COPÁN VALLEY AND LA ENTRADA DATASET--TABLE OF CONTENTS

This dataset complements the book Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization. Chipped Stone Evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region, Honduras, by Kazuo Aoyama (available from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology). It includes detailed information on the lithic analysis performed by the author on chipped stone artifacts from the Early Classic and Late Classic periods (Chapters 7 and 8).

The Table of Contents of the published volume:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Methodology

Chapter 3: Early Preclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages

Chapter 4: Middle Preclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages

Chapter 5: Late Preclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages

Chapter 6: Protoclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages

Chapter 7: Early Classic Chipped Stone Assemblages

Chapter 8: Late Classic Chipped Stone Assemblages

Chapter 9: Early Postclassic Chipped Stone Assemblages

Chapter 10: Summary and Conclusions

Appendix: Electronic Access to the Full Dataset

Questions or comments about this dataset or the Comparative Archaeology Database can be directed to cadb@pitt.edu via email.

Aoyama, Kazuo (1999a) Ancient Maya State, Urbanism, Exchange, and Craft Specialization. Chipped Stone Evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region, Honduras . University of Pittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology, No. 12.
Aoyama, Kazuo (1999b) Copán Valley and La Entrada Region Dataset. Comparative Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh. URL: <http://www.cadb.pitt.edu>.

CONTENTS OF THE DATASET

These data files are organized in two formats: Excel files, that can be read directly, and ASCII text files that can be easily imported to an application program such as a database manager or statistics package. The following tables correspond to the Tables with prefix A cited in the book.

Table A1: Technological analysis of chert chipped stone artifacts for each Early Classic period context. (Chapter 7, p. 91)	Table A2: Technological analysis of obsidian chipped stone artifacts for each Early Classic period context. (Chapter 7, p. 107)
Table A3: Obsidian availability indices for each Early Classic period context, Copan Valley. (Chapter 7, p. 107)	Table A4: Number of artifacts selected for use-wear analysis, number of used artifacts, and IUZ per artifact type for each Early Classic period context. (Chapter 7, p. 121)
Table A5: Motion of use on chipped stone artifacts from each Early Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 7, p. 121)	Table A6 : Materials worked with chipped stone artifacts from each Early Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 7, p. 121)
Table A7: Activities performed with chipped stone artifacts from each Early Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 7, p. 123)	Table A8 : Technological analysis of chert chipped stone artifacts for each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 127)
Table A9 : Technological analysis of obsidian chipped stone artifacts for each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 127, 155, 165)	Table A10 : Obsidian availability indices for each Late Classic period context, Copan Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 127)
Table A11: Technological analysis of chert chipped stone artifacts for each Late Classic period context in the La Entrada Region. (Chapter 8, p. 127)	Table A12: Technological analysis of obsidian chipped stone artifacts for each Late Classic period context in the La Entrada Region. (Chapter 8, p. 127)
Table A13 : Obsidian availibility indices for each site, Late Classic period, La Entrada region. (Chapter 8, p. 127)	Table A14 : Number of artifacts from each context selected for use-wear analysis, used artifacts, and IUZ per artifact type, Late Classic period in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 169)
Table A15: Motion of use on chipped stone artifacts from each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 169)	Table A16 : Materials worked with chipped stone artifacts from each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 169)
Table A17: Activities performed with chipped stone artifacts from each Late Classic period context in the Copán Valley. (Chapter 8, p. 169)

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