Thus the 39 incised sherds include at least 11 from vessels of type
Pease Brushed-Incised, one is type Crockett Curvilinear Incised, and two
appear to be intrusions from the late Coles Creek period of the Lower
Mississippi Area. The unidentified sherds are all typically Caddoan in
their general characteristics, and three of them may represent type
Maydelle Incised of the Frankston Focus.
_Appliquéd Pottery_
The decorative technique of appliquéing occurs commonly at the Harroun
Site, principally in combination with brushing and incising on the type
Pease Brushed-Incised described above. However, there are five sherds
with appliqué strips but with no traces of brushing or incising (Fig.
14, J). Paste characteristics of these sherds are the same as for the
previously described appliquéd sherds of the Pease type, and it is
believed that they are from vessels similar to Pease Brushed-Incised
except that the panels on the body were left plain instead of being
filled with brushing or incised lines.
_Punctated Pottery_
As stated in previous sections, horizontal rows of punctations occur
commonly in combination with brushing on the rims of jars, and
punctations also appear in vertical rows on appliqué strips applied to
the bodies of Pease Brushed-Incised jars. Thus punctations seem to occur
most commonly in association with incising, brushing, and appliquéing.
However, eight sherds have punctations as the only decorative technique.
Four of them have sections of single rows of closely spaced punctations,
all made with the ends of sticks or similar implements (Fig. 14, H). The
other four sherds (Fig. 14, I) are covered with small, free punctations.
On one of the latter the punctations were made with a blunt stick; the
other three have paired fingernail impressions.
The punctated sherds are all similar in paste characteristics. All are
sherd tempered and one also has a small amount of bone temper. Exterior
colors are light to medium brown and gray, while the interiors tend
toward darker shades of the same colors. The exterior surfaces were
smoothed before the punctations were applied; the interiors are also
smoothed.
The punctated sherds are not distinctive enough for typological
identification.
_Engraved Pottery_
Only two complete pottery vessels were found at the Harroun Site, a
carinated bowl and a bottle, both engraved and both associated with the
burial beneath Mound A.
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