Iroquoian Ceramic Data
Part of: William Engelbrecht Resources
Data on some 10,000 New York Iroquois ceramic vessels.
William Engelbrecht began collecting ceramic data in 1968 for his Ph.D. dissertation, A Stylistic Analysis of New York Iroquois Pottery, University of Michigan, 1971 (now uploaded to tDAR). Ceramic attributes and ceramic types were recorded from Iroquoian village sites across New York State dating between the 15th and mid-17th centuries. After his dissertation research, Engelbrecht continued to add to these data. At present, over 10,000 ceramic vessels from 70 Iroquoian sites are represented in this project.
All the sites are briefly described in a document, About the Sites. The document, The Coding Sheet, describes the codes used for ceramic attribute categories and their values. For analysis, many of these values were grouped into larger categories. For example, vessel collar height was measured to the nearest millimeter, but for analysis only five height classes were used (1-11 mm, 12-21 mm, 22-31 mm, 32-41 mm, 42-99 mm). These regrouped attributes are listed in the document, The Coding Sheet along with the original attributes. A third document, The Recording Form document, reproduces the actual form used to record data. One recording form sheet was used for each vessel or portion of a vessel. Some 10,000 of these are now in the archives of Butler Library at Buffalo State College. The contents of a recording form are represented in tDAR as a row of data in a file. All three documents, About the Sites, The Recording Form, and The Coding Sheet, have been uploaded to this project.
In this project, each of the 70 sites is associated with two files: 1) the original attributes recorded and 2) the regrouped attributes. These were originally SPSS files, the former with the extension “.odata” and the latter with the extension “.rpt”. Conversion of these files to a format compatible with tDAR proved to be a major challenge. I hired Rob Peltier with this grant to assist with uploading these files but he encountered numerous difficulties. Initially, technical support staff at Buffalo State were not able to assist with this. We found the following on line: “How to convert SPSS files to Excel.” Initially, these were not helpful until we realized that we needed to have SPSS installed on the computer we were using. Paul Reynolds of Computer Services at Buffalo State gave us access to a computer with SPSS and further assisted us. Though we were able to convert the SPSS files to Excel files, we found that the alignment between the column headings and the values did not match up, making reading the files difficult and confusing. We found that the data display looked best if we turned the SPSS files into a pdf format and uploaded them to tDAR. Thus, the attribute files have been uploaded as document files, even though they are actually data files.
A second goal was to upload articles using these data. These articles were scanned and uploaded by William Engelbrecht.
Investigation Types
Collections Research
Material Types
Ceramic
Temporal Keywords
Late Woodland
Geographic Keywords
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United States of America (Country) •
New York (State / Territory) •
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North America (Continent)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-47 of 47)
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Adams Site Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Adams Site (Seneca area)
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Atwell Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Atwell site (Onondaga area)
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Bach Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Bach Site (Oneida)
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Barker Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Barker Site (Mohawk area)
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Barnes Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Barnes Site (Onondaga area)
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Belcher Site Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Belcher Site (Seneca area)
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Buffum Site Ceramic Data (1971)
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ceramic data from the Buffum Site (multi-component)
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Burr Site Ceramic Data (1990)
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ceramic data from the Burr Site (Jefferson County, NY)
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Buyer Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Buyer Site (Oneida area)
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Cameron Site Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Cameron Site (Oneida area)
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Carlos SIte Ceramic Data (1990)
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ceramic data from the Carlos Site (Jefferson County, NY)
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Cemetery Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Cemetery Site (Onondaga area)
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Chase Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Chase Site (Onondaga area)
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Chaumont Site Ceramic Data (1990)
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ceramic data from the Chaumont Site (Jefferson County, NY)
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Clifton Springs Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Clifton Springs Site (Cayuga area)
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Cornish Site Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Cornish Site (Seneca area)
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Cromwell Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Cromwell Site (Mohawk area)
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Diable Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Diable Site (Oneida area)
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Dutch Hollow Site Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Dutch Hollow Site (Seneca area)
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Ellis site Ceramic Data (1977)
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ceramic data from the Ellis Site (western New York area)
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Englebert Site Ceramic Data (1974)
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ceramic data from the Englebert Site (Southern Tier area)
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Factory Hollow Site Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Factory Hollow Site (Seneca area)
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Farrell Site Ceramic Data (1980)
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ceramic data from the Farrell Site (Seneca area)
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Footer Site Ceramic Data (1980)
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ceramic data from the Footer Site (Seneca area)
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Fort Drum Site Ceramic Data (1990)
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ceramic data from the Fort Drum Site (Jefferson County, NY)
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Genoa Fort Site Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Genoa Fort Site (Cayuga area)
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Goodyear Site Ceramic data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Goodyear Site (western New York area)
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Green Lake Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Green Lake Site (western New York area)
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Heath Site Ceramic Data (1990)
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ceramic data from the Heath Site
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Kienuka Site Ceramic Data (1978)
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ceramic data from the Kienuka Site (western New York area)
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Kleis Site Ceramic Data (1976)
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ceramic data from the Kleis Site (western New York area)
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Klinko Site Ceramic Data (1974)
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ceramic data from the Klinko Site (Cayuga area)
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Martin Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Martin Site (Mohawk area)
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Newton-Hopper Site Ceramic Data (1977)
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ceramic data from the Newton-Hopper Site (western New York area)
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Nichols Pond Site Ceramic Data (1) (1974)
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ceramic data from the Nichols Pond Site (Oneida area)
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Power House site Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Power House Site (Seneca area)
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Richmond Mills Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Richmond Mills Site (Seneca area)
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Ripley Site Ceramic Data (3) (1987)
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ceramic data from the Ripley Site (Erie area)
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Shelby Site Ceramic Data (1978)
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ceramic data from the Shelby Site (western New York area)
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Silverheels Site Ceramaic Data (1974)
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ceramic data from the Silverheels Site (western New York area)
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Simmons Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Simmons Site (western New York area)
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Smith Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Smith Site (Mohawk area)
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Temperance House Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Temperance House Site (Onondaga area)
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Thurston Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Thurston Site (Oneida area)
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Wagner's Hollow Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Wagner's Hollow Site (Mohawk area)
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Warren Site Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Warren Site (Seneca area)
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Wayland-Smith Site Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Wayland-Smith Site (Oneida area)