Iroquoian Ceramic Data

Summary

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.

Cite this Record

Iroquoian Ceramic Data. ( tDAR id: 6028) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8891772

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
Woodland

Material
Ceramic

Investigation Types
Collections Research

General
Ceramics

Geographic Keywords
New York State

Temporal Keywords
Late Woodland

Spatial Coverage

min long: -79.118; min lat: 42.135 ; max long: -77.124; max lat: 43.297 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): William Engelbrecht

Resources Inside this Project (Viewing 101-200 of 252)

Documents

  1. Kleis Sherd Images (1976)
  2. The Kleis Site Ceramics: An Interpretive Approach (1984)
  3. Klinko (1974)
  4. Klinko Regrouped Ceramic Attributes (1974)
  5. Martin (1969)
  6. Martin Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
  7. Matteson (1990)
  8. Matteson Regrouped Ceramic Data (1990)
  9. Matteson Sherd Images (2012)
  10. Matteson Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
  11. Morse (1990)
  12. Morse Regrouped Ceramic Data (1990)
  13. Morse Sherd Images (2012)
  14. Morse Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
  15. Mud Creek (1990)
  16. Mud Creek Regrouped Ceramic Data (1990)
  17. Mud Creek Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
  18. New York Iroquois Political Development (1985)
  19. Newton Hopper (1977)
  20. Newton-Hopper Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1977)
  21. Nichols Pond (1974)
  22. Nichols Pond Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1974)
  23. Nohle (1990)
  24. Nohle Regrouped Ceramic Attributes (1990)
  25. Nohle Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
  26. Northern New York Revisited (2004)
  27. Potacki (1990)
  28. Potacki Regrouped Ceramic Data (1990)
  29. Potacki Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
  30. Powerhouse (1970)
  31. Powerhouse Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1970)
  32. Putnam (1989)
  33. Putnam Regrouped Ceramic Data (1989)
  34. Putnam Sherd Images (2012)
  35. Putnam Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
  36. Recording Form Sheet for the Iroquoian Ceramic Data Project (1968)
  37. The Reflection of Patterned Behavior in Iroquois Pottery (1972)
  38. Richmond Mills (1969)
  39. Richmond Mills Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
  40. Ripley (1987)
  41. Ripley Ceramics (1996)
  42. Ripley Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1987)
  43. Shelby (1978)
  44. Shelby Information (2001)
  45. Shelby Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1978)
  46. Silverheels (1974)
  47. Silverheels Manuscript (1987)
  48. Silverheels SIte Regrouped Ceramic Data (1974)
  49. Silverheels Whole Vessels (1983)
  50. Simmons (1969)
  51. Simmons Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
  52. Smith (1969)
  53. Smith Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
  54. Smokes Creek (R. Haas) (1993)
  55. Smokes Creek (R. Haas) Sherd Images (1993)
  56. St. Lawrence Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
  57. Stewart (1990)
  58. A Stylistic Analysis of New York Iroquois Pottery (1971)
  59. Swarthout (1990)
  60. Swarthout (View) (1974)
  61. Swarthout Regrouped Attribute Data (1990)
  62. Swarthout Sherd Images (2012)
  63. Swarthout Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
  64. Talcott Falls (1990)
  65. Talcott Falls Regrouped Ceramic Attributes (1990)
  66. Talcott Falls Sherd Images (2012)
  67. Talcott Falls Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
  68. Temperance House (1969)
  69. Temperance House Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
  70. Thurston (1969)
  71. Thurston Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
  72. Tift (1990)
  73. Treadway (1990)
  74. Wagner's Hollow (1969)
  75. Wagners Hollow Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
  76. Warren (1970)
  77. Warren Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1970)
  78. Wayland Smith (1969)
  79. Wayland-Smith Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
  80. Whitford (1990)
  81. Whitford Regrouped Ceramic Data (1990)
  82. Whitford Sherd Images (2012)
  83. Whitford Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)

Images

  1. Goodyear Map (1969)
  2. Smith Map (1969)

Datasets

  1. Adams Site Ceramic Data (1970)
  2. Atwell Site Ceramic Data (1969)
  3. Bach Site Ceramic Data (1969)
  4. Barker Site Ceramic Data (1969)
  5. Barnes Site Ceramic Data (1969)
  6. Belcher Site Ceramic Data (1970)
  7. Buffum Site Ceramic Data (1971)
  8. Burr Site Ceramic Data (1990)
  9. Buyer Site Ceramic Data (1969)
  10. Cameron Site Ceramic Data (1970)
  11. Carlos SIte Ceramic Data (1990)
  12. Cemetery Site Ceramic Data (1969)
  13. Chase Site Ceramic Data (1969)
  14. Chaumont Site Ceramic Data (1990)
  15. Clifton Springs Ceramic Data (1970)