This dataset complements the book Prehispanic Change in the Mesitas Community: Documenting the Development of a Chiefdom's Central Place in San Agustín, Huila, Colombia  by Víctor González F. (available from University of Pittsburgh Latin American Archaeology Publications). It provides detailed data on the quantities of artifacts recovered in each individual shovel probe excavated in the Mesitas community and discussed in full in the printed volume.

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

• Chapter 1: Chiefdoms in the Alto Magdalena
• Chapter 2: Delimiting the Archaeological Community
• Chapter 3: Household Location and Agricultural Resources
• Chapter 4: Sherd Densities and Demographic Dynamics
• Chapter 5: Artifact Assemblages and Household Activities
• Chapter 6: The Sequence of Change at Mesitas

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:

González F., Víctor (2007a) Prehispanic Change in the Mesitas Community: Documenting the Development of a Chiefdom's Central Place in San Agustín, Huila, Colombia. University of Pittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology, No. 18.

González F., Víctor (2007b) Mesitas Community Dataset. Latin American Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh. URL: <http://www.pitt.edu/~laad/>