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ments described having crushed shell for the aplastic. Those sherds 

 which have limestone temper also have a surface which is sandy to 

 the touch, and in the case of hole-tempered sherds those fragments 

 with the sandy surface were grouped as probably having had lime- 

 stone instead of shell for the binding material. Almost 50 percent 

 of the sherds could be scratched with gypsum and 41 percent were 

 scratched with the fingernail. Four out of five of the sherds with a 

 hardness of 2.5 had limestone as the aplastic and the remainder had a 

 hardness of 2.5. 



The texture of the jar rims is predominantly medium fine. Only 

 one of them has a fine texture and seven are medium. The surface 

 finish on all but two of the sherds is smoothed. As mentioned above, 

 those sherds with limestone temper have a gritty feel and contain 

 mica, while those with shell temper have a "soft" feel. Two of the 

 sherds show on their surfaces the results of having been malleated 

 with a stamped paddle. The impressions were blurred so that no 

 measurements could be taken because of erosion of the limestone 

 tempering material and perhaps because of surface smoothing after 

 the paddle impression had been applied. Almost 70 percent of the 

 rims are straight, while the remainder, with the exception of one rim, 

 which is flaring, are semiflaring. Nearly 27 percent of the lips are 

 flattened and rounded and the other lips are equally divided between 

 a rounded shape and a narrow and rounded shape. On a good num- 

 ber of the sherds, particularly those with limestone aplastic, the upper 

 rim is slightly everted. On this same type of sherd the inner wall 

 of the rim as it approached the lip is thinner, giving the sherd the 

 impression of having a greater flare than it actually possesses, and 

 allowing the formation of a narrowed and rounded lip. While this 

 shape of lip is not limited to the semiflaring rim, 10 out of the 14 

 rims of this type have narrowed and rounded lips. The lips range 

 in thickness from 0.2 cm to 1.1 cm, with 78 percent between 0.4 cm 

 and 0.7 cm. The rims, although varying from 0.4 cm to 0.9 cm, have 

 83 percent of their number between 0.5 cm and 0.8 cm. The estimated 

 lip diameters are: Sherd No. 2, 9 inches; No. 4, 7 inches; No. 8, 11 

 inches; No. 33, 9.5 inches; No. 16, 4.5 inches. About 60 percent of 

 the sherds show the effects of smoke discoloration. The prevailing 

 surface colors are grayish chocolate or reddish brown, and grayish tan. 

 The first six sherds on plate 151, &, illustrate this shape. 



Handles — Lugs 



There are few handles or sherds showing places of attachment for 

 handles in this group. Nine loop handles are present and of these 

 five have a rounded cross section; the smallest having a diameter of 

 1.4 cm and the largest of 2.3 cm. The other loop handles have an 

 oval cross section, as can be seen by the measurements of the best 



