. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. , ?? ??• ? .^^^^ m^*:..: n iS'mm^. ^t cm Fig. 33. Layer 2, spout fragment with carbonized material adhering, SAM-AA2950. impressed bands, one in the centre of the sherd and one near the edge. These are unlike the comb-stamping on the rim of the reconstructed pot from this layer (Fig. 31 A) and replication tests carried out to ascertain the nature of the tool used showed that the ventral edge of a Donax serra shell produces impressions identical to those on the sherd. This provides another example of
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. , ?? ??• ? .^^^^ m^*:..: n iS'mm^. ^t cm Fig. 33. Layer 2, spout fragment with carbonized material adhering, SAM-AA2950. impressed bands, one in the centre of the sherd and one near the edge. These are unlike the comb-stamping on the rim of the reconstructed pot from this layer (Fig. 31 A) and replication tests carried out to ascertain the nature of the tool used showed that the ventral edge of a Donax serra shell produces impressions identical to those on the sherd. This provides another example of uses to which marine shell could be put. It is difficult to assign the sherd to any known pot or other sherds in the assemblage for, although in appearance it is similar to the spouted pot, it does not appear to belong to it for two reasons. Firstly, since the pot is almost complete in circumference in its upper part, this would represent only isolated decoration on one part of the circumference; secondly for the lower part of the pot to be decorated would be a most unusual circumstance (Rudner 1968: 457). On the other hand, there are too many bands for the impression to have been accidental rather than deliberate, and it is therefore concluded that a second brown pot, similar in some respects to the reconstructed pot, is also represented. The suggested minimum number of pots represented by the sherds in this layer is Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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