These include soot-covered cooking pots of simple form, but also fragments of highly polished vessels with a sharp carination at mid body. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2008 - Field Note 2] Reference
The mottled brown polished pottery with the carination, or sharp angled turn of the body, indicates an early Naqada I or possibly Badarian (4000 B.C.) occupation of the area. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2008 - Field Note 2] Reference
Although he makes the point that the periphery is "hardly to be called keeled", to me "carinated", "angular" and "keeled" all mean more or less the same thing, especially when the degree of carination is variable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
The third site, Massingir 4/75, only 35 km upstream from the others, contained what author Ricardo Duarte described as "an essentially different pottery," 23 including globular vessels with straight-walled necks, no carination, and a fairly distinct set of decorative patterns. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
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