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 A12
  Technological Analysis of Obsidian Chipped Stone Artifacts for Each Site, Late Classic Period, La Entrada Region

    EXCEL FORMAT - TAB_A12.XLS

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    ASCII FORMAT - TAB_A12.TXT

This file contains the data from 29 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_A12.TXT has 29 lines with 30 variables separated with commas. The 30 variables are, in the following order:
 
 

1 
 Valley
2 
 Site Name 
3 
 Site Number
4 
 Site Category
5 
 Prismatic blades (N)
6 
 Prismatic blades (%)
7 
 Macroblades (N)
8 
 Macroblades (%)
9 
 Polyhedral cores (N)
10 
 Polyhedral cores (%)
11 
 Prismatic blade points (N)
12 
 Prismatic blade points (%)
13 
 Bifacial Points (N)
14 
 Bifacial Points (%)
15 
 General debitage (N)
16 
 General debitage (%)
17 
 Scrapers (N)
18 
 Scrapers (%)
19 
 Notched flakes (N)
20 
 Notched flakes (%)
21 
 Denticulates (N)
22 
 Denticulates (%)
23 
 Drills (N)
24 
 Drills (%)
25 
 Flake cores (N)
26 
 Flake cores (%)
27 
 Eccentrics (N)
28 
 Eccentrics (%)
29 
 Total (N)
30 
 Total (%)
  

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

"La Florida","490","","(2)",4,57.1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,3,42.9,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,7,100.0

The first context analyzed belongs to the "La Florida" valley, site "490", no site number, site category "(2)". There are 4 prismatic blades (57.1%), 0 macroblades (0%), 0 polyhedral cores (0%), 0 bifacial points (0%), 3 general debitage (42.9%), 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 7 artifacts (100.0%). The quotation marks around "LaFlorida" and "489" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

The last (29th) line is:

"La Venta","Los Higos","50","(5)",78,80.4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,14,14.4,5,5.2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,97,100.0

Which indicates the valley "La Venta", site "Los Higos", site number "50", site category "(5)". There are 78 prismatic blades (80.4%), 0 macroblades (0%), 0 polyhedral cores (0%), 0 bifacial points (0%), 14 general debitage (14.4%), 5 scrapers (5.2%), 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 97 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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