "hole"-tem- 

 pered sherds 91 percent can be scratched with gypsum and only 9 

 percent are 2-2.5 in hardness. The texture of the sherds in both 

 groups is predominantly medium fine and the surface finish is 

 smoothed on practically every sherd. Chart XXXIII has as its last 

 12 sherds what I believe is an alien type at this site. They would 

 be perfectly at home at Site No. 11. On these sherds the surface is 

 tooled with a cord-wrapped paddle nearly to the lip but the upper 

 rim is smoothed. The surface treatment then is quite different from 

 the majority of jar rims at this site. See sherds 5, 6, and 7 on plate 

 151, a. 



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