An Inventory and Analysis of Ceramics from Sites on the Fort Carson Military Base.

Nine morphological landmarks and two decorative terms are introduced during the analysis and description of ceramics from archaeological sites on the Fort Carson Military base in southeastern Colorado. One thousand and fifty-two specimens drawn from 54 archaeological sites are analyzed and the evidence for manufacturing techniques and production steps and stages is presented This evidence indicates that a single base forming technique (i.e., excavated and mass modeled), and two separate body forming techniques (i.e., coiled and mass modeled) are present. Rim and lip forming techniques and decoration are discussed and related to virtually identical practices in western Kansas and southwestern Nebraska. It is hypothesized that in the Fort Carson area mass modeling was earlier and introducedfrom the northeast and that coiling was later and was introducedfrom the southwest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]