Artifacts
by Jonathan D. Till and Scott G. Ortman

Table 35. Temper and Paint Types for Rim Sherds from White Ware Bowls from Late-Thirteenth-Century Sites in the Mesa Verde Region

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Temper

Crushed Sandstone

Igneous Rock

Quartz Sand

Sherd

Mixed

Other

Total

Paint

Mineral

N%

Organic

N%

Mineral

N%

Organic

N%

Mineral

N%

Organic

N%

Mineral

N%

Organic

N%

Mineral

N%

Organic

N%

Mineral

N%

Organic

N%

Inside Sand Canyon Locality
Site:

Castle Rock Pueblo

1

2.2

1

2.2

 

 

15

32.6

3

6.5

4

8.7

2

4.3

20

43.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

46

100.0

Saddlehorn Hamlet

 

 

2

7.4

 

 

7

25.9

 

 

 

 

9

33.3

9

33.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27

100.0

Troy’s Tower

 

 

3

23.1

 

 

2

15.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

61.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

100.0

Lester’s Site

 

 

4

10.5

 

 

10

26.3

 

 

2

5.3

1

2.6

21

55.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

38

100.0

Lookout House

 

 

8

13.6

 

 

12

20.3

 

 

5

8.5

 

 

33

55.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

1.7

59

100.0

Sand Canyon Pueblo

1

0.3

34

11.2

 

 

25

8.2

 

 

6

2.0

10

3.3

225

74.0

 

 

3

1.0

 

 

 

 

304

100.0

Outside Sand Canyon Locality
Site:

Seven Towers Pueblo

 

 

2

5.3

 

 

2

5.3

 

 

 

 

4

10.5

29

76.3

 

 

1

2.6

 

 

 

 

38

100.0

Woods Canyon Pueblo

 

 

5

15.6

 

 

1

3.1

 

 

 

 

2

6.3

23

71.9

 

 

1

3.1

 

 

 

 

32

100.0

Yellow Jacket Pueblo

1

1.3

12

15.8

 

 

1

1.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

62

81.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

76

100.0

Hedley Main Ruin

 

 

1

1.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

1.5

3

4.6

60

92.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

65

100.0

TOTAL

3

0.4

72

10.3

 

 

75

10.7

3

0.4

18

2.6

31

4.4

490

70.2

 

 

5

0.7

 

 

1

0.1

698

100.0

NOTE: Sites are listed, top to bottom, in order of increasing distance from Sleeping Ute Mountain, the closest source of igneous rock.

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