TYPE: Dos Cabezas Red-on-Brown

DATE:  A.D. 650 to 800 (Heckman, 2000;66)

PRIMARY BOWL DESIGN PLACEMENT: Interiors.

COMMON DESIGNS: Simple broadline designs. Designs are like Hohokam, Estrella Red-on-Gray thick line designs. Quartered layouts of nested chevrons seems to be the most common.

KEY DIFFERENCES: Interior broadline red designs. The red lines were polished more extensively than the rest of the vessel. Exteriors often partially or completely slipped red.

VARIETIES: Exteriors may or may not have a red slip.

OTHER COMMON TYPES WITH SIMILAR DESIGN STYLES:

Hohokam Brown Ware - Estrella Red-on-Gray

Dragoon Ceramics - Cascabel Red-on-Brown

 

1Y Dos Cabezas Red-on-Brown Bowl with a red slipped exterior.

Approximate Dimensions: 12 3/4" by 5"

 

Revised: 08/24/2011

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