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Copán Valley and La Entrada Region Dataset
Kazuo Aoyama

TABLE A11

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

EXCEL FORMAT - TAB_A11.XLS

This file contains the data in a spreadsheet, Excel format (.xls), to be read directly. Click here to see the file TAB_A11.XLS (24,064 bytes).

ASCII FORMAT- TAB_A11.TXT

This file contains the data from 28 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_A11.TXT has 28 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 Bifacial points (N)
12 Bifacial points (%)
13 General debitage (N)
14 General debitage (%)
15 Scrapers (N)
16 Scrapers (%)
17 Notched flakes (N)
18 Notched flakes (%)
19 Denticulates (N)
20 Denticulates (%)
21 Drills (N)
22 Drills (%)
23 Flake cores (N)
24 Flake cores (%)
25 Choppers (N)
26 Choppers (%)
27 Chopping-tools (N)
28 Chopping-tools (%)
29 Total (N)
30 Total (%)

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

"LaFlorida","489","","(2)",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,100.0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0,5,100.0

The first context analyzed belongs to the "La Florida" valley, site "489", no site number, site category "(2)". There are 0 prismatic blades (0%), 0 macroblades (0%), 0 polyhedral cores (0%), 0 bifacial points (0%), 5 general debitage (100.0%), 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 5 artifacts (100.0%). The quotation marks around "LaFlorida" and "489" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

The last (28th) line is:

"LaVenta","LosHigos","50","(5)",1,0.3,0,0,0,0,0,0,266,90.2,14,4.7,1, 0.3,3,1.0,0,0,6,2.0,0,0,4,1.4,295,100.0

This indicates the valley "La Venta", site "Los Higos", site number "50", site category "(5)". There is 1 prismatic blade (0.3%), 0 macroblades (0%), 0 polyhedral cores (0%), 0 bifacial points (0%), 266 general debitage (90.2%), 14 scrapers (4.7%), 1 notched flakes (0.3%), 3 denticulates (1.0%), 0 drills (0%), 6 flake cores (2.0%), 0 choppers (0%) and 4 chopping tools (1.4%), with a total of 295 artifacts (100.0%). The quotation marks around "LaVenta" and "LosHigos" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

Click here to download the file TAB_A11.TXT (3,889 bytes).


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