A total of 260 plain potsherds was recovered from the four mounds and
the trenches in the floodplain. Paste of the plain pottery contains
varying amounts of sand, and all or most of the sherds are tempered with
ground potsherds. Bone tempering is present in 31 plain sherds. Wall
thickness varies from 3 mm. for the thinnest body sherds to 13 mm. for
some basal sherds.
The surfaces are smoothed and some are highly polished. Sixteen plain
sherds are red filmed, seven of them on the exterior surface only and
the others on both the inner and outer surfaces. Paste colors are mostly
browns and grays, with shades ranging from very light to quite dark.
Carinated bowls, bottles, and probably other vessel shapes are
represented. Many of the plain sherds undoubtedly came from vessels
which were partially decorated; others probably are from entirely plain
vessels. Of the 14 rimsherds, seven are large enough to show that the
rims of some vessels were not decorated. No definite types were
recognized.
_Miscellaneous Ceramic Objects_
A perforated pottery disc (Fig. 14, Q) made from a sherd was found at
Mound C. It is 32 mm. in diameter, 8 mm. thick, and has a biconically
drilled hole 10 mm. in diameter in the center. The outer edge has been
partially ground smooth and the two flat sides are fairly well polished.
The sherd from which this artifact was made is buff in color, clay
tempered, and the paste is fine textured and compact.
A small, conical, ceramic object (Fig. 14, R) was unearthed at Mound B.
It appears to be the tip of an appendage that has broken off an effigy
vessel or a pipe bowl. It is oval in cross section, and the distal end
contracts to a blunt point. The buff-colored paste is fine grained and
compact; the surface is poorly smoothed. This object measures 18 mm.
long and its maximum diameter at the proximal end is 8 mm.
STONE ARTIFACTS
The 46 lithic artifacts include dart points, arrow points, bifacial
blades, worked nodules, pitted stones, and other objects. All the
chipped stone implements are made of local quartzites and cherts which
occur as very small nodules in the older stream terraces near the
Harroun Site. The sandstone and hematite employed for the other stone
artifacts were most likely collected from local sources also.
_Dart Points_
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