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Copán Valley and La Entrada Region Dataset
Kazuo Aoyama

TABLE A8

Technological Analysis of Chert Chipped Stone Artifacts for Each Context,
Late Classic Period, Copan Valley

EXCEL FORMAT - TAB_A08.XLS

This file contains the data in a spreadsheet, Excel format (.xls), to be read directly. Click here to see the file TAB_A08.XLS (24,064 bytes).

ASCII FORMAT - TAB_A08.TXT

This file contains the data from 112 contexts with chert artifacts from the Copan valley, Late Classic period. The contents for every context are presented in one line, the data file TAB_A08.TXT has 112 lines with 34 variables separated with commas. The 34 variables are, in the following order:

1 Physiographic zone
2 Subcommunity
3 Group
4 Site Type
5 Structure
6 Operation
7 Prismatic blades (N)
8 Prismatic blades (%)
9 Polyhedral cores (N)
10 Polyhedral cores (%)
11 Bifacial points (N)
12 Bifacial points (%)
13 Bifacial thinning flakes (N)
14 Bifacial thinning flakes (%)
15 General debitage (N)
16 General debitage (%)
17 Scrapers (N)
18 Scrapers (%)
19 Notched flakes (N)
20 Notched flakes (%)
21 Denticulates (N)
22 Denticulates (%)
23 Drills (N)
24 Drills (%)
25 Flake cores (N)
26 Flake cores (%)
27 Choppers (N)
28 Choppers (%)
29 Chopping-tools (N)
30 Chopping-tools (N)
31 Eccentrics (N)
32 Eccentrics (%)
33 Total (N)
34 Total (%)

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

"Montanas","","","","","IV/25",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,18,90,1,5,0,0,0, 0,0,0,1,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,20,100

This context belongs to the physiographic zone "Montanas", there is no subcommunity, nor group, site type or structure. The operation is "IV/25". There are 0 prismatic blades (0%), 0 polyhedral cores (0%), 0 bifacial points (0%), 0 bifacial thinning flakes (0%), 18 general debitage (90.0%), 1 scraper (5.0%), 0 notched flakes (0%), 0 denticulates (0%), 0 drills (0%), 1 flake core (5.0%), 1 chopper (0.5%), 0 chopping tool (0%) and 0 eccentrics (0%), with a total of 20 artifacts (100.0%). The quotation marks around "Montanas" and "IV/25" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

The last (112th) line is:

"Vega","Principal Group","10L-1","5","10L-22A","44/3",0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,1,50,1,50,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,100

Which indicates the physiographic zone "Vega", subcommunity "Principal Group", group "10L-1", site type "5", structure "10L-22A". Belongs to the operation "44/3". There are 0 prismatic blades (0%), 0 polyhedral cores (0%), 0 bifacial points (0%), 0 bifacial thinning flakes (0%), 1 general debitage (50.0%), 1 scraper (50.0%), 0 notched flakes (0%), 0 denticulates (0%), 0 drills (0%), 0 flake cores (0%), 0 choppers (0%), 0 chopping tool (0%) and 0 eccentrics (0%), with a total of 2 artifacts (100.0%). The quotation marks around "Vega" and "Principal Group" indicate that these variables are alphanumeric and "" indicates the absence of data.

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