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 A5
  Motion-of-use on Chipped Stone Artifacts from Each Context, Early Classic Period, Copan Valley.

    EXCEL FORMAT - TAB_A05.XLS

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    ASCII FORMAT - TAB_A05.TXT

This file contains the data from 13 contexts with lithic artifacts from the Copan valley. The contents for every context are presented in one line, the data file TAB_A05.TXT has 13 lines, with 25 variables separated with commas. The 25 variables are, in the following order:
 
 

1 
 Physiographic zone
2 
 Sub-community 
3 
 Group
4 
 Structure/Platform/Plaza
5 
 Operation
6 
 Lot Number
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 
 Scraping or whittling (N)
21 
 Scraping or whittling (%)
22 
 Unidentified motion (N)
23 
 Unidentified motion (%)
24 
 Total IUZ (N)
25 
 Total IUZ (%)
  

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

"Vega","El Bosque","","","IV/99","31,32,36,37","midden",75,61.0,1,0.8,9,7.3,36,29.3,1,0.8,0,0,0,0,1,0.8,123,100.0

The first context analyzed belongs to the physiographic zone "Vega", subcommunity "El Bosque", no group. There is no structure, platform or plaza number. It belongs to the operation "IV/99", lot numbers "31,32,36,37" and the context is a "midden". From this context there are 75 artifacts (61.0%) for cutting or sawing, 1 artifact (0.8%) for grooving, 9 artifacts (7.3%) for scraping, 36 artifacts (29.3%) for whittling, 1 artifacts (0.8%) for boring, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for piercing, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for scraping or whittling and 1 artifacts (0.8%) of an unidentified motion. The quotation marks around "Vega", "El Bosque", "IV/99" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

The last (13th) line is:

"Vega","Principal Group","10L-1","Great Plaza","V/63/7","","midden",68,73.1,0,0,8,8.6,17,18.3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,93,100.0

Which indicates the physiographic zone "Vega", subcommunity "Principal Group", group "10L-1", structure "Great Plaza". It belongs to the operation "V/63/7", there is no lot number and the context is a "midden". From this context there are 68 artifacts (73.1%) for cutting or sawing, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for grooving, 8 artifacts (8.6%) for scraping, 17 artifacts (18.3%) for whittling, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for boring, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for piercing, 0 artifacts (0.0%) for scraping or whittling and 0 artifacts (0.0%) of an unidentified motion. 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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