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This dataset complements the book Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization. Chipped Stone Evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region, Honduras, by Kazuo Aoyama (available from University of Pittsburgh Latin American Archaeology Publications). It includes detailed information on the lithic analysis performed by the author on chipped stone artifacts from the Early Classic and Late Classic periods (Chapters 7 and 8).
The Table of Contents of the published volume:
Questions or comments about this dataset or the Latin American Archaeology Database can be directed to laad@pitt.edu via email. Users of the dataset are requested to credit the source of the information with bibliographic references to both the printed volume and the on-line dataset, as follows:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Methodology
- Chapter 3: Early Preclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages
- Chapter 4: Middle Preclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages
- Chapter 5: Late Preclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages
- Chapter 6: Protoclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages
- Chapter 7: Early Classic Chipped Stone Assemblages
- Chapter 8: Late Classic Chipped Stone Assemblages
- Chapter 9: Early Postclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages
- Chapter 10: Summary and Conclusions
- Appendix: Electronic Access to the Full Dataset
Aoyama, Kazuo (1999a) Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization. Chipped Stone Evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region, Honduras . University of Pittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology, No. 12.
Aoyama, Kazuo (1999b) Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization. Chipped Stone Evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region Database. Latin American Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh. <URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~laad/>
| These data files are organized in two formats: Excel format files, that can be read directly, and ASCII text files that can be easily imported to an application program such as a database manager or statistics package. The following tables correspond to the Tables with prefix A cited in the book. |
| Table A1: Technological analysis of chert chipped stone artifacts for each Early Classic period context. (Chapter 7, p. 91) | Table A2: Technological analysis of obsidian chipped stone artifacts for each Early Classic period context. (Chapter 7, p. 107) |
| Table A3: Obsidian availability indices for each Early Classic period context, Copan Valley. (Chapter 7, p. 107) | Table A4: Number of artifacts selected for use-wear analysis, number of used artifacts, and IUZ per artifact type for each Early Classic period context. (Chapter 7, p. 121) |
| Table A5: Motion of use on chipped stone artifacts from each Early Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 7, p. 121) | Table A6: Materials worked with chipped stone artifacts from each Early Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 7, p. 121) |
| Table A7: Activities performed with chipped stone artifacts from each Early Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 7, p. 123) | Table A8: Technological analysis of chert chipped stone artifacts for each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 127) |
| Table A9: Technological analysis of obsidian chipped stone artifacts for each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 127, 155, 165) | Table A10: Obsidian availability indices for each Late Classic period context, Copan Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 127) |
| Table A11: Technological analysis of chert chipped stone artifacts for each Late Classic period context in the La Entrada Region. (Chapter 8, p. 127) | Table A12: Technological analysis of obsidian chipped stone artifacts for each Late Classic period context in the La Entrada Region. (Chapter 8, p. 127) |
| Table A13: Obsidian availibility indices for each site, Late Classic period, La Entrada region. (Chapter 8, p. 127) | Table A14: Number of artifacts from each context selected for use-wear analysis, used artifacts, and IUZ per artifact type, Late Classic period in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 169) |
| Table A15: Motion of use on chipped stone artifacts from each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 169) | Table A16: Materials worked with chipped stone artifacts from each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 169) |
| Table A17: Activities performed with chipped stone artifacts from each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 169) |