Latin American Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh
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Chipped Stone evidence from the Copan Valley and the La Entrada Region
Database
Kazuo Aoyama 
 
 
  TABLE A1
  Technological Analysis of Chert Chipped Stone Artifacts from the Early Classic Period, Copan Valley

    EXCEL FORMAT - TAB_A01.XLS

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    ASCII FORMAT - TAB_A01.TXT

This file contains the data from 36 contexts with chert chipped artifacts from the Copán valley. The contents for every context are presented in one line, the data file TAB_A01.TXT has 36 lines, each with 28 variables separated by commas. The 28 variables are, in the following order:
 
 

1 
 Physiographic zone
2 
 Sub-community 
3 
 Group
4 
 Str.10L-26 stratigraphic sequence
5 
 Operation
6 
 Lot number
7 
 Prismatic blades (N)
8 
 Prismatic blades (%)
9 
 Macroblades (N)
10 
 Macroblades (%)
11 
 Bifacial points (N)
12 
 Bifacial points (%)
13 
 General debitage (N)
14 
 General debitage (%)
15 
 Scrapers (N)
16 
 Scrapers (%)
17 
 Notched flakes (N)
18 
 Notched flakes (%)
19 
 Denticulates (N)
20 
 Denticulates (%)
21 
 Drills (N)
22 
 Drills (%)
23 
 Flake cores (N)
24 
 Flake cores (%)
25 
 Choppers (N)
26 
 Choppers (%)
27 
 Total (N)
28 
 Total (%)
  

The first line of the file, for example, looks like this:

"Faldas","","","","IV/59","",0,0,0,0,1,0.5,173,93.0,10,5.4,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0.5,1,0.5,186,100.0

This context belongs to the physiographic zone "Faldas", there is no subcommunity, nor group or stratigraphic sequence. The operation is "IV/59", there is no lot number. This context contained 0 prismatic blades (0%), 0 macroblades (0%), 1 bifacial point (0.5%), 173 general debitage fragments (93.0%), 10 scrapers (5.4%), 0 notched flakes (0%), 0 denticulates (0%), 0 drills (0%), 1 flake core (0.5%), 1 chopper (0.5%), and the total number of chert artifacts is 186 (100.0%). The quotation marks around "Faldas" and "IV/59" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data for alphanumeric variables.

The last (36th) line is:

"Vega","PrincipalGroup","10L-1","","Great Plaza"," V/62,63",0,0,0,0,0,0,6,100.0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6,100.0

This context belongs to the physiographic zone "Vega", subcommunity "Principal Group", group "10L-1", does not presents stratigraphic sequence. Belongs to the operation "Grand Plaza", lot number "V/62,63". This context contained prismatic blades (0%), 0 macroblades (0%), 0 bifacial points (0%), 6 general debitage fragments (100.0%), 0 scrapers (0%), 0 notched flakes (0%), 0 denticulates (0%), 0 drills (0%), 0 flake cores (0%), 0 choppers (0%), and the total number of chert artifacts is 6 (100.0%). The quotation marks around "Vega" and "PrincipalGroup" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data for alphanumeric variables.

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