griffin] ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORRIS BASIN 301 



ment with a cord-wrapped paddle is still visible. The body surface of the 

 majority of the specimens from Site No. 11 are cord marked with a minority 

 showing subsequent smoothing. At Site No. 10, however, while there was a 

 considerable proportion that showed the cord marks clearly, or partly oblit- 

 erated, many of them were smoothed. 



This vessel has a long sloping shoulder area which merges rather gradually 

 into a straight or slightly flaring rim. The upper portion of the inner rim 

 has been angled outward so that it is almost horizontal and the lip almost 

 perpendicular. This change in direction of the rim is well marked on the 

 inner surface where there is a distinct edge between the perpendicular and 

 horizontal surfaces. The outside wall of the rim has, however, been thickened 

 and the change in direction is partially obscured by the gradualness of the 

 change. It would have been difficult to have separated this jar from the more 

 common type by an examination of the outer surfaces alone. An added 

 outer rim strip or band from 1.5 to 2.5 cm in height was common on vessels 

 of this type. The lip was commonly narrowed and rounded, or rounded, and 

 was only rarely flattened and rounded. 



Since the jar or pot shape is common at all six of the sites, I have 

 prepared a chart to show the main characteristics at each of the sites 

 of the jars present. The comparative rarity of hole-tempered ves- 

 sels at Sites Nos. 11, 10, and 19 is again emphasized. There are a 

 few obviously atypical grit-tempered sherds at Site No. 19, but at 

 Site No. 17 a sizable minority of typical sherds have grit temper. 

 The texture of all of the sites is overwhelmingly medium fine, with 

 a few sherds having fine and medium texture. At Sites Nos. 11 and 

 19 there were rare sherds with coarse texture. The jars at Site No. 

 11 were a trifle harder than at the other sites, but almost all of the 

 vessels are between 2 and 2.5 in hardness. At Site No. 11, and to a 

 lesser degree at Site No. 10, the jars are clearly cord marked, while 

 at the other sites this type of surface finish has been obliterated with 

 the subsequent smoothing. This feature, then, has been uniform on 

 all of the jar types at these six sites. The rims are commonly 

 straight or slightly flaring and the flaring rim is rare. There is a 

 distinct angle between the shoulder area and the rim on a significant 

 number of the jars at Site No. 11 and to a lesser degree at Site No. 

 10. At Site No. 5 it occurs rarely and is absent at the other sites. 

 The flattened and rounded lip is very common at Sites Nos. 19, 5, 9, 

 and 17, occurs less frequently at Site No. 10, and is not typical at 

 Site No. 11. The narrowed and rounded lip frequently occurs at 

 all of the sites, and the rounded lip is abundant at all of them. 



