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Comparative Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh
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He-4 (El Hatillo) Community Dataset |
The data files FAUNASTRAT.TXT and FAUNASTRAT.XLS provide the quantities of faunal material for every excavation level carried out within the study area. FAUNASTRAT.TXT is an ASCII text file; FAUNASTRAT.XLS contains the same data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. Each line corresponds to the specimens of a single taxon in a single level in one stratigraphic test. The number of lines for a particular excavated context thus corresponds to the number of different taxa encountered there. There are 195 lines in the text file, each with 8 variables separated by commas. The variables are, in the following order:
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Lot label. A unique identifier for each excavation level to which the specimens belong. |
2 |
Taxon |
3 |
Number of fragments (NISP) |
4 |
Number of specimens of the taxon that have high meat utility in the corresponding level. |
5 |
Number of specimens of the taxon that have medium meat utility in the corresponding level. |
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Number of specimens of the taxon that have low meat utility in the corresponding level. |
7 |
Number of specimens of the taxon that have unknown meat utility in the corresponding level. |
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Additional comments |
The first line of the ASCII text file, for example, looks like this:
He-4-01-01-05,deer,1,1,0,0,0,
This indicates that the faunal specimens pertain to excavation unit and level 01-01-05. In this level, there was 1 deer fragment, which had a high meat utility value. No additional information is provided.
The last, or 195th, line of the ASCII text file is:
He-4-97-03-04,Large Mammal,1,,,,,
This indicates that the faunal specimens pertain to excavation unit and level 97-03-04. In this level, there was 1 large mammal fragment. No additional information is provided.
Download the file FAUNASTRAT.TXT (7 KB) or the file FAUNASTRAT.XLS (33 KB).