EL VENADO DATASET

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El Venado Dataset Ana María Boada Rivas

This dataset complements the book The Evolution of Social Hierarchy in a Muisca Chiefdom of the Northern Andes of Colombia by Ana María Boada Rivas (available from University of Pittsburgh Latin American Archaeology Publications). It includes detailed information on the burials, ceramic artifacts, and faunal remains recovered in the excavations at El Venado described in that volume.

The Table of Contents of the published volume is as follows:

Chapter 1: The Evolution of Bases of Social Hierarchy

Chapter 2: Methodology for Analyzing Social Hierarchy at El Venado

Chapter 3: El Venado Site

Chapter 4: Chronology of El Venado

Chapter 5: The Late Herrera Period

Chapter 6: The Early Muisca Period

Chapter 7: The Late Muisca Period

Chapter 8: Conclusions

Questions or comments about this dataset or the Latin American Archaeology Database can be directed to laad@pitt.edu via email. Users of the dataset are requested to credit the source of the information with bibliographic references to both the printed volume and the on-line dataset, as follows:

Boada Rivas, Ana María (2007a) The Evolution of Social Hierarchy in a Muisca Chiefdom of the Northern Andes of Colombia. University of Pittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology, No. 17.

Boada Rivas, Ana María (2007b) El Venado Dataset. Latin American Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh. URL: <http://www.pitt.edu/~laad/>

CONTENTS OF THE DATASET
These data files are organized in the form of ASCII text files that can be read directly or easily imported to an application program such as a database manager or statistics package.

Burials: Information on grave or tomb structure, body position, offerings, etc. Human teeth: Information from analysis of the teeth of the burials, including age, sex, dental pathologies, etc.
Ceramic vessel diameters: Rim diameters for vessels from burials and other contexts. Ceramic forms: Quantities of sherds of different vessel forms from excavated contexts.
Ceramic types: Quantities of sherds of different ceramic types from excavated contexts. Faunal remains: Quantities of remains of different faunal taxa from excavated contexts.

An additional .pdf file contains detailed descriptions of all the excavations and all the burials (complete with plans, profile drawings, and photographs).

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Burials: Information on grave or tomb structure, body position, offerings, etc.	Human teeth: Information from analysis of the teeth of the burials, including age, sex, dental pathologies, etc.
Ceramic vessel diameters: Rim diameters for vessels from burials and other contexts.	Ceramic forms: Quantities of sherds of different vessel forms from excavated contexts.
Ceramic types: Quantities of sherds of different ceramic types from excavated contexts.	Faunal remains: Quantities of remains of different faunal taxa from excavated contexts.