Comparative Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh
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Fuxin Settlement Dataset
Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Mingyu Teng, Ido Wachtel,
Chen Zeigen, and Xiongfei Wan

Ceramics from Excavation Area 12D16

The data files EXCERAM_12D16.TXT and EXCERAM_12D16.XLS provide sherd counts by period from excavation area 12D16 (sherds from Xiaohexi and Xinglongwa periods are additionally broken down by decoration type, vessel form, and temper). EXCERAM_12D16.TXT is a comma delimited ASCII text file; EXCERAM_12D16.XLS contains the same data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. Each line in the ASCII file represents the contents of one basket within a given excavation unit. There are 462 lines, each with 38 variables separated by commas. The variables are listed in the following order:

1 The basket number within an excavation unit.
2 The code of the excavation unit.
3 Total Number of sherds in basket
4 Total number of unknown (unclassified) sherds
5 Total number of modern sherds (post-Liao times)
6 Total number of sherds used for drawing
7 Total number of Xiaohexi sherds
8 Number of Xiaohexi sherds with clay stripes decoration
9 Number of Xiaohexi sherds with lines of dots decoration
10 Number of Xiaohexi sherds with plant impressions decoration
11 Number of Xiaohexi sherds with other types of decoration
12 Number of Xiaohexi sherds belonging to a Guan vessel form with sand tempering
13 Number of Xiaohexi sherds belonging to a Guan vessel form with clay tempering
14 Number of Xiaohexi sherds belonging to a Bo vessel form with sand tempering
15 Number of Xiaohexi sherds belonging to a Bo vessel form with clay tempering
16 Number of Xiaohexi sherds belonging to other vessel forms with sand tempering
17 Number of Xiaohexi sherds belonging to other vessel forms with clay tempering
18 Total number of Xinglongwa sherds
19 Number of Xinglongwa sherds with Xuanwen decoration
20 Number of Xinglongwa sherds with z pattern decoration
21 Number of Xinglongwa sherds with x pattern decoration
22 Number of Xinglongwa sherds with Kendianwen decoration
23 Number of Xinglongwa sherds with Duiwen decoration
24 Number of Xinglongwa sherds with other types of decoration
25 Number of Xinglongwa sherds belonging to a Guan vessel form with sand tempering
26 Number of Xinglongwa sherds belonging to a Guan vessel form with clay tempering
27 Number of Xinglongwa sherds belonging to a Bo vessel form with sand tempering
28 Number of Xinglongwa sherds belonging to a Bo vessel form with clay tempering
29 Number of Xinglongwa sherds belonging to other vessel forms with sand tempering
30 Number of Xinglongwa sherds belonging to other vessel forms with clay tempering
31 Total number of Zhaobaogou sherds
32 Total number of Hongshan sherds
33 Total number of Xiaoheyan sherds
34 Total number of Lower Xiajiadian sherds
35 Total number of Gaotaishan sherds
36 Total number of Linghe sherds
37 Total number of Zhanguo-Han sherds
38 Total number of Liao sherds

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

1000,A100,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

This means that the basket number is 1000 from unit A1000, which did not produce sherds of any kind.

The last, or 462nd line of the ASCII text file is:

9314,I949B,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 means that the basket number is 9314 from unit I949B, which did not produce sherds of any kind.

Download the file EXCERAM_12D16.TXT (38 KB) or the file EXCERAM_12D16.XLS (155 KB).


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