Comparative Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh
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Malagana Site Dataset
Hernando Javier Giraldo Tenorio

Lithics Analysis

The data files LITHICS.TXT and LITHICS.XLS provide lithic artifact counts for each collection lot. LITHICS.TXT is a comma delimited ASCII text file, LITHICS.XLS contains the same data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. Each line in the ASCII file provides the number of artifacts by type. There are 497 lines, each with 11 variables separated by commas. The variables are listed in the following order:

1 Collection lot of approximately 25 x 25 meters.
2 East Coordinate (UTM for zone/sector 18N) for Northeast corner of the collection lot.
3 North Coordinate (UTM for zone/sector 18N) for Northeast corner of the collection lot.
4 Number of (2 x 4 m) collection units needed to gather a minimum of 40 surface artifacts.
5 Number of Early El Bolo local stone debitage.
6 Number of Late El Bolo local stone debitage
7 Number of greenstone debitage.
8 Number of slate debitage.
9 Number of greenstone beads.
10 Number of rock crystal beads.
11 Notes about other types of artifacts found, if any.

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

2A6,1080747,876107,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,

Which means that the sherds came from collection lot 2A6. The North-East corner of the collection lot is located at Easting UTM coordinate 1080747, and Northing UTM coordinate 876107. Up to 3 collection units were needed to gather the minimum of 40 artifacts required by the field methodology. No lithic artifacts were collected, and no other type of artifact was noted either.

The last (497th) line of the ASCII text file is:

31B11,1082048,875876,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,

Which means that the sherds came from collection lot 31B11. The North-East corner of the collection lot is located at Easting UTM coordinate 1082048, and Northing UTM coordinate 875876. Up to 3 collection units were needed to gather the minimum of 40 artifacts required by the field methodology. No lithic artifacts were collected, and no other type of artifact was noted either.

Download the file LITHICS.TXT (18 KB) or the file LITHICS.XLS (83 KB).

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