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 A15
  Motion-of-use on Chipped Stone Artifacts from Each Context, Late Classic Period, Copan Valley.

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    ASCII FORMAT - TAB_A15.TXT

This file contains the data from 28 contexts with lithic artifacts from the Copan valley. The contents for every context are presented in one line, the data file TAB_A15.TXT has 28 lines, with 27 variables separated with commas. The 27 variables are, in the following order:
 
 

1 
 Physiographic zone
2 
 Sub-community 
3 
 Group
4 
 Site Type
5 
 Structure
6 
 Operation
7 
 Context
8 
 Cutting or sawing (N)
9 
 Cutting or sawing (%)
10 
 Grooving (N)
11 
 Grooving (%)
12 
 Scraping (N)
13 
 Scraping (%)
14 
 Whittling (N)
15 
 Whittling (%)
16 
 Boring (N)
17 
 Boring (%)
18 
 Piercing (N)
19 
 Piercing (%)
20 
 Chopping (N)
21 
 Chopping (%)
22 
 Scraping or whittling (N)
23 
 Scraping or whittling (%)
24 
 Unidentified motion (N)
25 
 Unidentified motion (%)
26 
 Total IUZ (N)
27 
 Total IUZ (%)
  

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

"Montana","Algodonal","","","","IV/54","midden", 6,18.8,1,3.1,14,43.8,10,31.3,1,3.1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,32,100.0

The first context analyzed belongs to the physiographic zone "Montana", subcommunity "Algodonal", no group, site type or structure. It belongs to the operation "IV/54" and the context is a "midden". From this context there are 6 artifacts (18.8%) for cutting or sawing, 1 artifact (3.1%) for grooving, 14 artifacts (43.8%) for scraping, 10 artifacts (31.3%) for whittling, 1 artifacts (3.1%) for boring, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for piercing, 0 artifacts (0.0) for chopping, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for scraping or whittling and 0 artifacts (0.0%) of an unidentified motion; with a total of 32 independent use zones (100.0%). The quotation marks around "Vega", "El Bosque", "IV/99" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

The last (28th) line is:

"Vega","PrincipalGroup","10L-1","","GreatPlaza","39/I/372","midden", 71,84.5,0,0,8,9.5,3,3.6,0,0,0,0,2,2.4,0,0,0,0,84,100.0

Which indicates the physiographic zone "Vega", subcommunity "Principal Group", group "10L-1", structure "Great Plaza", there is no site type. It belongs to the operation "39/1/372" and the context is a "midden". From this context there are 71 artifacts (84.5%) for cutting or sawing, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for grooving, 8 artifacts (9.5%) for scraping, 3 artifacts (3.6%) for whittling, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for boring, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for piercing, 2 artifacts (2.4) for chopping, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for scraping or whittling and 0 artifacts (0.0%) of an unidentified motion; with a total of 84 independent use zones (100.0%). The quotation marks around "Vega", "Principal Group", "10L-1" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

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