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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Sam Kaufman, Burial No. 3

VESSEL NO.: 2003.08.1117

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: shell

VESSEL FORM: Jar with short neck

RIM AND LIP FORM: everted rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip

CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark grayish-brown; fire clouding on the body and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.2 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 12.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 13.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.9

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 8.8

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.97

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel rim is plain, except for three sets of small appliqué nodes; it is also lip notched. The vessel body has three repeating sets of narrow curvilinear zones filled with cross-hatched engraved lines. These zones form scrolls that end in hooked arms as well as large cross-hatched elements, and there are upper and lower engraved triangles on either side of the large cross-hatched scrolls. There are also single curvilinear and ticked engraved lines that hook around two of the narrow cross-hatched zones.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE [IF KNOWN]: Hudson Engraved

Hudson Engraved jar, Burial No. 3 at the Sam Kaufman Site.

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Keywords

American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology

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