Grooved Stones
An irregular shaped piece of hematite ([Fig. 16], I) has several narrow, intersecting grooves running across one face. The grooves are set at apparently random angles. On the opposite face of this fragment is part of a deep, gouged out pit where the red pigment was evidently scraped away for use as paint.
A piece of fine grained sandstone ([Fig. 16], H) has a broad U-shaped groove across one face. The groove is 20 mm. wide and 6 mm. deep.
Several small pieces of hematite bearing faint scratches were probably used as sources of pigment.
Pitted Stones
There are four pieces of sandstone and hematite with more or less flat sides that have small, circular pits pecked into them ([Fig. 16], K). Three have one pit each, the other has two pits on opposite sides of the stone. The pits are all between 2.5 and 3.0 cm. wide and they vary from 4 to 8 mm. deep.
Miscellaneous Ground Stone Artifacts
Three small pieces of stone are smoothed on one face. One is a cobble measuring 17.7 cm. long, 5.8 cm. wide, and 3.3 cm. thick. The others are too fragmentary for reconstruction, but seem to be pieces of small grinding slabs.
PROVENIENCE OF THE ARTIFACTS
The provenience of the artifacts at the Harroun Site is summarized in [Table 1]. It is clear that the artifacts associated with each house, with the fill of each mound, and with the upper part of the floodplain deposits are quite similar, in the main, throughout the site. Or put another way, each major type or category of artifacts is more or less evenly distributed over the site. This supports the conclusion that the burial, the four houses, the four mounds, and most of the artifacts in the upper part of the floodplain are associated with a single occupation of the site by one cultural group. Architectural and structural data from the mounds point toward the same conclusion.