Latin American Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh
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Regional Archaeology in the Muisca Territory: Fúquene Project Dataset
Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda 
 
  Ceramics in the Survey Collection --  CERAM.TXT

A total of 1,759 survey collection lots of the Fúquene project contained ceramics (see Chapter 2). A data file named CERAM.TXT contains the number of sherds of each ceramic type in each survey collection lot. These data are in the form of an ASCII text file that can be read directly or easily imported to an application program such as a database manager or statistics package. The file contains 1,759 lines, one for each collection lot. On each line are 14 numbers, separated by commas. The 14 numbers are, in the following order:
 

1
 The collection lot number
2
 The number of sherds of Crushed rock ware (see pp. 165-167)
3
 The number of sherds of Sand tempered ware (see pp. 167-169)
4
 The number of sherds of Guatavita sherd tempered ware (see pp. 169-173)
5
 The number of sherds of Grey tempered ware (see pp. 173-175)
6
 The number of sherds of Orange burnished ware (see pp. 175-177)
7
 The number of sherds of Valle de Tenza grey (see pp. 177-179)
8
 The number of sherds of Dragged-tempered ware (see pp. 179-181)
9
 The number of sherds of Glazed ware (see pp. 181-183)
10
 The number of sherds of La Chamba ware (see pp. 183-185)
11
 The number of sherds of China (see p. 185)
12
 The number of sherds of Magdalena Valley pottery (see p. 179)
13
 The number of sherds of Zipaquirá sherd tempered (see p. 81)
14
 The number of unclassified sherds
 

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

1,0,0,0,0,0,0,7,2,0,1,0,0,0

It contains the ceramics counts for collection lot 1, which are 7 sherds of Dragged-tempered ware, 2 sherds of Glazed ware, and 1 sherd of China.

The last (or 1759th) line is:

2003,0,0,0,0,0,0,12,0,0,0,0,0,0

The ceramics in collection lot 2003 consisted of 12 sherds of Dragged-tempered ware.

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