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  • 6 sherds with matte black surfaces
    Bell Plain (aka Moundville Black Filmed)
  • 6 sherds with incised and punctated decoration
    Moundville Incised
  • 5 sherds with very fine interior engraving
    Anna Incised (aka Anna Engraved)
  • 6 sherds with incised parallel rim banding
    Anna Incised, var. Australia
  • 4 handles and two rims with handle attachment points
    Mississippi Plain, handles and terminals
  • 8 rim sherds of plain shell tempered pottery
    Mississippi Plain, rims
  • 2 sherds of plain pottery with round protrusions
    Mississippi Plain, nodes
  • 6 sherds with zones of fine incised crosshatching
    Maddox Engraved
  • 7 sherds with zones of crosshatched incising
    Maddox Engraved
  • 8 sherds with diagonal linear rim incising
    Barton Incised
  • 2 sherds with bold parallel line incising
    Sanson Incised
  • 7 sherds with parallel line incising
    Leland Incised, var. Bayou Goula
  • 3 sherds with fine straight and curvilinear incising or engraving
    L'Eau Noire Incised
  • 6 sherds with fingernail and similar impressions
    Evansville Punctated, var. Wilkinson
  • 5 sherds with deep fingernail impressions
    Parkin Punctated
  • 2 sherds with straight and curvilinear incising
    Fatherland Incised
  • 2 sherds with shallow combing or incising
    Chickachae Combed
  • 6 sherds with deep and clear fabric impressions
    Langston Fabric Marked (Alabama)
  • 8 sherds with coarse woven impressions
    Salt Creek Cane Impressed (Alabama)

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Andrea Torvinen, Ph.D.
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