Soil Systems, Inc. General Artifact Coding Sheet
Creator(s): Soil Systems, Inc.
Year: unknown
Summary
These are the general artifact codes used by Soil Systems, Inc., on its Provenience Designation/Field Specimen Form. The PD/FS form data were used to inventory artifacts by provenience. More specific artifact codes were associated with laboratory analyses.
Cite this Record
Soil Systems, Inc. General Artifact Coding Sheet. Soil Systems, Inc.. ( tDAR id: 6295) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8VD6WNC
Category: Human Burial
Coding Rules
| Code | Term | Description | Mapped Ontology Node |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indeterminate stone material (manuports, etc.) | ||
| 2 | Fire-cracked rock or slag | ||
| 3 | Schist debris | ||
| 4 | Mineral | ||
| 10 | Indeterminate groundstone | ||
| 11 | Groundstone debitage | ||
| 12 | Shaped stone slab (not an architectural element) | ||
| 13 | Architectural element | ||
| 20 | Indeterminate handstone | ||
| 21 | Hammerstone | ||
| 22 | Polishing stone | ||
| 23 | Abrading stone | ||
| 24 | Pestle | ||
| 25 | Groundstone tabular tool | ||
| 27 | Axe | ||
| 28 | Maul | ||
| 29 | Indeterminate Axe/maul | ||
| 30 | Unassigned | ||
| 31 | Anvil | ||
| 32 | Lapstone | ||
| 33 | Palette | ||
| 34 | Mortar | ||
| 35 | Stone bowl | ||
| 41 | Stone pipe | ||
| 42 | Plummet | ||
| 43 | Stone “donut” ring | ||
| 44 | Stone disk | ||
| 45 | Pecked/polished sphere | ||
| 49 | Other pecked/battered stone | ||
| 50 | Indeterminate mano | ||
| 51 | One-handed mano | ||
| 52 | Two-handed mano | ||
| 53 | Ground slab (piki, pigment stone, etc.) | ||
| 55 | Indeterminate metate | ||
| 56 | Trough metate | ||
| 57 | Slab metate | ||
| 58 | Basin metate | ||
| 60 | Indeterminate ornament | ||
| 61 | Bead | ||
| 62 | Pendant | ||
| 63 | Geometric | ||
| 64 | Effigy | ||
| 65 | Tchamahia | ||
| 66 | Tessera | ||
| 69 | Other groundstone tool | ||
| 70 | Indeterminate chipped stone | ||
| 71 | Unworked nodule (e.g., Apache Tears) | ||
| 72 | Shatter/angular debris | ||
| 73 | Cortical flake | ||
| 74 | Noncortical flake | ||
| 75 | Indeterminate debitage | ||
| 76 | Core | ||
| 81 | Core tool | ||
| 82 | Cobble tool | ||
| 85 | Chipped stone tabular tool | ||
| 86 | Uniface | ||
| 87 | Biface | ||
| 88 | Unifacially retouched flake or shatter | ||
| 89 | Bifacially retouched flake or shatter | ||
| 90 | Unifacial wear on a flake or shatter | ||
| 91 | Bifacial wear on a flake or shatter | ||
| 92 | Retouched projection on a flake or shatter | ||
| 93 | Worn projection on a flake or shatter | ||
| 94 | Combination tool on a flake or shatter | ||
| 96 | Projectile point | ||
| 97 | Flaked axe | ||
| 98 | Chipped stone ornament | ||
| 99 | Other chipped stone tools | ||
| 100 | Sherds | ||
| 101 | Reconstructible vessel (RV) | ||
| 120 | Figurine or figurine fragment | ||
| 121 | Modeled spindle whorl | ||
| 122 | Sherd spindle whorl | ||
| 123 | Ceramic bead(s) | ||
| 124 | Ceramic pendant | ||
| 125 | Worked sherd | ||
| 126 | Unfired clay | ||
| 150 | Comal | ||
| 199 | Other ceramic item | ||
| 200 | Bone (no HU or FA ID) | ||
| 201 | Faunal bone | ||
| 203 | Bone awl / hairpin | ||
| 204 | Worked faunal bone | ||
| 205 | Human bone | ||
| 210 | Eggshell | ||
| 300 | Shell | ||
| 301 | Worked shell | ||
| 302 | Shell bead(s) | ||
| 303 | Shell bracelet | ||
| 304 | Shell pendant | ||
| 305 | Shell ring | ||
| 308 | Other shell ornament | ||
| 309 | Indeterminate shell ornament | ||
| 350 | Freshwater shell | ||
| 401 | Daub | ||
| 402 | Perishable material (modified organic material) | ||
| 403 | Miscellaneous (caliche, impressions in soil, etc.) | ||
| 404 | Insect | ||
| 405 | Human hair | ||
| 406 | Human coprolite | ||
| 500 | General historic material | ||
| 501 | Glass | ||
| 502 | Historic ceramic | ||
| 503 | Historic leather | ||
| 504 | Metal | ||
| 505 | Historic textile | ||
| 600 | Archaeomag | ||
| 601 | C-14 | ||
| 602 | Flotation | ||
| 603 | Macrobot | ||
| 604 | Pollen | ||
| 605 | Pollen wash | ||
| 606 | Soil | ||
| 607 | Phytolith | ||
| 608 | Dendro | ||
| Special Coding Rules: These entries are not in the coding-sheet, but represent edge-cases in Data Integration that may benefit from custom mappings | |||
File Information
| Name | Size | Creation Date | Date Uploaded | Access | |
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| ssiartifactcodes.xlsx | 11.93kb | May 29, 2011 2:27:54 PM | Public |