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2018

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Clements

VESSEL NO.: 73, Burial H-11

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded lip; lip notched

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown

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

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 4.2 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 6.6

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 14.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 13.6

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.7; circular and rounded

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.54

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The lower part of the rim has a series of seven engraved panels. These panels have either one or two horizontal engraved lines with downward-pointing tick marks on them. The panels are divided by either free-standing brackets (n=4) with curvilinear and vertical hatched lines or brackets (n=3), also with curvilinear and vertical hatched lines, that are connected to the horizontal engraved lines in the panels.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Simms Engraved

Simms Engraved carinated bowl (Vessel No. 73) in Burial H-11 at the Clements site.

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Keywords

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

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