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the lip and the other end inserted in a small hole in the shoulder (Cat. No. 
VIII-F- 10194) . A slightly curved, cylindrical piece of baked clay, with 
the ends scarfed, and two fragments of baked clay cylinders had probably 
been prepared for handles. 
The decorative processes employed at this site were modelling, luting, 
punching, impressing, stamping, trailing, incising, and pinching. 
Modelling to produce aesthetic effects can be seen on the rims of pots, 
especially those with angular lips, and on the shoulders (See cross-sections 
in Plate XII and text Figure 2). Some of the ornamentation in relief 
seems to have been modelled; the face on the side of the rim fragment in 
Plate IX, figure 26, may also have been modelled and not luted to the rim. 
Most of the raised ornamentation on the pottery was applied to the 
surface by luting {See Plate V, figures 28 and 29, and Plate X, figures 
2, 4-6). 
Punching can be seen on only a few of the pots, most of the holes 
having been made with finely pointed tools, probably some of the bone 
awls {See Plate II, figure 33). Large, deep, conical depressions on two 
shoulder fragments, one of which is seen in Plate II, figure 20, were prob- 
ably made with the rounded end of an antler tine. 
Impressing was done with the fingers and finger-nails, cords, and special 
tools. The fingers and nails were used to produce various aesthetic effects, 
some of which may be described under this head. The large hollows in 
the centre of some of the circles {See Plate VIII, figure 13) and along the 
lower angle of some of the rims seem to have been made with the ball of 
the little finger; those on the fragment in Plate IV, figure 7, were produced 
with the tip of the thumb. Impressions like those on the fragments seen 
in Plate II, figure 22, and Plate III, figure 30, were made with the nails. 
The vertical impressions on one of the rim fragments (Cat. No. VIII- 
F-9734o) look as if they had been made with a twisted, cord-like bundle 
of fibres; and twisted cords -were probably used to produce the lines and 
other impressions on another fragment (Cat. No. VIII-F-9584). 
The oval depressions between the lines of some of the chevron designs 
(See Plate IV, figures 14 and 16) and elsewhere on the rims {See Plate VI, 
figure 4) ; and the round, oval, and oblong depressions within the stamped 
circles {See Plate VI, figure 25, Plate VIII, figures 14, 26, and Plate IX, 
figures 16, 18-21, 24) could have been made by pressing the end of an 
antler tine into the clay; one of the tines, as is suggested by the appear- 
ance of the depression in the centre of the circles on the fragment in Plate 
VIII, figure 17, having a groove across the rounded end. Tools with round 
ends were also used to produce some of the depressions on top of the rim 
margins. The shape of the oblong and oviform depressions depended on 
the angle at wdiich the tool was held; thus, if the tool were held at a right 
angle to the surface there would be a round depression, and if it were held 
at a slant the resulting depression w r ould be either oval or oviform. The 
tip of the paddle-shaped bone object seen in Plate XVII, figure 1, if pressed 
into the clay at an angle, would produce oval depressions; similar tools 
may have been used to produce lenticular depressions. The double row of 
rounded depressions on the lower part of the rim seen in Plate IX, figure 
11 , seems to have been made wdth a tool that had two, small, rounded 
