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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Paul Mitchell

VESSEL NO.: 341-462, Burial 21

VESSEL FORM: Jar

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip

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

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

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.4 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

HEIGHT (IN CM): 15.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 14.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 14.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.2; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.3

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): the vessel rim is decorated with horizontal brushing marks, a row of tool punctations beneath the lip, and a second tool punctated row at the rim-body juncture. The vessel body is divided into narrow panels by 16 sets of vertical appliqued fillets that extend to the vessel base. The panels themselves have vertical brushing marks.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Pease Brushed-Incised jar in Burial 21 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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