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Distribution of shell, ceramics, and high status objects, Secowocomoco.
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Results of XRF testing of copper artifacts and sample.
Ochre would have been used as a pigment for body decoration, but is also associated with burials.27 A total of seven fragments of a tem- per-less undecorated ware were recovered from the site. These temper-less fragments may be examples of Colonoware or Camden ware, types found only on Contact-period sites.
Artifacts definitively pointing to this site be- ing the settlement of Secowocomoco that Smith saw may not be readily apparent, but strong circumstantial evidence is there. First, the time- depth of the site points to it having been a per- sistent place continually used by native peoples for thousands of years. The size of the site and the
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