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 A11
  Technological Analysis of Chert Chipped Stone Artifacts for Each Site, Late Classic Period, La Entrada Region

   EXCEL FORMAT - TAB_A11.XLS

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   ASCII FORMAT- TAB_A11.TXT

This file contains the data from 28 contexts in the La Entrada region with chert chipped stone artifacts. The contents for every context are presented in one line, the data file TAB_A11.TXT has 28 lines with 30 variables separated with commas. The 30 variables are, in the following order:
 
 

Valley
Site Name
Site Number
Site Category
Prismatic blades (N)
Prismatic blades (%)
Macroblades (N)
Macroblades (%)
Polyhedral cores (N)
10 
Polyhedral cores (%)
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 
Chopping-tools (N)
28 
Chopping-tools (%)
29 
Total (N)
30 
Total (%)
  

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

"LaFlorida","489","","(2)",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,100.0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,100.0

The first context analyzed belongs to the "La Florida" valley, site "489", no site number, site category "(2)". There are 0 prismatic blades (0%), 0 macroblades (0%), 0 polyhedral cores (0%), 0 bifacial points (0%), 5 general debitage (100.0%), 0 scrapers (0%), 0 notched flakes (0%), 0 denticulates (0%), 0 drills (0%), 0 flake cores (0%), 0 choppers (0%) and 0 chopping tools (0%), with a total of 5 artifacts (100.0%). The quotation marks around "LaFlorida" and "489" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

The last (28th) line is:

"LaVenta","LosHigos","50","(5)",1,0.3,0,0,0,0,0,0,266,90.2,14,4.7,1,0.3,3,1.0,0,0,6,2.0,0,0,4,1.4,295,100.0

This indicates the valley "La Venta", site "Los Higos", site number "50", site category "(5)". There is 1 prismatic blade (0.3%), 0 macroblades (0%), 0 polyhedral cores (0%), 0 bifacial points (0%), 266 general debitage (90.2%), 14 scrapers (4.7%), 1 notched flakes (0.3%), 3 denticulates (1.0%), 0 drills (0%), 6 flake cores (2.0%), 0 choppers (0%) and 4 chopping tools (1.4%), with a total of 295 artifacts (100.0%). The quotation marks around "LaVenta" and "LosHigos" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

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