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POVERTY POINT OBJECTS FROM THE CLAIBORNE SITE (22-HG-35)
The large numbers of Poverty Point objects found at the Claiborne site on the Pearl River estuary, in Hancock County, Mississippi, affords an opportunity to make comparisons with those from the Poverty Point and Jaketown sites. Claiborne is the first coastal site from which considerable numbers of these objects have derived and it is of especial interest to compare its objects with those from the valley sites, several hundred miles inland. Three different river systems are involved.
During March and April, 1969, the senior author studied the collections from Claiborne site of R.C. Lowry, Jr., (now deceased) and Charles Satchfield, both members of the Mississippi Archeological Association and resident in Biloxi, also that of W.M. Walden, Slidell, Louisiana. The Poverty Point objects in these collections were classified and tabulated by Webb, with assistance of the owners, members of the Webb family and Sherwood M. Gagliano. To these tabulations were added the prior classifications of objects in the collection of Gary Kraus,
Metairie, Louisiana (Webb 1968) and the collection made by the Webb family during several visits to the site. The classification is therefore directly comparable to that from the Poverty Point site. A total of 12,714 Poverty Point objects was available from Claiborne; of these 1270 could not be typed because of breakage or excessive wear, leaving 11,444 typed objects (Table 11) that form the basis of the following comparisons.
Certain general.differences are immediately apparent. The objects from Claiborne are made of coarse, gritty sand with only enough clay to compact them; those from Jaketown are of a uniform fine sandy clay, while objects from Poverty Point are of fine clay with minimal amounts of fine sand. The surfaces of dry objects reflect these differences:	those	from