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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Paul Mitchell

VESSEL NO.: 341-438, Burial 13

VESSEL FORM: Jar with four rim peaks

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip

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

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

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown to yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base; organic residue on the body

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.4 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

HEIGHT (IN CM): 11.4

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 11.4

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.6

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.1; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.8

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel rim is plain, except for a single row of tool punctations at the rim-body juncture. The vessel body is divided into four panels by four sets of two vertical appliqued ridges that extend from the rim-body juncture to near the vessel base. The panels are filled with nested incised triangle elements filled with horizontal or diagonal incised lines pitched in different directions.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Pease Brushed-Incised

Pease Brushed-Incised jar in Burial 13 in Mathews excavations at the Paul Mitchell site (41BW4)

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Keywords

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

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