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Comparative Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh
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Yahuay Alta Community Dataset |
The data files SURFLITHICS.TXT and SURFLITHICS.XLS provide lithic counts organized by material type for each surface collection unit of the Yahuay Alta community. The data corresponds to Table B.7. (pp.445) of the dissertation associated with this dataset. SURFLITHICS.TXT is an ASCII text file; SURFLITHICS.XLS contains the same data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. Each line represents one collection lot. There are 134 lines in the text file, each with 16 variables separated by commas. The variables are, in the following order:
1 |
Sector |
2 |
Unit |
3 |
Total number of lithics |
4 |
Obsidian count |
5 |
Dacite count |
6 |
Rhyolite count |
7 |
Andesite count |
8 |
Chert count |
9 |
Fine-Grained Rhyolite count |
10 |
Copper Mineral count |
11 |
Quartz count |
12 |
Fine-grained Sandstone count |
13 |
River Cobble count |
14 |
River Pebble count |
15 |
Turquoise count |
16 |
Unidentifiable material count |
The first line of the ASCII text file, for example, looks like this:
F,1,15,0,1,1,0,7,2,0,4,0,0,0,0,0
This indicates that the data pertains lithics collected in sector F, Unit 1. This unit contained a total of 15 lithics, of which 0 were obsidian, 1 was dacite, 1 was rhyolite, 0 were andesite, 7 were chert, 0 were copper mineral, 4 were quartz, 0 were fine-grained sandstone, 0 were river cobble, 0 were river pebble, 0 were turquoise, and 0 were of an unidentifiable material.
The last, or 134th, line of the ASCII text file is:
A,138,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,7,0,0,0,0,0
This indicates that the data pertains to lithics collected in sector A, Unit 138. This unit contained a total of 7 lithics, all of which were quartz.
Click here to download the file SURFLITHICS.TXT (5 KB) or the file SURFLITHICS.XLS (41 KB).