Artifacts
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Table 35. Temper and Paint Types for Rim Sherds from White Ware Bowls from Late-Thirteenth-Century Sites in the Mesa Verde Region
Temper
 Crushed Sandstone Igneous Rock Quartz Sand Sherd Mixed Other Total
Paint
 Mineral Organic Mineral Organic Mineral Organic Mineral Organic Mineral Organic Mineral Organic
Site N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N %
Inside Sand Canyon Locality
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
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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