Cat-A

• Label: Cat-A
• Definition: Year of Excavation
• Type: Date/time
• Date format: YYYY
• Missing values: None specified

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Cat-B

• Label: Cat-B
• Definition: Collection Number Entered into University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology during that year
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Cat-C

• Label: Cat-C
• Definition: Specific Identifier within Catalog
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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North

• Label: North
• Definition: North Coordinate of Excavation Unit (SW corner)
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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East

• Label: East
• Definition: East Coordinate of Excavation Unit (SW corner)
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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BD

• Label: BD
• Definition: Below Datum
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Level

• Label: Level
• Definition: Excavation Level
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Feature

• Label: Feature
• Definition: If recovered from a specific feature
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Piece Plot Number

• Label: Piece Plot Number
• Definition: If precise provincie within excavation unit taken
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Object Name

• Label: Object Name
• Definition: Category of Item Recovered
• Type: Code list
• Codes:
  • Ceramic = fired clay product
  • Copper Tool = item made of native copper
  • Fauna = shell and animal bone remains
  • FCR = Fire Cracked Rock
  • Groundstone = rocks showing grinding use
  • Interesting Rock = rocks from cultural contexts, modified and unmodified
  • Lithic = items invovled in stone tool production
  • Macrobotanical = botanical remains
  • Other = items not fitting specific categories
  • Other Tool = tools other than lithic tools or Groundstone
  • Temper = rocks used in ceramic production
• Missing values: None specified

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Expanded Object Name

• Label: Expanded Object Name
• Definition: A more specific modifier of the Object Name variable.
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Description

• Label: Description
• Definition: Additional details meant to accompany the Object Name and Expanded Object Name.
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Quantity

• Label: Quantity
• Definition: Number of item(s) recovered
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Weight

• Label: Weight
• Definition: Weight of the object referenced.
• Type: Physical quantity
• Unit: gram
• Maximum: Not specified
• Minimum: Not specified
• Precision: 0.01
• Missing values: None specified

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Lot #

• Label: Lot #
• Definition: The number assigned in the field by unit, by level, by day of excavation (or by shovel test).
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified