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a third category of “Roughened” in which former stamped pots
(either checks or perhaps Complicated staups) have been
deliberately smeared and smoothed down to give a roughened
finish. In small sherds this mey be only a reflection of
sloppy handling of the wet paste before firing, but. elsewhere
we have indicated that there appears evidence of some deliberate
texturing of surfaces.
Some indication of this deliberate textured effect is
shown in the fact that there are six Swift Creek Complicated
sherds in the study collection, so smeared over and obscured
that the stamping is barely recognizable. Only one orudely
incised sherd with several. parallel lines of thin incision was
noted.
White Springs (9Dr7)
In the edge of Decatur County the site of Rhitc Springs,
9Dr7, provides another instance of ecological adaptation by the
Needen Island group. Evidences of occupation at this large and
impressive spring were found in the shape of several distinct
shell deposits, two in small cooking pits and a third in a larger,
scooped out depression, 8 feet wide and about 15 feet long when
allowance is made for the slopping over of aholl on the shoulders
of the depression, The naximum depth of shell in the larger
deposit was three feet penoilling out to 6 - 8 inches on the
shoulder margins.
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