NYSAA Bulletin No. 52 — Archaic Sites: Croton Point & Dogan Point — Passage 19 (part 2)

[Various (1971)] The following techniques were used to decorate the exterior of 64 vessels; incising, punctating, dentate stamping, bossing, cord-wrapped stick impressions, or a combination of incising with the other techniques. The technique of decoration and its frequency for the rim, neck, and shoulder areas is as follows: incising, 53; incising and dentate stamp, 2; incising and punctating, 2; incising and cord-wrap stick, l; cord-wrap stick, 3; punctating, 2; bossing, 1. The prevailing technique is incising, which occurs on 55.5% of the total, or in combination with dentate stamping, punctating, and cord-wrapped stick on 60.90% of the total. The interior rim area was decorated on 8 vessels. Incising was the preferred technique on 7 vessels and punctating occurs once. The lip was decorated on 15 vessels either by incising or punctating.

The preference is again for incising, 12 vessels; for punctating, 3 vessels. Criterion 5: Design Motif. The interior design motif on the 8 decorated interior rims is as follows: oblique incising, 7 vessels, and elliptical punctate, 1 vessel. The lip design motif on the 15 decorated lips is illustrated in Figure 1 with their frequency of occurrence. The punctated lips are decorated with an encircling row of impressions. The incised lips are primarily decorated with oblique impressions. The design motif of the rim, neck, and shoulder areas is illustrated in Figure 2 and the frequency of each motif in Table 1.