Comparative Archaeology Database | Center for Comparative Archaeology | University of Pittsburgh
Lower Dover Community Dataset
The data files ARCHITECTURE.CSV and ARCHITECTURE.XLSX provide information on the calculated construction periods, population and labor force at different sites throughout different time periods. ARCHITECTURE.CSV is a comma delimited ASCII text file; ARCHITECTURE.XLSX contains the same data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.
[Comma delimited UTF-8 format]
[Excel format]
Each line in the .CSV file represents one site during a specific time period. There are 16 lines, each with 13 variables separated by commas. The variables are listed in the following order:
| 1 | Site |
| 2 | Period |
| 3 | Date Range |
| 4 | Person Days - number person days it took to build the combined architecture |
| 5 | Construction Period |
| 6 | Person Days per Construction Period - person days divided by the length of the time period |
| 7 | Commoner Population |
| 8 | Labor Force (65% Dependency) |
| 9 | Person Days per Year District Population (65% dependency) - person days per year divided by the district population who were the labor force |
| 10 | Including Lower Dover Core Person Days (65% dependency) |
| 11 | Labor Force (20% Dependency Ratio) |
| 12 | Person Days per Year District Population (20% dependency) - person days per year divided by the district population who were the labor force |
| 13 | Including Lower Dover Core Person Days (20% dependency) |
The first line of the .CSV file, for example, looks like this:
Floral Park,Middle Preclassic,900-300 BC,3428.654315,600,5.714423858,50,33,0.175828426,,10,0.571442386,
This means that the site is Floral Park, the construction phase is the Middle Preclassic, the time period is 900-300 BC, the combined architecture from this phase took 3428 days to build, the time period is 600 years, and this involves 5.7 person days per year, the district population at the time was 50 people, this would have involved 33 laboring individuals with a 65% dependency ratio, resulting in 0.17 person days per year for the district, or 10 individuals with a 20% dependency ratio, resulting in 0.57 person days.