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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Hatchel (41BW3)

VESSEL NO.: 6-1-23; Burial Plot 2, Burial 21

VESSEL FORM: Jar

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip; four appliqued loop handles (17 x 9 mm in length and width)

CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 4.9 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 11.4

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 8.8

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.5 cm; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.56

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim has a single row of tool punctations under the vessel lip as well as smoothed neck banded coils. The upper vessel body has three rows of linear tool punctations as well as four vertical appliqued ridges placed under the loop handles. These ridges are divided into upper (amidst the punctated rows) and lower sections (below the tool punctated rows).

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Nash Neck Banded

Nash Neck Banded jar (6-1-23) in Burial 21 in Burial Plot 2 at the Hatchel site. Photograph courtesy of TARL.

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Keywords

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

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