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Comparative Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh
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El Hatillo Household Dataset |
The data files LITHIC.TXT and LITHIC.XLS contain data on the quantities of lithic materials recovered from each provenience during excavations of domestic units at El Hatillo. LITHIC.TXT is a comma delimited ASCII text file, which should be easy to import into spreadsheet, database, and statistical programs for manipulation and analysis. LITHIC.XLS contains the same data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet which is easier to browse, and can also be imported into many programs. Each line on the comma delimited file represents one provenience. There are 141 lines, each with 30 variables separated by commas. The variables are, in the following order:
| 1 | Area |
| 2 | Zone (Stratum) |
| 3 | Excavation Unit(s) |
| 4 | raw Material (not included in totals) |
| 5 | utilized flake |
| 6 | retouched flake (no usewear) |
| 7 | flake (no utilization) |
| 8 | bifacially worked scraping/chopping tool |
| 9 | burin |
| 10 | drill |
| 11 | projectile point |
| 12 | exhausted core |
| 13 | hammerstone |
| 14 | tool blank/unfinished tool (no usewear) |
| 15 | Trifacial Point |
| 16 | burnishing/polishing stone |
| 17 | mano |
| 18 | breadboard metate |
| 19 | decorated metate |
| 20 | axe/adze |
| 21 | axe flake |
| 22 | indeterminate ground and polished fragment |
| 23 | indeterminate ground only fragment (no polish) |
| 24 | unifacially worked scraping/chopping tool |
| 25 | unidirectional core |
| 26 | multidirectional core |
| 27 | indetrminate polish (not ground) |
| 28 | Total lithics per unit |
| 29 | Total lithics per zone |
| 30 | Total lithics per area |
The first line of the ASCII text file, for example, looks like this:
A,2,1,,,,3,,,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,4,9,188
Which means that the lithic assemblage belongs to Area A, Zone (Stratum) 2, Excavation Unit(s) 1. This provenience contains 0 raw material (not included in totals), 0 utilized flakes, 0 retouched flakes (no usewear), 3 flakes (no utilization), 0 bifacially worked scraping/chopping tools, 0 burins, 3 drill, 0 projectile points, 0 exhausted cores, 0 hammerstones, 0 tool blank/unfinished tools (no usewear), 0 Trifacial Points, 0 burnishing/polishing stones, 0 manos, 0 breadboard metates, 0 decorated metates, 0 axe/adzes, 0 axe flakes, 0 indeterminate ground and polished fragments, 0 indeterminate ground only fragments (no polish), 0 unifacially worked scraping/chopping tools, 0 unidirectional core, 0 multidirectional cores, 0 indetrminate polishs (not ground), 4 Total lithics per units, 9 Total lithics per zones, 188 Total lithics per area.
On the other hand, the last, or 86th, line of the ASCII text file is:
F,13,F7,, ,,4,,,,,2,,,,,1,,,,2,,,,,,,9,9,81
Which means that the lithic assemblage belongs to Area F, Zone (Stratum) 13, Excavation Unit(s) F7. This provenience contains 0 raw material (not included in totals), 0 utilized flakes, 0 retouched flakes (no usewear), 4 flakes (no utilization), 0 bifacially worked scraping/chopping tools, 0 burins, 0 drills, 0 projectile points, 2 exhausted cores, 0 hammerstones, 0 tool blank/unfinished tools (no usewear), 0 Trifacial Points, 0 burnishing/polishing stones, 1 mano, 0 breadboard metates, 0 decorated metates, 0 axe/adzes, 2 axe flakes, 0 indeterminate ground and polished fragments, 0 indeterminate ground only fragments (no polish), 0 unifacially worked scraping/chopping tools, 0 unidirectional core, 0 multidirectional cores, 0 indetrminate polishs (not ground), 9 Total lithics per units, 9 Total lithics per zones, 81 Total lithics per area.
Click here to download the file LITHIC.TXT (6 KB) or the file LITHIC.XLS (85 KB).