TYPE: Cibola Neck Corrugated

 

DATE: A.D. 900 - 1100s (Hays-Gilpin 1998,122 & 123)

KEY DIFFERENCES: Neck corrugated only, bottoms are smooth, coils usually measure 4mm to 9mm wide.

COMMENTS: Neck corrugated grayware (all styles) date to circa A.D. 800 - 1100s. Graywares that are corrugated over most or all of the vessels exterior surfaces (all styles) date to circa A.D. 1100 - 1300+. Generally, the larger the coils, the earlier in time the piece was made. Potters gradually, over time, made their corrugated wares with thinner and thinner coils.

VARIETIES:

Grooved (a tool was used to make grooves between the coils)

Clapboard (corrugation that "hangs over" each other)

Indented

Incised

Zoned (alternating bands of two or more types of corrugation)

Plain (convex coils only, nothing externally done to them)

 

1Y Cibola Clapboard Neck Corrugated Sherd

Approximate Dimensions: 5" by 4 3/4"

2Y Cibola Grooved Neck Corrugated Sherd

Approximate Dimensions: 3 1/8" by 2"

 

3Y Cibola Zoned Neck Corrugated Sherd

Approximate Dimensions: 4 1/8" by 3 1/2"

 

 

 

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