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Pammel Creek Phase, Pammel Creek Trailed

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Type: Pammel Creek Trailed

Shoulder Description: Closely spaced, vertical tool trails all around the vessel (Boszhardt 1994: 231).

Lip Decoration: Relatively bold impressions, frequently applied with finters to the lip top or less frequently to the lip exterior. These often make a crenelated or pie crust effect or alternating sections of flattened and plain type (231).

Culture: Oneota, La Crosse Locality

Period: Late Prehistoric Period, Pammel Creek Phase, A.D. 1400-1500.

Site: Pammel Creek, 47LC61

Provenience: Feature 135

Artifact ID: 89.555.05

Curated at: Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Citation: Boszhardt, Robert F.
1994 Oneota Group Continuity at La Crosse: The Brice Prairie, Pammel Creek, and Valley View Phases. The Wisconsin Archaeologist 75(3-4): 173-236.

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