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Comparative Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh
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Zingeyka River Valley Settlement Dataset |
The data files CERAMICTP.TXT and CERAMICTP.XLS provide context, temper, and decoration information for every ceramic sherd recovered through excavation test pits. CERAMICTP.TXT is a comma delimited ASCII text file; CERAMICTP.XLS contains the same data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. Each line in the ASCII file corresponds to one ceramic sherd. There are 1248 lines, each with 82 variables separated by commas. The variables are listed in the following order:
| 1 | Number of the collection unit where the test pit was located. These correspond to the ID numbers provided in the COLL_NUMBERS layer of the Map of Collection Units page of this dataset. |
| 2 | Collection unit name. Provides the Russian site registry name and number that correspond to the collection unit where the test pit was excavated. For sites encompassing more than one collection unit, a second sequential number is provided to uniquely identify each collection unit. Site names are provided for references purposes only, as the concept of "site" did not play any meaningful role in analysis. |
| 3 | Sherd ID. The unique identification code for each sherd gathered through test pit excavation begins with either a "w" or an "s", followed by an alphanumeric code specific to each test pit (these correspond to the numbers provided in the TEST_PIT_NUMBERS layer of the Location of Test Pits page of this dataset). This is followed by the lower depth of the 10 cm arbitrary excavation level from which the sherd came. The ID is fnished with the sequential number of each individual sherd in that level after the slash. |
| 4 | Archaeological culture assigned to the sherd. |
| 5 | Vessel number (for sherds that belong to a single vessel). |
| 6 | Period. MBA=Middle Bronze Age LBA=Late Bronze Age FBA=Final Bronze Age |
| 7 | Sherd type (body, rim, neck, shoulder, base, bottom, or unclear). |
| 8 | Weight (g). |
| 9 | Presence of decoration. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 10 | Talc temper. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 11 | Mica temper. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 12 | Quartz temper. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 13 | Grog temper. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 14 | Shell temper. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 15 | Organic temper (grass, manure). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 16 | Temper density (%). n/a=No temper. |
| 17 | Temper sorting. 1=Very poor 3=Fair 5=Very good |
| 18 | Smoothing. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 19 | Burnishing. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 20 | Striations left by scraping. Striations could have been applied by the following techniques: stamp (shtamp), wood chip (shepa), grass, or pebble (galka). 1=Present, but unable to tell the technique. 0=Absent. n/a=Sherd is badly damaged. |
| 21 | Relief of striations (deep, average, or shallow). 0=Striations absent. n/a=Sherd is badly damaged. |
| 22 | Light-brown. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 23 | Reddish-brown. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 24 | Grayish-brown. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 25 | Grayish-black. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 26 | Brownish-black. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 27 | Smoothed. 1=Yes 0=No n/a=Inner surface is badly damaged |
| 28 | Striations left by scraping. Striations could have been applied by the following techniques: stamp (shtamp), wood chip (shepa), grass, or pebble (galka). 1=Present, but unable to tell the technique. 0=Absent. |
| 29 | Relief of striations (deep, average, or shallow). 0=Striations absent. n/a=sherd is badly damaged. |
| 30 | Cloth imprints. 1=Present 0=Absent n/a=Sherd is badly damaged |
| 31 | Pot (gorshok). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 32 | Jar (banka). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 33 | Miniature vessel. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 34 | Orifice diameter (cm). |
| 35 | Percentage of the total vessel orifice circumference present. |
| 36 | Wall thickness (mm). n/a=Sherd was badly fragmented. |
| 37 | Bottom thickness (mm). |
| 38 | Vessel height (cm). |
| 39 | Flat (ploskiy). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 40 | Rounded (okruglyi). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 41 | Flat with smoothed appendage (ploskiy s naplyvom). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 42 | Beveled (kosoi srez). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 43 | Width of the bevel (mm) (if present). |
| 44 | Presence of ornament on the bevel. See "Ornamentation elements and their position on the vessel" section below for information on code numbers. |
| 45 | Collar (vorotnichek) 1=Yes 0=No |
| 46 | Collar height (mm). +=Collar present but height cannot be measured because of fragmentation. |
| 47 | Neck height (mm). |
| 48 | Straight. 1=Yes 0=No |
| 49 | Slightly bent outward (slegka otognutayta). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 50 | Substantially bent outward (silno otognutayta). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 51 | Presence of blank strip (svobodnaya polosa). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 52 | Ledge (ustup). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 53 | Angled (rebrom). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 54 | Angled-ledge (rebro-ustup). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 55 | Smoothed ledge (peregib). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 56 | Smooth (plavnyi perehod). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 57 | Truncated cone (usechenno-konicheskoye). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 58 | Slightly rounded (slegka razdutoye). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 59 | Position undetermined. |
| 60 | Rim. |
| 61 | Upper part of the neck. |
| 62 | Shoulder. |
| 63 | Lower neck. |
| 64 | All of the neck. |
| 65 | All of the body. |
| 66 | Upper body. |
| 67 | Lower body. |
| 68 | Bottom. |
| 69 | Distinct ormanetal zoning (razdeliteli). |
| 70 | Smoothed stamp (gladkiy shtamp). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 71 | Incising (procherchivanie). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 72 | Dragging of comb-stamp (protashennaya grebenka). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 73 | Fine comb-stamp (melkaya grebenka). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 74 | Average comb-stamp (srednaya grebenka). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 75 | Coarse comb-stamp (krupnaya grebenka). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 76 | Punctation (vdavleniya). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 77 | Wedge-shaped punctations (vdavleniya ugolkom greb. shtampa). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 78 | Fingernail punctation (nogtevye vdavleniya). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 79 | Fluting or straight grooves (kannelury). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 80 | Wavy grooves (zhelobki). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 81 | Neck as a seprate coil (sheika otdelnoi lentoi). 1=Yes 0=No |
| 82 | Visible traces of segmentation (sledy formovki). 1=Yes 0=No |
The first line of the ASCII text file, for example, looks like this:
3,Katsbah 1 3,w937-40a/1,?,Vessel 34,FBA,body,1.3,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,5,5,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,n/a,n/a,n/a,n/a,
0,0,0,0,0,n/a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,+,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
This sherd was recovered from a test pit excavated it collection unit number 3. The unique name of that collection unit, which incorporates the Russian site name, is Katsbah 1 3. The sherd was extracted from test pit w937, from an arbitrary level, the lower depth of which was -40 cm. It is the first sherd from the ceramic batch that came from that layer. The archaeological culture is unknown. This sherd is part of vessel number 34. It is a Final Bronze Age sherd. It is a body sherd that weighs 1.3 grams. It is decorated. It contains quartz temper at the density of 5%. The temper is very well sorted. The outer surface of this sherd is smoothed. The dominant color of the outer surface is grayish-brown. The inner surface of the sherd is badly damaged to the point where nothing could be said about the inner surface and the wall thickness could not be determined. Undetermined ornament is present on an undetermined part of the vessel. The ornament is applied using the average comb-stamp (srednaya grebenka) ornamental technique.
The last, or 1248st line of the ASCII text file is:
23,Zarya 11,w1123-40/1,?,0,LBA,unclear,4.7,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,10,3,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,n/a,n/a,n/a,n/a,0,0,0,0,0
,n/a,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
This sherd was recovered from a test pit excavated in collection unit number 23. The unique name of that collection unit, which incorporates the Russian site name, is Zarya 11. The sherd was extracted from test pit w1123 from an arbitrary level, the lower depth of which was -40 cm. It is the first sherd from the ceramic batch that came from that layer. The archaeological culture is unknown. It is a Late Bronze Age sherd. It is unclear what part of the vessel the sherd comes from. It weighs 4.7 grams. It is not decorated. It contains talc and quartz temper at the density of 10%. The temper’s sorting is average. The outer surface of this sherd is smoothed. The dominant color of the outer surface is grayish-brown. The inner surface of the sherd is badly damaged to the point where nothing could be said about the inner surface. The wall thickness could not be determined.
Download the file CERAMICTP.TXT (256 KB) or the file CERAMICTP.XLS (816 KB).
