User Guide

This page describes the fields and relationships for each table in the Chaco Research Archive database.  The purpose of this guide is to provide researchers a reference to explain how tables and fields were defined and how data were entered into those tables and fields.

Although the aim is to ensure consistency whenever possible, there are unavoidable variations due to the nature of the recorded data and the process of data entry.  This database captures legacy data from excavations conducted between 1896 and 1950.  Each project was originally recorded with different standards and individual excavator notes vary greatly in detail and scope from site to site and from room to room.  To compensate for this variability the Chaco Research Archive database was designed to capture both how the excavator conducted his or her excavations as well as to capture additional details found in the notes.

Please Be Advised: All field measurements were converted to a metric scale, and rounded to the nearest hundredth.

Tables and Fields

♦ ADDITIONAL LANDS SITE SURVEY FORM:

The Additional Lands Archaeological Survey (1983-1984) was an intensive study designed to inventory the cultural resources contained within parcels of land that were added to the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. These parcels included areas on Chacra Mesa, areas surrounding Kin Bineola and Kin Klizhin, and a section called the “South Addition.” Approximately 956 archaeological sites were documented as part of this project.

In partnership with the Chaco Culture National Historical Park Archive and Museum Collection, the Chaco Research Archive has digitized significant portions of data created by the Additional Lands Archaeological Survey (hereafter referred to as “ALS”).  Sections of the survey forms (containing fields relevant to archaeological research) were keyboarded verbatim and those data are available in this table. Users also have the ability to view the original survey forms which are available in the CRA Documentary Accessions table. Records for field specimens recovered during survey were also keyboarded and are available through the CRA Artifact table.  There are three additional data tables available for the Additional Lands Survey.  They include ceramic, lithic, and historic trash data. Descriptions for those tables are included here in the user guide and links to the data tables and search forms are available via the Query the Data page and the Archaeological Surveys pages.  

In addition to making the original data accessible and searchable, the CRA team has also added and normalized some data fields in order to facilitate research queries.  All such fields are clearly designated below with a “CRA” prefix in the field title.

Related Tables:
Sites Table 1:many Relationship # 73
Fields:
  • Site Number: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • New Mexico State Official Number (LA#): Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Recorder: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Form date: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Area Name: Drop-down List=
    • Chacra Mesa
    • Kin Bineola
    • Kin Klizhin
    • South Addition
  • Isolated Find number I.O.#: Number – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Culture Tradition 1:: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Culture/Tradition 1: Normalized field. Drop-down List= (check all that apply) 
    • Anasazi
    • Archaic
    • Historic
    • Navajo
    • Other
    • Paleo-Indian
    • Unknown
    • Unspecified
  • Field and Lab Dates 1: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Site Type 1: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Site Type 1: Normalized field. Drop-down List=
    • Animal Husbandry
    • Baking Pits
    • Burial
    • Cairn
    • Camp
    • Chacoan Structure
    • Cist
    • Euro-American Refuse
    • Field House
    • Great Kiva
    • Habitation
    • Hearth
    • Hogan
    • Inscription
    • Kiva
    • Ledge Room
    • Lithic Scatter
    • Other
    • Oven
    • Quarry
    • Ranch
    • Road
    • Rock Art
    • Sherd Scatter
    • Sherd and Lithic Scatter
    • Shrine
    • Stair
    • Storage
    • Sweathouse
    • Trail
    • Unknown
    • Unspecified/li>
    • Water Control
  • Culture Tradition 2: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Culture/Tradition 2: Normalized field. Drop-down List= (check all that apply) 
    • Anasazi
    • Archaic
    • Historic
    • Navajo
    • Paleo-Indian
    • Other
    • Unknown
    • Unspecified
  • Field and Lab Dates 2: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Site Type 2: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Site Type 2: Normalized field. Drop-down List=
    • Animal Husbandry
    • Baking Pits
    • Burial
    • Cairn
    • Camp
    • Chacoan Structure
    • Cist
    • Euro-American Refuse
    • Field House
    • Great Kiva
    • Habitation
    • Hearth
    • Hogan
    • Inscription
    • Kiva
    • Ledge Room
    • Lithic Scatter
    • Other
    • Oven
    • Quarry
    • Ranch
    • Road
    • Rock Art
    • Sherd Scatter
    • Sherd and Lithic Scatter
    • Shrine
    • Stair
    • Storage
    • Sweathouse
    • Trail
    • Unknown
    • Unspecified/li>
    • Water Control
  • Culture Tradition 3: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Culture/Tradition 3: Normalized field. Drop-down List= (check all that apply) 
    • Anasazi
    • Archaic
    • Historic
    • Navajo
    • Paleo-Indian
    • Other
    • Unknown
    • Unspecified
  • Field and Lab Dates 3: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Site Type 3: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Site Type 3: Normalized field. Drop-down List=
    • Animal Husbandry
    • Baking Pits
    • Burial
    • Cairn
    • Camp
    • Chacoan Structure
    • Cist
    • Euro-American Refuse
    • Field House
    • Great Kiva
    • Habitation
    • Hearth
    • Hogan
    • Inscription
    • Kiva
    • Ledge Room
    • Lithic Scatter
    • Other
    • Oven
    • Quarry
    • Ranch
    • Road
    • Rock Art
    • Sherd Scatter
    • Sherd and Lithic Scatter
    • Shrine
    • Stair
    • Storage
    • Sweathouse
    • Trail
    • Unknown
    • Unspecified/li>
    • Water Control
  • Landowner: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • County: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • State: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Topo Map: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Aerial photo reference: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Description of site location: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Elevation: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Site Elevation: Number. Normalized field.
  • Water drainage rank primary to quaternary: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Nearest available water: Drop-down List=
    • Bedrock tank
    • Ephemeral wash
    • Other
    • River
    • Spring/seep
    • Stream
    • Unspecified
  • Nearest available water note: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Indicate distance, name, use potential (domestic/agricultural) and permanency of source (perennial/ephemeral): Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Other sources within 2km: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Potential Agricultural Areas (indicate distance, direction, size, irrigation source, and topography of nearest agricultural areas) Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Soil association: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Primary topography on site: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Secondary topography on site: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Secondary topography on site note: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Vegetation: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • List of common on site plants: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Surface substrate geology: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Surficial rock: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Other notes/observations on environment: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Site condition: Drop-down List=
    • deflated
    • endangered
    • eroding
    • stable
    • unspecified
    • unstable
  • Culture/Tradition #1: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Culture/Tradition #1 features: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Culture/Tradition #2: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Culture/Tradition #2 features: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Culture/Tradition #3: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Culture/Tradition #3 features: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Overall site size: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA long dimension: Number. Normalized field using data extracted from “Overall site size” field.
  • CRA short dimension: Number. Normalized field using data extracted from “Overall site size” field..
  • CRA area rectangle: Programmatic formula field – using CRA long and short dimensions to calculate site area.
  • CRA diameter: Number. Normalized field using data extracted from “Overall site size” field.
  • CRA area rectangle: Programmatic formula field – using CRA diameter to calculate site area.
  • Pueblo roomblock size: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Pueblo number of roomblocks: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Number of rooms visible: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Sebastian/Altschul max number of rooms visible: Number. Data extracted from Sebastian and Altschul settlement data. See CRA accession #006533.
  • Number of rooms estimated: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Sebastian/Altschul max number of rooms estimated: Number. Data extracted from Sebastian and Altschul settlement data. See CRA accession #006533.
  • Mound height: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Sebastian/Altschul mound height: Number. Data extracted from Sebastian and Altschul settlement data. See CRA accession #006533.
  • Mound height: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Size of rooms: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Masonry Type(s): Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Masonry Types: Normalized field. Drop-down List=
    • jacal
    • upright slabs
    • simple
    • compund
    • core and veneer
    • not applicable
    • other
    • Unspecified/Unknown
  • Number of Kivas: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Number of Kivas (minimum) Number. Normalized field using data extracted from all available ALS kiva estimates.
  • CRA Number of Kivas (maximum) Number. Normalized field using data extracted from all available ALS kiva estimates.
  • Number of kivas visible: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Number of kivas estimated: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Number of pithouses: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Number of pithouses (minimum): Number. Normalized field using data extracted from all available ALS pithouse estimates.
  • CRA Number of pithouses (maximum): Number. Normalized field using data extracted from all available ALS pithouse estimates.
  • Number of pithouses visible: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Number of pithouses estimated: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Great kiva: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Number of Great Kivas (minimum): Number. Normalized field using data extracted from all available ALS great kiva estimates.
  • CRA Number of Great Kivas (maximum): Number. Normalized field using data extracted from all available ALS great kiva estimates.
  • CRA Great Kiva diameter: Number. Normalized field using data extracted from all available ALS kiva estimates.
  • Great kiva visible/estimated: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Trashmounds (size, depth, dimensions): Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Other surface structures: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Number of structures/rooms: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Number of Hogans: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Number of Hogans (minimum) Number. Normalized field using data extracted from all available ALS hogan estimates.
  • CRA Number of Hogans (maximum) Number. Normalized field using data extracted from all available ALS hogan estimates.
  • Shape: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Construction type: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Size: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Other: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Other Site Features: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • CRA Other Site Features Types: Normalized field. Drop-down List=
    • baking pit
    • burial
    • simple
    • cairn
    • can scatter
    • canal/ditch
    • corral
    • dam
    • fire-cracked rock
    • hearth
    • other
    • oven
    • quarry
    • road
    • rock art
    • sherd scatter
    • sherd/lithic scatter
    • shrine
    • storage pit/cist
    • sweathouse
    • trail
    • unspecified
  • Additional description of site features: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Will site yield info important to prehistory and/or history: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Areas of significance: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Collections permanent catalog number: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Collections – FS number: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Collections – feature room sq.: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Collections – description, comments: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Continuation sheet: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original ALS form.
  • Sebastian-Altschul Feature/Component Data: Data extracted from Sebastian and Altschul settlement data. See CRA accession #006533.
  • CRA notes: Text

♦ ADDITIONAL LANDS SURVEY CERAMIC TALLIES:

This table contains data on the ceramic analysis done on collections made during the Additional Lands Survey. The analyses were conducted by Barbara Mills in 1984(?)-1986. Her original report summary is available via the CRA (see Accession 001816), and will also be available in the forthcoming (late 2013) Chaco Additions online manuscript.

Most of the information contained in this table was originally entered in code form. Using the code key from the original Additional Lands Survey data, we have translated that code back to regular text. Users should note that this ceramic data is in a very different format from the other ceramic tallies currently contained in other CRA tables. Instead of having one entry for each site with tallies for respective ceramic types/wares, this dataset has multiple data records for each site. Each record (or each row in the original spreadsheet) was a unique combination of traits recorded (different ceramic type, form, temper, etc.).

In 2001, the Chaco Culture National HIstorical Park Museum Collection contracted with the Office of Contract Archaeology to migrate all computerized ALS data from their original punch-card data sheets into more sustainable, electronic file formats. These electronic files were made available to the CRA. To view the original data print outs for the CERAMIC2 database, see Accession 006534. We used the CERAMIC2.xls file created by the Office of Contract Archaeology to populate this table. Robert Powers was of immense help in making sure this process was done correctly.

Related Tables:
Sites Table 1:many Relationship # XX
Additional Lands Site Survey Forms 1:many Relationship # XX
Fields:
  • ALS Ceramic Analysis Observation Number: Number
  • ALS ID2 Number: Number. Concatenated code numbers. This number string is composed of data fields: ALS id2, county, site number, component designation, component number, feature designation, and feature number.
  • Area: Survey area name. Drop-down List=
    • Chacra Mesa
    • Kin Bineola
    • Kin Klizhin
    • South Addition
  • County:Drop-down List=
    • San Juan
    • McKinley
    • Unspecified
  • ALS site number: Number.
  • Deposit Type: Drop-down List=
    • Refuse scatter
    • Trash mound or ash heap
    • Unspecified
  • Deposit Number: Number.
  • Feature Designation: Drop-down List=
    • Ash Heap
    • Baking Pit
    • Burial
    • Cairn
    • Camp
    • Canal/Ditch
    • Chacoan Structure
    • Check Dam
    • Cist
    • Corral
    • Fieldhouse/Water Control
    • Fieldhouse
    • General Site Scatter
    • Great Kiva
    • Hearth
    • Hogan
    • Kiva
    • Ledge Room(s)
    • Lithic Concentration
    • Lithic Scatter
    • Other
    • Pithouse
    • Pot Drop
    • Ramada/Lean To
    • Road
    • Rock Art
    • Rock Shelter
    • Roomblock
    • Sherd Scatter
    • Sherd/Lithic Scatter
    • Shrine
    • Slab/FCR Scatter
    • Stairs
    • Stone Circle
    • Storage Room
    • Sweatlodge
    • Trail
    • Unknown Feature
    • Unknown Structure
    • Unspecified
    • Water Control
  • Feature number: Number.
  • Site type: Drop-down List=
    • “Camp-like” site
    • Animal husbandry
    • Baking pit
    • Camp
    • Chacoan structure
    • Cist/storage
    • Fieldhouse
    • Fieldhouse/Water Control
    • Great Kiva (isolate)
    • Great Kiva/Habitation
    • Habitation
    • Hearth
    • Hogan
    • Ledge room(s)
    • Lithic scatter
    • Other
    • Road segment/trail
    • Rock art
    • Sherd scatter
    • Sherd/Lithic scatter
    • Shrine
    • Stairs
    • Sweatlodge
    • Unknown Anasazi
    • Unknown Navajo
    • Unspecified
    • Water control
  • Sample size: Number.
  • Total size: Number.
  • Culture: Drop-down List=
    • Anasazi
    • Anasazi/Archaic
    • Anasazi/Navajo
    • Archaic
    • Historic
    • Navajo
    • Unknown
    • Unspecified
  • Association: Drop-down List=
    • Ceramic
    • Lithic
    • Unspecified
  • Ceramic type: Drop-down List=
    • Black Mesa B/W
    • BMII-PI C/W
    • BMIII-PI C/W
    • BMIII-PI M/W
    • Chaco B/W
    • Chaco-Mc Elmo B/W
    • Chuska C/W
    • Chuska M/W
    • Chuska Red Mesa
    • Cortez B/W
    • Crumbled Hse B/W
    • Dinetah Gray
    • Escavada B/W
    • Gallup B/W
    • Gobernador Poly
    • Hist Pueblo Poly
    • Hopi Polys
    • Kana’a B/W
    • Kayenta Polys
    • Lino B/G
    • Lino Gr/Fug Red
    • M Verde B/W
    • Mancos B/W
    • Mancos/ Cort B/W
    • McElmo B/W
    • Narrow Neckband
    • Navajo Gray
    • Navajo Painted
    • Neck Corrug
    • Other Plain
    • PII Rim
    • PII-III M/W
    • PII-III Rim
    • PIII Rim
    • Pinyon Gray
    • Plain Gray
    • Puerco B/R
    • Puerco B/W
    • Red Mesa B/W
    • San Juan Red
    • Sanostee R/O
    • Smudged
    • Socorro B/W
    • Sosi B/W
    • Sosi/BM B/W
    • St Johns B/R
    • St Johns Poly
    • Toadlena M/W
    • Tsegi Orange
    • Tunicha M/W
    • Tusayan C/W
    • Unid Chuska WW
    • Unid CWW
    • Unid MV C/W
    • Unid Nav Painted
    • Unid Nav Utility
    • Unid WMR Poly
    • Unid WMRB/R
    • Uniden Corrug
    • Uniden Poly
    • Uniden Red
    • Uniden Ware
    • Unspecified
    • Wide Neckband
    • Wingate B/R
    • Wingate Poly
  • Vessel form: Drop-down List=
    • Bowls
    • Jars
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Temper: Drop-down List=
    • Non-trachyte temper
    • Trachyte temper
    • Unspecified
  • Frequency: Number.
  • Begin date: Number.
  • End date: Number.
  • Date cluster: Number. Drop-down List=
    • 550-700
    • 700-800
    • 850-925
    • 1100-1125
    • 1200-1300
    • Unspecified
  • Date group: Number. Drop-down List=
    • 550-700
    • 700-800
    • 850-925
    • 1100-1125
    • 1200-1300
    • Unspecified

♦ ADDITIONAL LANDS SURVEY HISTORIC TRASH

This table contains the data from the analysis of historic trash collected on the Additional Lands Survey. The analyses were conducted by Miranda Warburton. Her original report on these data will be available in the forthcoming (late 2013) Chaco Additions online manuscript which will be made available via the CRA website.

Most of the information contained in this table was originally entered in code form. Using the code keys from the original Additional Lands Survey data, we have translated that code back to regular text.

In 2001, the Chaco Culture National Historical Park Museum Collection contracted with the Office of Contract Archaeology to migrate all computerized ALS data from magnetic tapes into more sustainable, electronic file formats. These electronic files were made available to the CRA. We used the TRASH.xls file created by the Office of Contract Archaeology to populate this table. Robert Powers was of immense help in making sure this process was done correctly. To view the original data print outs for the LITHIC2 database, see Accession 006536.

Related Tables:
Sites Table 1:many Relationship # XX
Additional Lands Site Survey Forms 1:many Relationship # XX
Fields:
  • ALS Lithic Analysis Observation Number: Number
  • ALS ID Number: Number.
  • Area: Survey area name. Drop-down List=
    • Chacra Mesa
    • Kin Bineola
    • Kin Klizhin
    • South Addition
  • County:Drop-down List=
    • San Juan
    • McKinley
    • Unspecified
  • ALS site number: Number.
  • Deposit Type: Drop-down List=
    • Refuse scatter
    • Trash mound or ash heap
    • Structure/feature
    • Unspecified
  • Deposit Number: Number.
  • Deposit area: Number.
  • Feature designation: Drop-down List=
    • Baking pit
    • Corral
    • Crevice refuse
    • Fieldhouse
    • Fieldhouse/Water control
    • General site scatter
    • Great kiva
    • Hearth
    • Hogan
    • Kiva
    • Lithic concentration
    • Lithic scatter
    • Navajo wall
    • Other
    • Oven
    • Pithouse
    • Ramada/Lean to
    • Road
    • Rock art
    • Roomblock
    • Sherd scatter
    • Slab/FCR scatter
    • Storage room
    • Sweatlodge
    • Trail
    • Unknown structure
    • Unspecified
    • Wood cutting
  • Feature number: Number.
  • Feature area: Number.
  • Site type: Drop-down List=
    • Animal husbandry
    • Baking pit
    • Camp
    • Camp-like site
    • Chacoan structure
    • Cist/storage
    • Fieldhouse
    • Great kiva/habitation
    • Habitation
    • Hearth
    • Hogan
    • Hogan Anasazi
    • Hogan lodge rooms
    • Ledge room(s)
    • Lithic scatter
    • Other
    • Road segment/trail
    • Rock art
    • Sherd/lithic scatter
    • Sherd scatter
    • Shrine
    • Shrine other
    • Sweatlodge
    • Sweatlodge Anasazi
    • Unknown Anasazi
    • Water control
  • Culture: Drop-down List=
    • Anasazi
    • Anasazi Archaic
    • Anasazi Historic Other
    • Anasazi Navajo
    • Anasazi Navajo Other
    • Anasazi Other
    • Archaic
    • Historic
    • Historic Anasazi
    • Historic Navajo Unk.
    • Historic Navajo/Anasazi
    • Navajo
    • Navajo Archaic
    • Navajo Historic
    • Navajo Unknown
    • Unknown
  • Item: Drop-down List=
    • 22 cartridge
    • 44 cartridge
    • Air mattress
    • Aluminum
    • Aluminum can
    • Aluminum foil
    • Aluminum meat can
    • Amber glass
    • Antifreeze can
    • Antler
    • Anvil/Abrader
    • Aqua bottle
    • Ax head
    • Baby bottle nipple?
    • Baby food jar
    • Baking powder can
    • Barbed Wire
    • Barrel hoop
    • Battery
    • Bead
    • Beer bottle
    • Bleach bottle
    • Blue earthenware
    • Blue glass
    • Bobby pin
    • Bolt
    • Bone
    • Bone bead
    • Bone tool
    • Box
    • Brake fluid can
    • Bridle
    • Brown bottle
    • Brush
    • Bucket
    • Buckle
    • Burned bone
    • Button
    • Cable
    • Canning jar
    • Car headlight
    • Cartridge 30, 38, etc.
    • Ceramic figurine
    • Chain link
    • Chewing tob tin
    • Child’s chair
    • CI glass insulator
    • Clear bottle
    • Clothes hanger
    • Coal scuttle?
    • Coffee can
    • Coffee can key
    • Coffee can/sq
    • Coffee pot
    • Comb
    • Cooking ware
    • Corn cob
    • Cow bell
    • Crown cap
    • Deer bone
    • Doll
    • Door
    • Egg carton
    • Eggshell
    • Enamel ware
    • Evaporated milk can
    • Eyeglass lens
    • Fence post
    • Fence post/mtl
    • File/rasp
    • Flagging tape
    • Flash light
    • Fork
    • Fossil bone
    • Fossil shell
    • Glass bead
    • Glass bottle
    • Glass jar
    • Glass stopper
    • Glove
    • Glycymeris bracelet
    • Green bottle
    • Hack saw blade
    • Handmade hanger
    • Harmonica
    • Harness
    • Harness/Rivet
    • Hinge
    • Horn car?
    • Horse shoe
    • Human bone
    • Kerosene gas can
    • Kerosene lantern
    • Knife blade
    • Lard bucket
    • Lavendar glass
    • Leather
    • License plate
    • Lighter fluid can
    • Lintel
    • Machinery
    • Mammal bone
    • Marble
    • Medicine bottle
    • Menthola jar/wht
    • Metal
    • Metal grommet
    • Metal ring
    • Metal spout
    • Motor oil can
    • Nail
    • Nut
    • Olivella shell bd
    • Ornament
    • Padlock
    • Paint can opener
    • Paper bag
    • Patch tubekit?
    • Penny
    • Petrified wood
    • Pipe
    • Plastic
    • Plastic bd/btton
    • Pocket knife
    • Pop bottle
    • Pop top can
    • Porcelain
    • Porcelain door nob
    • Porcelain figurine
    • Potato chip bag
    • Presses glass
    • Proj pnt metal
    • Purglass insulat
    • Purple bottle
    • Rebar
    • Ring clamp
    • Rivet
    • Rock fork
    • Rodent bone
    • Rose glass
    • Rubber
    • Rubber hose
    • Rubber tube
    • Rubber washer
    • Saddle/horn
    • Sanitary can
    • Sanitary can/liq
    • Sardine fish can
    • Screen
    • Screw
    • Screw-on cap/lid
    • Screwtop can
    • Shark tooth
    • Sheep bone
    • Sheep rattle
    • Shell
    • Shell button
    • Shepherds stove
    • Shoe
    • Shoe horn
    • Shotgun shell
    • Shotgun shell 12g
    • Shovel
    • Spool for wire
    • Spoon
    • Staple
    • Steel bev. can
    • Steel drum
    • Steel meat can
    • Steel soda can
    • Stoneware
    • Stool
    • Stove
    • Stove pipe
    • Styrofoam
    • Sweat scraper
    • Table
    • Tea tin
    • Thermos
    • Tire
    • Tobacco tin
    • Tooth powder can
    • Toothpaste tube
    • Toy
    • Toy man
    • Toy wagon
    • Trash can
    • Trough
    • Trunk/lock
    • Unspecified
    • Wagon part
    • Wall hanger
    • Washer
    • Watch
    • Wetstone
    • White earthenware
    • White glass
    • Window glass
    • Windshield wiper
    • Wire
    • Wire handle
    • Wood
    • Worked bone
    • Worked shell
    • Yellow glass
  • Material type: Drop-down List=
    • 99 (unknown code)
    • Bone
    • Can
    • Cast Metal
    • Ceramic
    • Drawn Metal
    • Eggshell
    • Forged Metal
    • Fossil
    • Glass
    • Misc
    • Rubber
    • Sheet Metal
    • Shell
    • Unspecified
    • Wood
  • Part: Drop-down List=
    • 0 (Unknown code)
    • 7 (Unknown code)
    • Base
    • Fragment
    • Lid/Cap/Tab/Key
    • Neck
    • Whole
  • Evidence of reuse: Drop-down List=
    • No
    • Unspecified
    • Yes
  • Mark: Drop-down List=
    • Locally made
    • No
    • Unspecified
    • Yes
  • Begin date: Number.
  • End date: Number.
  • ALS observation number 1: Number.

♦ ADDITIONAL LANDS SURVEY LITHIC TALLIES:

This table contains the data from the analysis of lithic material collected on the Additional Lands Survey. The analyses were conducted by Catherine Cameron in the mid-1980s. Her original report on these data will be available in the forthcoming (late 2013) Chaco Additions online manuscript which will be made available via the CRA website.

Most of the information contained in this table was originally entered in code form. Using the code keys from the original Additional Lands Survey data, we have translated that code back to regular text.

In 2001, the Chaco Culture National HIstorical Park Museum Collection contracted with the Office of Contract Archaeology to migrate all computerized ALS data from magnetic tapes into more sustainable, electronic file formats. These electronic files were made available to the CRA. We used the LITHIC2.xls file created by the Office of Contract Archaeology to populate this table. Robert Powers was of immense help in making sure this process was done correctly. To view the original data print outs for the LITHIC2 database, see Accession 006535.

Related Tables:
Sites Table 1:many Relationship # XX
Additional Lands Site Survey Forms 1:many Relationship # XX
Fields:
  • ALS Lithic Analysis Observation Number: Number
  • ALS ID2 Number: Number. Concatenated code numbers.
  • Area: Survey area name. Drop-down List=
    • Chacra Mesa
    • Kin Bineola
    • Kin Klizhin
    • South Addition
  • County:Drop-down List=
    • San Juan
    • McKinley
    • Unspecified
  • ALS site number: Number.
  • Deposit Type: Drop-down List=
    • Refuse scatter
    • Trash mound or ash heap
    • Unspecified
  • Deposit Number: Number.
  • Feature Designation: Drop-down List=
    • Ash Heap
    • Baking Pit
    • Cairn
    • Camp
    • Chacoan Structure
    • Check Dam
    • Cist
    • Corral
    • Fieldhouse
    • Fieldhouse/Water Control
    • General Site Scatter
    • Great Kiva
    • Hearth
    • Hogan
    • Kiva
    • Ledge Room(s)
    • Lithic Concentration
    • Lithic Scatter
    • Other
    • Pithouse
    • Pot Drop
    • Ramada/Lean To
    • Rock Art
    • Rock Shelter
    • Roomblock
    • Sherd Scatter
    • Sherd/Lithic Scatter
    • Shrine
    • Slab/FCR Scatter
    • Stairs
    • Stone Circle
    • Sweatlodge
    • Trail
    • Unknown Feature
    • Unknown Structure
    • Unspecified
    • Water Control
  • Feature number: Number.
  • Site type: Drop-down List=
    • “Camp-like” site
    • Animal husbandry
    • Baking pit
    • Camp
    • Chacoan structure
    • Cist/storage
    • Fieldhouse
    • Fieldhouse/Water Control
    • Great Kiva (isolate)
    • Great Kiva/Habitation
    • Habitation
    • Hearth
    • Hogan
    • Ledge room(s)
    • Lithic scatter
    • Other
    • Road segment/trail
    • Rock art
    • Sherd scatter
    • Sherd/Lithic scatter
    • Shrine
    • Stairs
    • Sweatlodge
    • Unknown Anasazi
    • Unknown Navajo
    • Unspecified
    • Water control
  • Sample size: Number.
  • Total size: Number.
  • Culture: Drop-down List=
    • Anasazi
    • Anasazi/Archaic
    • Anasazi/Navajo
    • Archaic
    • Historic
    • Navajo
    • Unknown
    • Unspecified
  • Association: Drop-down List=
    • Ceramic
    • Lithic
    • Unspecified
  • Material type: Drop-down List=
    • Azurite
    • Baked shale
    • Black chert
    • Brushy Basin chert
    • Calcite
    • Chalcedony, clear colorless w/yellow mossy inclusions
    • Chalcedony, clear w/yellow and red inclusions
    • Chalcedony, clear, miscellaneous; white only
    • Chalcedony, miscellaneous, clear, colored uniformly
    • Chert, general
    • Chert, red, gray, purplish; glossy luster; clayey
    • Chert, white w/ black mossy inclusion
    • Chinle chert
    • Dark chalcedonic wood
    • Dark cherty wood
    • Fine-grained basalt
    • Fossiliferous chert
    • General chalcedony
    • High Surface
    • High Surface chalcedony
    • High Surface chalcedony (includes 1054)
    • Laguna chert
    • Light cherty wood
    • Malachite
    • Morrision chert
    • Morrision chert (includes 1022)
    • Nacimiento quartzitic
    • Other
    • Palm wood
    • Pedernal chert
    • Quartz crystal
    • Quartz rock
    • Quartzite, undifferentiated
    • Quartzite, white, coarsely crystalline
    • Quartzitic sandstone, general
    • Quartzitic sandstone, white-buff, orange, to red
    • Red & Yellow chert
    • Red & Yellow chert (includes 1070)
    • Red ochre/hematite
    • San Juan hornblende/diorite
    • Selenite
    • Splintery wood
    • Splintery wood (includes 1109)
    • Travertine undifferentiated
    • Turquoise
    • Undifferentiated claystone/siltstone
    • Undifferentiated Cretaceous SS.
    • Undifferentiated obsidian
    • Unknown
    • Unspecified
    • Varigated chalcedonic wood
    • Vesicular basalt
    • Washington Pass chert
    • White chalcedonic wood
    • Yellow wood
    • Zuni wood
  • Lithic type: Drop-down List=
    • 107 (Unknown code)
    • 199 (Unknown code)
    • 779 (Unknown code)
    • 999 (Unknown code)
    • Abrader (all)
    • All minerals
    • Angular debris
    • Axe
    • Bead
    • Bifacial thinning flake
    • Bipolar core
    • Choppers
    • Core
    • Corner-notched point
    • Debitage (incl. flakes and angular debris)
    • Denticulates
    • Formal drill
    • Hammerstones
    • Informal drill
    • Mano, one-hand
    • Mano, two-hand
    • Mano, unknown type
    • Maul
    • Metate, basin
    • Metate, slab
    • Metate, trough
    • Metate, unknown type
    • Misc. ornaments
    • Misc. shaped stone
    • Modified corner notched point
    • Other
    • Pendant
    • Polishing stone
    • Pot covers
    • Primary flake
    • Projectile point, indeterminate
    • Raw material
    • Retouched flake
    • Scraper
    • Secondary flake/flake fragment
    • Side-notched point
    • Stemmed point
    • Tchamahias
    • Unclassified tool/biface
    • Unspecified
    • Utilized flake
  • Type group code: Number
  • Condition: Drop-down List=
    • 3 (unknown code)
    • Complete
    • Incomplete
    • Unspecified
  • Frequency: Number.
  • Lithic artifact type: Drop-down List=
    • 107 (Unknown code)
    • 199 (Unknown code)
    • 779 (Unknown code)
    • 999 (Unknown code)
    • Abrader (all)
    • All minerals
    • Axe
    • Bead
    • Bipolar core
    • Choppers
    • Core
    • Corner-notched point
    • Debitage (incl. flakes and angular debris)
    • Denticulates
    • Formal drill
    • Hammerstones
    • Informal drill
    • Mano, one-hand
    • Mano, two-hand
    • Mano, unknown type
    • Maul
    • Metate, basin
    • Metate, slab
    • Metate, trough
    • Metate, unknown type
    • Misc. ornaments
    • Misc. shaped stone
    • Modified corner notched point
    • Other
    • Pendent
    • Polishing stone
    • Pot covers
    • Projectile point, indeterminate
    • Raw material
    • Retouched flake
    • Scraper
    • Side-notched point
    • Stemmed point
    • Tchamahias
    • Unclassified tool/biface
    • Unspecified
    • Utilized flake
  • Begin date: Number.
  • End date: Number.
  • Date cluster: Number. Drop-down List=
    • 550-700
    • 700-800
    • 850-925
    • 1100-1125
    • 1200-1300
    • Unspecified
  • ALS observation number 1: Number.
  • ALS observation number 2: Number.

♦ ARBITRARY UNIT CHARACTERISTICS:

Captures information unique to arbitrary units such as trenches and test pits.

Related Tables:
CRA Accession Table many: many Relationship # 40
Provenience Level Table 1: many Relationship # 31
Excavation Unit Table many: 1 Relationship # 30
Arbitrary Unit Equivalencies 1: many Relationship # 36
General Feature Table 1: many Relationship # 34
Artifact Table 1: many Relationship # 38
Human Burial Sets Table 1 :many Relationship # 49
Non-Human Burial Sets Table 1: many Relationship # 58
Image Table many:many Relationship # 68
Fields:
  • Unit ID: This field defines a unique ID for each arbitrary unit for which we have descriptive information. In all cases, the form of the P Unit ID uses the name originally assigned by the excavator(s).
  • Excavation Begin Date: Date format: YYYY/MM/DD.
  • Excavation End Date: Date format: YYYY/MM/DD
  • Max Depth:
  • Orientation: degrees *if we have it.
  • Profile Drawn: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unknown
  • Arbitrary Unit type: Drop-down List = Check only one
    • trench
    • excavation unit
    • test unit
    • other
    • unspecified
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ ARTIFACT:

This table records all documented artifacts found in the early excavations of CRA sites. The majority of the artifact entries came from formal catalog lists or cards. However, many times there were more artifacts described in the notes than were formally cataloged. In such cases, these items were entered into the database with a remark stating they were described in the notes rather than in a formal list/catalog. Like other aspects of these early excavations, there is a high degree of variability in how these artifacts were recorded (detail, extent, etc.). IMPORTANT: Each artifact entry includes a set of four physical description fields (material type, sub-material type, form and modification). For composite artifacts consisting of multiple materials (e.g., a bone scraper inlaid with jet and shell), the artifact exists as a single record in the CRA database Artifact Table with multiple physical descriptions.

Related Tables:
Provenience Levels Table many: 1 Relationship # 37
Descriptive Strata/Levels Table many: 1 Relationship # 66
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 38
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 38
Arbitrary Unit Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 38
General Feature Table many: 1 Relationship # 46
Human Burial Sets Table many: 1 Relationship # 55
Individual Human Burial Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 54
Non-Human Burial Sets Table many: 1 Relationship # 53
Fields:
  • Unit ID:
  • Field Catalog #: (number)
  • Field Catalog Description:
  • Field Frequency: (number)
  • Initial Museum Specimen #: (number)
  • Other Museum Specimen #: (number)
  • Museum Catalog Description: In some cases, “Field Catalog Description” and “Museum Catalog Description” will be one and the same, in other cases they will differ.
  • Museum frequency: (number)
  • CRA Material Type: Drop-down List =
    • Shell
    • Wood
    • Stone
    • Ceramic
    • Ceramic-Probable
    • Mineral
    • Metal
    • Non-wood Plant Material
    • Bone
    • Non-bone Animal Material
    • Fossil
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Excavator’s Sub-Material Type: Taken verbatim from the original source (field specimen cards, museum specimen cards, specimen lists, field notes, etc.)
    • Mineral: Turquoise, Lignite, Hematite, Azurite, Malachite, Unspecified
    • Ceramic: Corrugated, Black-on-White, Black-on-Red, Polychrome, Unspecified
    • Non-Wood Plant Material: Yucca, Cotton, Willow, Reed, Phragmites, Unspecified:
    • Wood: Pine or Pinus, Pinyon or P. edulus, Juniper, Populous, Fir, Aspen, Spruce, Unspecified
    • Fossil
    • Metal: Copper
    • Bone: Genus and species
    • Stone: Sandstone, Limestone, Volcanic, Unspecified
    • Shell: Glycimeris, Argopectin, Spondylus, Chama, Trachycardium, Haliotis, Epyscinia, Olivella, Conus, Strombus, Unidentified/Unspecified
  • CRA Sub-Material Type: Normalized controlled vocabulary.  Click here for more information on CRA Sub-Material type categories.
  • Form: Taken verbatim from the original source (field specimen cards, museum specimen cards, specimen lists, field notes, etc.)
    • Ceramic: Bowl, Jar, pitcher, cylinder vessel, ladle, mug, *in cases where the excavator calls it an “olla” – that’s a jar in our terminology.
    • Non-Wood Plant Material: Sandal, Mat, fiber
    • Wood:
    • Fossil:
    • Mineral: Unmodified nodule, pendant, bead, bracelet, ring, debris, unspecified
    • Stone: Hammerstone, axe, maul, core, flake, projectile point, knife, drill, mano, metate
    • Metal: Copper
    • Bone: Scraper, awl
    • Shell: Pendant, bracelet, inlay, bead, ring, debris, unspecified
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ CHACO PROJECT SITE SURVEY FORM:

The Chaco Project Archaeological Survey (1971-1975) was an intensive study designed to inventory the cultural resources contained within what was then called the Chaco Canyon National Monument.  Approximately 2418 archaeological sites were documented as part of this project.

In partnership with the Chaco Culture National Historical Park Archive and Museum Collection, the Chaco Research Archive has digitized significant portions of data created by the Chaco Project Archaeological Survey.  All original site survey forms were keyboarded (verbatim) and those data are available in this table. Users also have the ability to view the original survey forms which are available in the CRA Documentary Accessions table. Records for field specimens recovered during survey were also keyboarded and are available through the CRA Artifact table.  Lastly, Peter J. McKenna conducted ceramic analyses for the survey collections.  Those data are available in the Chaco Project Survey Ceramics table (described above).

In addition to making the original data accessible and searchable, the CRA team has also normalized particular data fields in order to facilitate research queries.  For instance, the Chaco Project survey teams were given a controlled vocabulary of site types they could use to define sites.  As is common in hand written formats, these site types tended to vary in actual usage.  The site type “Sweat Lodge”, for instance, had numerous permutations on the site survey forms including Sweat Lodge, sweatlodge, Sweatbath, Sweat bath, Sweat House, and sweathouse.  To group these permutations under a single heading (as was originally intended by Hayes), the CRA team introduced a normalized site type field as well as site size, site area, min/max number of rooms, min/max number of kivas, min/max number of great kivas, and time period fields.  All such fields are clearly designated below with a “CRA” prefix in the field title.

Related Tables:
Sites Table 1:many Relationship # 73
Fields:
  • Site Number: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Site Type: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.  Please note that there was a prescribed, controlled vocabulary used for these attributions, but in-field analysts did not always adhere to those terms.
  • CRA Site Type: Drop-down List= (check all that apply) 
    • burial
    • cairn
    • corral
    • field house
    • hearth
    • hogan
    • Navajo
    • lithic
    • pithouse
    • pueblo
    • quarry
    • ranch house
    • religious (includes:  great kiva, isolated kiva, shrine, stone circle, etc.)
    • rock art
    • sherd area
    • stairway
    • storage (includes: cist)
    • sweat lodge
    • trail (includes: road)
    • water control (includes: dam)
    • other
    • unspecified
  • Site Names: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Lesser Used Sites Names: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Recorded by: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Old site numbers: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Land owner: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Site elevation: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • CRA Site elevation: Normalized numeric value to allow for elevation range queries.
  • Drainage: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Landform: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form. Please note that there was a prescribed, controlled vocabulary used by Chaco Project surveyors for these attributions, but in-field analysts did not always adhere to those terms.
  • CRA Primary Landform: Normalized drop-down list created from the controlled vocabulary devised by Chaco Project analysts.
  • CRA Secondary Landform: Normalized drop-down list created from the controlled vocabulary devised by Chaco Project analysts.
  • Site exposure: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Slope: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Ground cover: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Nearest water source: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Soil: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Site size: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • CRA long dimension: Number – taken from the Chaco Project site survey form “Site size” field or related field on the survey form.
  • CRA short dimension: Number – taken from the Chaco Project site survey form “Site size” field or related field on the original survey form.
  • CRA area (rectangle): Number – formulaically calculated based on previous two fields.
  • CRA short diameter: Number – taken from the Chaco Project site survey form “Site size” field or related field on the original survey form.
  • CRA area (circle): Number – formulaically calculated based on previous two fields.
  • Depth: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Description number of rooms: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • CRA number of rooms (minimum): Number – taken from the Chaco Project site survey form “Description number of rooms” field or related field on the original survey form.
  • CRA number of rooms (maximum): Number – taken from the Chaco Project site survey form “Description number of rooms” field or related field on the original survey form.
  • Description number of kivas: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • CRA number of kivas (minimum): Number – taken from the Chaco Project site survey form “Description number of kivas” field or related field on the original survey form.
  • CRA number of kivas (maximum): Number – taken from the Chaco Project site survey form “Description number of kivas” field or related field on the original survey form.
  • CRA number of great kivas (minimum): Number – taken from the Chaco Project site survey form “Description number of kivas” field or related field on the original survey form.
  • CRA number of great kivas (maximum): Number – taken from the Chaco Project site survey form “Description number of kivas” field or related field on the original survey form.
  • Site description: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Condition: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Photos: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Specimens: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Remarks: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • References: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Lab notes: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Time period: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • CRA Time period: Normalized drop-down list of temporal assignments. (check all that apply)   
    • Paleoindian
    • BM II
    • Archaic
    • Early Archaic
    • Late Archaic
    • BM III
      • Early BM III
      • Late BM III
    • P I
      • Early P I
      • Late P I
    • P II
      • Early P II
      • Late P II
    • P III
      • Early P III
      • Late PIII
    • P IV
      • Early P IV
      • Late P IV
    • Navajo
    • Historic
    • Anasazi
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Phase: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Dates from: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Dates to: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • Dates of survey form: Text – transcribed verbatim from the original Chaco Project site survey form.
  • CRA notes: Text

♦ CHACO PROJECT SURVEY CERAMIC DATA:

The Chaco Project Archaeological Survey (1971-1975) was an intensive study designed to inventory the cultural resources contained within what was then called the Chaco Canyon National Monument.  Approximately 2418 archaeological sites were documented as part of this project.  This table contains data migrated from Peter J. McKenna’s original Chaco Project Survey ceramics tallies.  See  CRA Accession # 002074 for McKenna’s original data table.

Related Tables:
Sites Table 1:1 Relationship # 74
Fields:
  • Abajo R/O: Number
  • Black Mesa B/W: Number
  • Bluff B/R: Number
  • Chaco B/W: Number
  • Chaco Corrugated: Number
  • Chaco McElmo B/W: Number
  • Chaco San Juan rock temper: Number
  • Chuska B/W: Number
  • Cortez: B/W: Number
  • Deadman’s B/R: Number
  • Degenerative Transitional B/W: Number
  • Four-mile Polychrome: Number
  • Hachure A: Number
  • Hachure B: Number
  • Historic Polychromes: Number
  • Holbrook B/W: Number
  • Kana’a B/W: Number
  • Kana’a Gray: Number
  • Kayenta B/W: Number
  • Kiatuthlana B/W: Number
  • La Plata B/R: Number
  • La Plata B/W: Number
  • Late Pueblo utility: Number
  • Lino Gray: Number
  • Mancos B/W: Number
  • Mesa Verde & proto: Number
  • Mummy Lake-Chaco: Number
  • Navajo Polychrome: Number
  • Navajo utility: Number
  • Newcomb B/W: Number
  • Pena B/W: Number
  • Piedra B/W: Number
  • Puerco B/R: Number
  • Red Mesa B/W: Number
  • Sanostee R/O: Number
  • Smudged reds: Number
  • Sosi-Dogozhi B/W: Number
  • St. John’s B/R, Polychrome: Number
  • Theodore B/W: Number
  • Toadlena B/W: Number
  • Tohatchi/Coolidge Corrugated: Number
  • Tusayan B/R: Number
  • Tusayan Polychrome: Number
  • Wetherill B/W: Number
  • White Mound B/W: Number
  • Wingate B/R: Number
  • Indeterminate B/W: Number
  • Indeterminate Corrugated: Number
  • Indeterminate P1-P2 B/W: Number
  • Indeterminate P2-P3 carbon trachyte: Number
  • Indeterminate plain gray: Number
  • Indeterminate Redware: Number
  • Indeterminate Whiteware: Number
  • CRA notes: Text

♦ COLLECTION:

Contains all the basic information on the materials analyzed/recorded at each repository institution. Collections are defined as one grouping of material within one office or division of one institution (repository). For example, the Papers of Neil Judd in the National Anthropological Archives constitutes one collection. If there is a finding aid at the institution, the format and location will also be included in the database. In some cases, Chaco Research Archive analysts created de facto collections to capture pertinent groupings (.e.g “CDI Digital Collections”, or “Chaco Culture National Historical Park Files”) in the absence of other collection information/organization.

Related Tables:
Institution Table many: 1 Relationship # 2
Storage Unit Table 1:many Relationship # 4
Person Table many: 1 Relationship # 6
Project Table many: many Relationship # 8
Collection Survey Log Table many: many Relationship # 3
CRA Accession Accession Table 1:many Relationship # 9
Fields:
  • Name: Reference name for the particular collection assigned by CRA. In cases where a finding guide is available, the name offered by the repository institution will be used to promote standardization.
  • Short Title: A shortened version of the title.
  • Number: A unique identifier assigned to each collection by CRA.
  • Finding Aid Available: Data Type = Yes/No. A yes or no field indicating whether or not a finding aid for this particular material set is available.
  • Finding Aid Notes: Text field with notes on finding aid.
  • Other Data Source: Any other information produced by the repository institution that offers information/organization about the collection.
  • Types of Material: Text field indicating what types of material are in the collection. See CRA Object type list for all the different types of material that could be entered into this field.
  • Extent of Material: Indicates how much material is in the collection. In some cases this may be very general information and in others it may be quite specific.
  • Recorders Comments: Offers room for more comments, if necessary.
  • CRA Analyst Recorder: Indicates which CRA staff member recorded the information comprising the record.
  • Date Entered: Indicates date on which the record was included in the database.

♦ COLLECTION SURVEY LOG:

Provides information regarding activities conducted on every visit to every institution by every CRA staff member. A visit is defined as one trip (regardless of how long) to one institution by one CRA staff member for the purpose of recording information at a repository.

Related Tables:
Institution Table many: 1 Relationship # 1
Collection Table many:many Relationship # 3
Storage Unit Table many:many Relationship # 10
Fields:
  • Visitation Number: A unique identifier provided by CRA to designate a particular visit by a particular CRA staff member to a particular institution. This field will provide a relationship with the Storage Units Table.
  • CRA Staff Member: Name of the CRA staff member who conducted the visit.
  • Worked With: A general textual description of what materials were examined on the visit.
  • Begin Date of Visit: Date on which visit began—defined as the first day of the visit upon which materials were viewed/recorded at the repository institution.
  • End Date of Visit: Date visit ended—defined as the last day of the visit upon which materials were viewed/recorded at the repository institution.
  • Description of Work: Describes the work accomplished by the CRA staff on this particular visit.
  • Contact Next Visit:

♦ CRA ARCHIVAL ACCESSION:

Provides information on information objects CRA has acquired including their format and source. The CRA Accession table tracks which objects the CRA has actually acquired. Please note: All accessions should have an accompanying archival object entry.

Related Tables:
Archival Object Table many: 1 Relationship # 15
Collection Table many: 1 Relationship # 9
Fields:
  • CRA File Catalog Number: A unique identifier provided to each accession by CRA. This field will provide a relationship with the Objects Table.
  • Accession Type: Format of the accession. Should be roughly the same as the archival “Object Type” list, but variations occur where necessary.
  • Physical File Location: Provides the location of any physical files regarding the data object.
  • Electronic File UVa: Electronic file name.
  • Description of Data: Describes the data that CRA has obtained pertaining to the documentary object, collection etc.
  • Source of Data: Provides the source of the data/metadata—this could be a person or an alternate data source.
  • Receiver of Data: The individual who received the information for CRA (e.g., in cases where scholars send us material).
  • Date Received: Provides the date that CRA received the information.
  • Entered By: Name of the CRA staff member who entered this information into the database.
  • Comments: Any other relevant comments regarding the data.

♦ DESCRIPTIVE STRATA/LEVELS:

Every Provenience Level entry will have at least one Descriptive Level entry in order to describe the contents of the level. The Descriptive Levels also capture levels that were described by the excavator, but not excavated separately. In cases where we recognize multiple descriptive levels for a single provenience level – each descriptive level will have its own entry. For further discussion, see the STRATA/LEVEL description.

Related Tables:
Descriptive Strata/Levels Tables many: 1 Relationship # 29
General Feature Table 1:many Relationship # 35
Human Burial Sets Table 1:many Relationship # 50
Non-Human Burial Sets Table 1: many Relationship # 56
Fields:
  • CRA Level #: Reference name for the particular collection assigned by CRA. In cases where a finding guide is available, the name offered by the repository institution will be used to promote standardization.
  • Display Name: Text – in sequence by level type, i.e. “Floor 1, Floor 2,…”
  • Stratum/level thickness: (metric)
  • Strata Type: Drop-down List. (check only one) 2 stage menu – once you click on a selection in the ‘Strata Type’ field, that selection determines the options you get for the ‘Strata Description’ field – see list below. Only use “unspecified” to describe a strata if nothing else in the drop-down list applies.
    • Floor
    • Roof fall
    • Between-floor fill
    • Fill
    • Subfloor
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Strata Description: Drop-down List. The options available for this field are determined by the selection made in the field above ‘Strata Type’. This field will further describe the options given for ‘Strata Type’. Once you have selected a certain ‘Strata Type’, the one of the options below will appear in the ‘Strata Description’
  • Roof fall: (check all that apply).
    • Primary Beams
    • Secondary Beams
    • Matting
    • Grass
    • Reeds
    • Adobe
    • Bark
    • Splints
    • Unspecified
  • Between floor fill: (check all that apply).
    • Lignite
    • Charcoal
    • Ash
    • Sand – windblown
    • Sand – intentional
    • Sand – unspecified
    • Unspecified
  • Fill: (check all that apply).
    • Roof fall
    • Trash
    • Grass
    • Reeds
    • Sand – windblown
    • Sand – intentional
    • Sand – unspecified
    • Fluvial
    • Wall fall
    • Talus
    • Lignite
    • Charcoal
    • Ash
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Subfloor: (check all that apply – for ground story rooms only).
    • Trash
    • Prior Construction
    • Sand – intentional
    • Sand – windblown
    • Sand – unspecified
    • Sterile
    • Unspecified
  • Excavator’s Description – Sediments:
  • Excavator’s Description – Cultural:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date Entered:Indicates date on which the record was included in the database.
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ EXCAVATION UNIT:

Refines the classification of a given Site Sub-Area to a specific excavation context. An Excavation Unit is the largest unit of excavation designated by the excavator, albeit a square room, round room, trench, area, etc. This table contains the most basic provenience information shared by all types of excavation units.

The Excavation Unit table allows us to differentiate a unit initially defined as one large room which turned out to be two separate rooms: in such cases, there will be a single Excavation Unit entry, but multiple Excavator’s Subunit entries. Thus, a unit with dimensions X by Y may or may not be the same size as a structure defined within that unit. For the early excavations these will often be one and the same (e.g. Pepper started out in a square room with dimensions X by Y and simply continued down in that same square room) but we want to allow enough flexibility to accommodate cases where the dimensions differ. In this way the schema allows for cases of multiple structures (defined in the Square/Round/Arbitrary Unit Characteristics s – see below) within each horizontally delimited space. For example, many multi-story rooms were excavated as one unit by the original excavator. While each separate room is given a separate Square Room entry, all the stories are linked via one Excavation Unit,

In some cases a substructure room exists underneath a superstructure room (where substr. walls are not directly underlying superstr. walls), and the excavation of the superstr. room led to the partial excavation of the substr. walls (i.e., the investigators excavated vertically down within the boundaries of the superstr. room and did not expand or contract to accommodate the walls of the substr. room). In cases where the substructure room is clearly described by the excavator, the substructure room was given a separate (square, round or arbitrary) unit entry and a separate Excavation Subunit from the superstructure room, but kept the same Excavation Unit.

There is great variability in how the substructures were described, especially at Pueblo Bonito. In many cases there are substructure walls that are too complex and incomplete to delineate a clear room space. In these cases no Square Room was entered, and the presence of substructure walls was captured as a “Prior Construction” level in the Descriptive Level table (see below).

Related Tables:
Site Sub-Area Table: many: 1 Relationship # 26
(Recursive relationship – “Unit Relationships”) Relationship # 52
Square Room Characteristics Table 1: many Relationship # 30
Round Room Characteristics Table 1: many Relationship # 30
Arbitrary Unit Characteristics Table 1: many Relationship # 30
Excavation Sub-Unit Table 1:many Relationship # 27
Fields:
  • CRA Excavation Unit Name: Generally speaking, in cases where an excavation unit was later determined to be two separate units (i.e. Pueblo Bonito room 28 became 28a and 28B), the Excavation Unit Name will consist of the largest excavation unit initially defined – in this case, “Room 28”. In this field, we will always use the NPS room names. In cases where the NPS names are conjoined with a ‘/’ (i.e. at Aztec 202-2/201), we will leave off the hyphenated story designation (‘-2’) and always put the lower number first. Such that “202-2/201” will become “Room 201/202.” The same also holds true for Pueblo Bonito NPS room names – such that room “14/85” must list room 14 first. Entries must include a qualifier – either “Room” “Kiva” or “Trench.”
  • Archaeological Unit length: (longest dimension) – this measurement is always for the “S” space. “S” space is the “Vertical Position” (see Square Room and Round Room Characteristics Tables).
  • Archaeological Unit width: (longest dimension) – this measurement is always for the “S” space.
  • Data Status: Drop-down List = In Process, Complete. Make sure to come back and change the data status to “Complete” when finished.
  • General/CRA Notes:
  • Actions Needed:

♦ EXCAVATION SUBUNIT:

Refines the classification of a given Excavation Unit to a more specific excavation context. Excavation Subunit is the smallest unit of excavation designated by an excavator, be it a room quadrant, round room quarter, trench sub-section etc. To the extent that Excavation Units are subdivided into arbitrary horizontal (x,y) sections – this Subunit table allows us to capture those subdivisions. The Excavation Subunit stands in a part-whole relationship to the Excavation Unit. In most cases, for the early historic excavations in Chaco, no Excavation Subunit was entered as it would be the same as the Excavation Unit – as was the case when whole rooms were dug as one entire unit with no horizontal subdivisions.

In some cases a substructure room exists underneath a superstructure room (substr. walls are not directly underlying superstr. walls), and the excavation of the superstr. room led to the partial excavation of the substr. walls (i.e., the investigators excavated vertically down within the boundaries of the superstr. room and did not expand or contract to accommodate the walls of the substr. room). In cases where the substructure room is clearly described by the excavator, the substr. room should be given a separate Square or Round room unit entry and a separate Excavation Subunit from the superstr. room but share the same Excavation Unit.

There is great variability in how substructures are described, especially at Pueblo Bonito. In many cases there are substructure walls that are too complex and incomplete to delineate a clear room space. In these cases no Square Room was entered, and the substructure walls are captured simply as a “Prior Construction” level in the Descriptive Level table (see those table descriptions below).

Related Tables:
Excavation Unit Table many: 1 Relationship # 27
Provenience Level Table 1:many Relationship # 28
Fields:
  • Excavation Subunit Name: If there is no subunit, we simply repeat the Excavator’s unit name.
  • Subunit Type: Drop-down List = Entire Unit, Baulk, Bisection, Quadrant, Grid Unit, Unit Minus Baulk, Trench, Other, Unspecified (select only one).
  • Subunit length: If there is no subunit, repeat the dimension from the Excavation Unit table. If there is a sub-unit, use the starting dimensions.
  • Subunit width: If there is not subunit, repeat the dimension from the Excavation Unit table. If there is a sub-unit, use the starting dimensions.
  • Project: To allow for multiple excavations of a single unit by different projects.
  • Excavator: In cases where two students excavated the subunit – enter both names separated by a comma.
  • Excavation Date: YYYY/MM If we don’t know the month, enter “00”.
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ FEATURE TABLES:

The General Feature table fields are characteristics that all features share – i.e. basic provenience information and basic measurements. At the General Feature table level, features will also be classified with regard to their placement and their general feature type. Provided sufficient information exists, each General Feature table entry will have at least one, possibly multiple Wall Feature, Floor Feature, or Ventilator Feature table entries.

♦ FLOOR FEATURE:

Captures information for all features embedded within floors. This includes both features that are completely concave below a given floor surface and those that are anchored in floors and extend above the floor (i.e. a mealing bin, a slab-lined hearth, etc.). In the case of fallen floor features where the feature is clearly described by the excavator as having fallen from a specific upper story room/context, the floor feature will be linked to the specific upper story Square or Round Room that it is said to have fallen from as well as to the Provenience and Descriptive Levels that the feature was actually found in/excavated from.

Related Tables:
General Feature Table 1: 1 Relationship # 44
Fields:
  • Excavator’s feature description:
  • Excavator’s Type: Examples:
    • Seating for posts/postholes
    • Loom holes * entered together, take the average measurement
    • Ladder seats * entered together, take the average measurement
    • Sipapu
    • Heating Pits
    • Hearths/fire pits
    • Storage Pit/cist
    • Hatch
    • Burial pit
    • Deflector
    • Pilaster offering
    • Room divider
    • Wing wall
    • Jacal wall
    • Mealing bin
    • Fire box
    • Vault
    • Cache
    • Bin
    • Platform
    • Wainscoting*
    • Roasting pit
    • Ovens
    • Door step
    • Random posts in rooms
    • Pot rest
    • Pit (other)
  • CRA Feature Sub-Type: Drop-down List= (Check only one)
    • Thermal (fire pit, hearth, heating pit, roasting pit, fire box, oven, fire place, ash pits, basins with signs of burning, etc…).
    • Storage (storage pit, bell-shaped pit, cist, basin without signs of burning, bins, buried pots that open to a floor surface, etc…).
    • Posts (i.e. vertical – postholes, support beam, etc).
    • Platform (shelf, rack)
    • Cache (offerings, ritual deposits)
    • Dividing walls (not full height): (partitions, wing walls, etc).
    • Burial Pit
    • Other (everything else – example: deflector)
  • Locational Info:
  • Plan view shape: Drop-down List= (Check only one)
    • Round
    • Oval
    • Square
    • Rectangular
    • Triangular
    • Amorphous
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Volume: (if available) (number) in liters
  • Pit lining: Drop-down List= (Check all that apply)
    • Slab
    • Stone
    • Adobe
    • Plaster
    • Ceramic
    • Basketry
    • Lignite
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Characteristics of lining: Burned, unspecified…etc.
  • Exterior facing: Drop-down List = Check all that apply
    • Coursed stone
    • Stone
    • Plastered
    • Adobe
    • Slab
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Characteristics of Facing:
  • Sealed: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified
  • Type/description of pit sealing:
  • Cultural content:
  • Fill/Sediment
  • General/CRA Notes:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)

♦ GENERAL FEATURE CHARACTERISTICS:

Provided sufficient information exists, each General Feature table entry will have at least one, possibly multiple Wall Feature, Floor Feature, or Ventilator Feature table entries. See also the “Feature Tables” entry above.
THE FIELDS BELOW ARE CHARACTERISTICS THAT ALL FEATURES SHARE

Related Tables:
Artifact Table 1: many Relationship # 46
Pre-Hawley Ceramic Tallies Table 1: many Relationship # 46
Post-Hawley Ceramic Tallies Table 1: many Relationship # 46
Square Room Wall Surface Characteristic Table many: many Relationship # 42
Round Room Wall Surface Characteristic Table many: 1 Relationship # 42
Provenience Level Table many: 1 Relationship # 65
Descriptive Strata/Levels Table many: 1 Relationship # 35
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 34
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 34
Arbitrary Unit Table many: 1 Relationship # 34
Human Burial Set Table 1: 1 Relationship # 63
Wall Feature Table 1: many Relationship # 43
Above/In Floor Feature Table 1: 1 Relationship # 44
Ventilator Feature Table 1: 1 Relationship # 45
Non-Human Burial Set Table 1: many Relationship # 64
Fields:
  • Excavator’s Feature ID: Where numbered by the excavator, that number was entered here, if the excavator did not number or individually name the feature (ex. Kiva A, Pueblo Bonito, Judd notes the presence of 34 wall niches with no further description), analysts entered the name used by the excavator such as “niche”, “fireplace”, etc. At times, CRA staff members numbered features where multiple features occurred in the same context for the sake of clarity (e.g. niche 1, niche 2, niche 3, etc.).
  • Unit ID: Drop-down List = (check only one)
  • Feature Tables: If there is no subunit, repeat the dimension from the Excavation Unit table. If there is a sub-unit, use the starting dimensions.
    • Wall (e.g. niche, doorway, vent, cache) NOTE – We are defining a “vent” as any non-doorway connection between two horizontally contiguous rooms. Also, anything designated by the excavator as a “niche”, or something described similarly to a niche containing artifacts or other cultural material, we designate as a “niche.”
    • Ventilator (both subfloor and above floor ventilators) NOTE – Unlike Judd and Morris, we are using a more restricted definition of “ventilator”. We use it to refer predominately (though not exclusively) to kiva features that pass from the wall or floor, extend underground horizontally, then extend vertically – terminating at an opening to the exterior.
    • Floor (e.g. mealing bin, hearth, storage pit, hatch)
  • Feature Type: Drop-down List = check only one; Sipapu does not fit the categories below – so in such cases, leave this field unchecked.
    • Structural/Architectural (posts, benches, door step, pot rest, vault, deflector slabs)
    • Activity/Processing (mealing bins, hearths, all thermal features, ovens)
    • Connective (vent, doorway, ventilator, hatch)
    • Containment (storage pits, burials, niches)
  • Major axis measurement: (number) for wall features, this will always be height.
  • Minor axis measurement: (number) for wall features (in cases where we have two width measurements such as a T-shaped doorway), this will always be minimum width. There is a field to capture maximum width of a t-shaped door in the Wall Feature table.
  • Depth: (number)
  • Associated Cache/offering: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • If yes, Text description of cache/offering:
  • Excavator’s Description of feature:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ HUMAN BURIAL CHARACTERISTICS:

The Human Burial Set and Individual Human Burial tables capture two types of information for human burials. Human Burial Set records characteristics common to all burials and characteristics of burial sets. Individual Human Burial records burial characteristics for individual (i.e. individually described) human burials. Every isolated human bone should be given a human burial entry in the database as well as groups of human bones and formal burials. If the burial was placed in a prepared burial pit, a feature was entered into the General Feature table and Floor Feature table.

♦ HUMAN BURIAL SET:

A skeletal set may include one or more individuals. A skeletal set will include multiple individuals in cases where there is a clear horizontal and vertical association among the individuals and/or elements (a skeletal cluster). If numerous bodies or elements are described in association with one another, these items will share the same CRA Burial Set ID; individual, discrete burials will also receive a CRA Individual Burial ID. Human Burial Set records characteristics common to each burial set. The Human Burial Set table (in its current format) is divided in half. The first half captures basic characteristics that all burials (individual or clustered) share – i.e. is there a drawing of it? Is the body articulated? The second half of the Human Burial Set table provides information applicable only to skeletal clusters. Each Human Burial Set entry does not necessarily have to have an associated Individual Human Burial. If an Individual Human Burial table cannot be filled out, fill out all of the Human Burial Set table. If an Individual Human Burial can be filled out, it is only necessary to fill out the first half of Human Burial Set. If there is a case where there is a combination of skeletal elements that cannot be resolved into individuals and skeletal elements that can, fill out all of both tables.

Related Tables:
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 49
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 49
Arbitrary Unit Table many: 1 Relationship # 49
Descriptive Strata/Levels Table many: 1 Relationship # 50
General Feature Table 1: 1 Relationship # 63
Individual Human Burial Characteristic Table 1: many Relationship # 51
Artifact Table 1: many Relationship # 55
Fields:
  • CRA Burial Set ID: (Example format: 50R003BS01)
  • Unit ID:
  • Excavator’s Burial Designation: Designation, title that the excavator gave to the burial.
  • Single/Multiple: Drop-down List = Single, Multiple
  • Articulated: Drop-down List = Y/N/Both/Unspecified
  • Complete: Drop-down List = Y/N/Both/Unspecified
  • Excavator’s Description:
  • Drawing(s) of burial(s) area available: Drop-down List = Y/N/Both/Unspecified
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:
  • FOR ALL BURIAL CLUSTERS
  • Excavator’s estimate of number of individuals: (entries will include notations such as 5+ or <10)
  • Other estimate of number of individuals: (entries will include notations such as 5+ or <10)
  • Source for other estimate: Designation, title that the excavator gave to the burial.
  • Excavator’s description of skeletal distribution/association:
  • Excavator’s description of associated artifacts: i.e. where objects were placed in relation to multiple bodies
  • Excavator’s description of associated ecofacts:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ IMAGES

Provides the image itself as well as any available information on all images (including photographs, negatives, scans of line drawings or photocopies, etc.) collected by CRA for any site or area in the Chaco Canyon region or, only in the case of Neil Judd, other regions of the Southwest where he conducted fieldwork. Many sites that are not among our eleven primary targets (Pueblo Bonito, Aztec, Bc 50, Bc 51, Bc 53, Bc 57, Bc 58, Bc 59, Chetro Ketl, Talus Unit #1, and Shabik’eshchee) are included in this collection. Information available about images is variable.

Related Tables:
Sites Table many: many Relationship # 67
Square, Round, and Arbitrary Unit Caracteristics many: many Relationship # 68
Projects Table many: 1 Relationship # 69
Human Burial Sets Table many: many Relationship # 70
Institutions Table many: 1 Relationship # 71
Images Table many: many Relationship # 72
Fields:
  • CRA Image #: Data Type=numerical (5 digits) A unique image number assigned by CDI at the time that the image was added into our image catalog.
  • Collection:
  • Box:
  • Folder:
  • Institution #: The file name of the image in the CDI collection, e.g., NAA judd_1907_154
  • Alternate Image #: A combination of the abbreviated Project and their catalog #, e.g., Hyde 003 For many of the prints, the Alternate Image # will be the number listed in the photo caption.
  • Photographer: The name of the individual who took the photograph, if known. If the photographer is unknown, this field is left blank.
  • Date Created: The date the photograph was taken. The format must be in the form “month/day/year”. Month and day may be single or double digits, but year must be four digits. If we know the year the photograph was taken, but not the specific month and day, then we enter “1/1/19xx”
  • Form: Data Type=controlled vocab. The form of the image in the institution’s repository. This is a controlled vocabulary with the following choices:
    • Negative
    • Positive (includes both prints and slides)
    • Caption (used when the CDI image includes only the caption for a related image, such as a caption written on a sleeve containing the print)
    • Drawing (includes profiles and plan views)
  • Image Contains Caption: Data Type=Y/N Indicates whether the image obtained by CDI includes both the photographic image as well as a caption.
  • Artifact Specimen # Data Type=Y/N Indicates whether the CDI image shows an artifact specimen #
  • Room: Includes only the letter or number designation for a room or kiva, e.g., 32, 187, L
  • Caption: Captions for images as provided by the Institution from which the image was collected. These captions are reproduced verbatim and thus may include corrections, e.g., Room 23 at Pueblo Bonito del Arroyo
  • CDI Caption: Caption for images added by CDI staff members.
  • Human Remains: Data Type = Y/N Indicates whether the photo includes any human remains whether complete or fragmentary.
  • Generation: Data Type = text Indicates whether the image in the database is the original image obtained from an institution (indicated as “1st generation”) or a subsequent CDI modification. The first jpeg created from an original tiff image would be “2nd generation,” whereas a smaller jpg created from the 2nd generation jpg would be “3rd generation” Since the original image catalog points toward jpeg images, most images in the catalog will be 2nd generation.
  • Institution of Creation: Data Type = text Indicates the name of the institution (not abbreviated) that created the image file. In most cases, this will be the institution from which we obtained the image. However, in cases where we created an image from a photocopy provided by an institution, then “Chaco Digital Initiative” is the creator.
  • Subject:Drop-down List = (select as many as apply)
    • Architecture
    • Artifact (generic)
    • Artifact-ceramic
    • Artifact-ground stone
    • Artifact-bone
    • Artifact-lithic
    • Artifact-wood
    • Artifact-plant material (for all plant material except for wood, e.g., baskets, corn husks, feather robes)
    • Artifact-ornament
    • Artifact-other
    • Excavation
    • People
    • People-named
    • Feature
    • Feature-burial
    • Agriculture/Water Control
    • Landscape
    • Chaco Wash
    • Travel (on road to and from Chaco)
    • Stratigraphy (for profile drawings or profile photos)
    • Ethnographic
    • Rock Art
  • File name: Data Type = text Indicates where the image file is stored (might be a URL or a direct filename)

♦ INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BURIAL CHARACTERISTICS:

Records burial characteristics for individual human burials. If the published and unpublished descriptions of a burial are in accordance and single-out an individual inhumation for description, that burial will receive an Individual Human Burial table entry. If, however, there is archival evidence to suggest that an individual burial ID was arbitrarily defined – it will not receive an Individual Human Burial table entry. This table is to be used for individuals identified/described in either single or clustered burials. As stated previously, all burials (clustered or not) will have a CRA Burial Set ID.

Related Tables:
Human Burial Sets Table many: 1 Relationship # 51
Artifacts Tables 1: many Relationship # 54
Fields:
  • CRA Individual Burial ID: (in the format 50R003IB01)
  • Orientation: (direction of head)
  • Body Position: Drop-down List=
    • Prone
    • Supine
    • On side
    • Unspecified
    • Incomplete Skeleton
  • Flexion: Drop-down List =
    • Extended
    • Flexed
    • Other
    • Unspecified
    • Incomplete Skeleton
  • Complete: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified
  • Sex: Drop-down List = Male/Female/Indeterminate/Unspecified
  • Minimum Age: number
  • Maximum Age: number
  • Age category: Drop-down List = Check only one
    • Fetus
    • Infant
    • Child
    • Adolescent
    • Adult
    • Unspecified
  • Skeletal Pathologies: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Covering/Wrapping: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Covering or Wrapping type:
  • Matt: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Stone/slab/wood covering: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Associated charcoal or ash: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Excavator’s description of skeletal elements present:
  • Excavator’s description of associated artifacts and ecofacts: i.e. where objects were placed in relation to the body
  • Excavator’s description:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ INSTITUTION:

Provides information on all institutions and institutional offices associated with the Chaco Research Archive, including basic information on the institutions such as their address and relevant contact people.

Related Tables:
Collection Table 1: many Relationship # 2
Project Table many: many Relationship # 7
Person Table many: many Relationship # 5
Collection Survey Log Table 1: many Relationship # 1
Image Table 1: many Relationship # 71
Fields:
  • Full Name: The institution’s full name.
  • Abbrev.: Abbreviation for each institution. (e.g. AMNH)
  • Office: Name of the office within the institution serving as a contact for CRA.
  • Street 1:
  • Street 2:
  • City:
  • State:
  • Zip code:
  • Contact Person:
  • Phone:
  • Fax:
  • Email:
  • URL:

♦ NON-HUMAN BURIAL SET:

Captures all information for non-human burials. For non-human burials in a prepared burial pit a feature was entered in the general feature table and the floor feature table.

Related Tables:
Descriptive Strata/Levels Table many: 1 Relationship # 56
General Feature Table 1: 1 Relationship # 64
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 57
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 57
Arbitrary Unit Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 57
Artifact Tables 1: many Relationship # 53
Fields:
  • CRA Non-Human Burial ID: Format: 50R003NHB01
  • Unit ID:
  • Number of burials:
  • Articulated: Drop-down List= Y/N/Both/Unspecified
  • Complete: Drop-down List= Y/N/Both/Unspecified
  • Genus:
  • Species:
  • Drawing(s) of burial(s) area available: Drop-down List = Y/N/Some/Unspecified
  • Orientation: (direction of the head)
  • Body Position: Drop-down List = (check only one)
    • Prone
    • Supine
    • On side
    • Unspecified
    • Incomplete Skeleton
  • Sex: Drop-down List = Male/Female/Indeterminate/Unspecified
  • Minimum Age: number
  • Maximum Age: number
  • Age category:
  • Covering/Wrapping/Matting: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Covering, Wrapping, or Matting type:
  • Stone/slab/wood covering: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Excavator’s description of skeletal elements present:
  • Excavator’s description of associated artifacts and ecofacts: i.e. where objects were placed in relation to the body
  • Excavator’s description:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ ARCHIVAL OBJECTS:

Provides the most specific information on archival materials viewed by CDI analysts during the inventory process. An archival object is one particular information item contained within a storage unit, which is contained within a collection held by a repository institution. An archival object could be an excavation report, a map, a piece of correspondence, etc. Please Note: There is variability in how photographs were entered in this table according to how the repository institution housed the images. At times an entire set of images was cataloged as a single object, and at other times individual images were cataloged separately. In other cases, CDI received a large batch of digitized images from an institution at one time. In the latter case we did not go back and re-enter all images as objects (grouped or individually). All images and relevant metadata are now captured in the Images Table.

Related Tables:
Storage Unit Table many: many Relationship # 16
Project Table many: 1 Relationship # 14
Site Table many: many Relationship # 13
CRA Archival Accessions Table 1: many Relationship # 15
Fields:
  • Institutions Object Designation: Any unique identifier given by the repository institution to the object.
  • CRA Object #: Unique identifier given by CRA to each object viewed.
  • CRA Object Type: Object type designation provided by CDI. Drop-down List =
    • Annotated Work
    • Artifact-Chipped Stone
    • Artifact-Ground Stone
    • Artifact-Object
    • Artifact-Pottery
    • Bibliography
    • Correspondence
    • Ecofact
    • Electronic File
    • Field Forms
    • Finding Aid
    • Illustration-Architecture
    • Illustration-Chipped Stone
    • Illustration-Ecofact
    • Illustration-Object
    • Illustration-Pottery
    • Illustration-Other
    • Journal
    • List-Code
    • List-Photographs
    • List-Specimen
    • Manuscript-Handwritten
    • Manuscript-Typed
    • Map
    • Notes-Analysis
    • Notes-Field Notes
    • Notes-Lecture
    • Notes-Notebook
    • Notes-Notecard
    • Notes-Miscellaneous
    • Photograph-Collection
    • Photograph-Negative
    • Photograph-Print
    • Photograph-Slide
    • Plan-Archaeological
    • Plan-Architectural
    • Profile
    • Tabular Data
    • Other
  • CRA Description: A textual description of the particular archival object being examined provided by CRA.
  • Comments: Offers room for more comments, if necessary
  • Published: Drop-down List = Yes/No. Indicates whether or not the object has been illustrated or described in a publication.
  • Publication Description: If the “Published” field indicates “yes” then this field will provide any textual details available on the publication—what it is, where it’s located etc.
  • Scanned: Drop-down List = Yes/No. Indicates whether or not the archival object has been scanned.
  • Scan Description Notes:
  • Photographed: Drop-down List = Yes/No. Indicates whether or not the archival object has been photographed.
  • Photo Description Notes:
  • Copyright: Drop-down List = Yes/No. Indicates whether or not the archival object is protected by copyright.
  • Copyright Information: Includes any details regarding the copyright.
  • Extent: “Amount” of the object. For documents, extent is generally thought of as how long the document is, or how many pages. For a collection of photos, we would want to know how many photos are included in the object.
  • Actions Needed: This field allows CRA to flag any very important objects that might require immediate attention for various reasons including preservation concerns.
  • Copy Requested: Drop-down List = Yes/No. Indicates if CRA has requested a copy of the item from the repository institution.
  • Copy Requested Date: Notes the date when CRA requested a copy of the item.
  • High Priority: Indicates whether or not an archival object is considered to be of high priority by CRA. A simple 1 to 10 ranking system will be employed with 1 being lowest priority and 10 being highest.
  • Indicated By: Name of the CRA staff member and/or steering committee member who contributed information to the ranking.
  • Priority Notes: Notes on the ranking of the object. This could include comments made and questions asked by steering committee members.

♦ OUTLIER:

In 1999, 10 archaeologists (John Kantner, Dennis Gilpin, Sarah Herr, Winston Hurst, Jim Kendrick, Keith Kintigh, Nancy Mahoney, Kathy Roler, Ruth Van Dyke, Mark Varien) whose research is on the broader Chacoan World worked together to assemble a comprehensive database reflecting what was known about great houses and the communities in which they were built. Each archaeologist focused his or her attention on the region of the Southwest that they knew best, reviewing records for every great house in that area. A standardized set of variables was collected (below), and each participant also added annotated information and references for each great house. The resulting database is what we’re calling the CRA “Outlier” table.

The Chaco Canyon Outlier Database was built by Dr. John Kantner, Vice President for Academic & Institutional Advancement at the School for Advanced Research and generously donated to the Chaco Research Archive in 2011. Please be aware that this database is not guaranteed to have the most up-to-date, reliable information on each Chacoan great house community. Rather, it serves as a starting point that should be supplemented with additional research.

Related Tables:
Site Table 1: 1 Relationship # 75
Fields:
  • Site Name:
  • General Comments: Text
  • Great House Information: Text
  • Community Information: Text
  • Source: Text
  • References: Text

GREAT HOUSE ARCHITECTURAL DATA

  • Number of Stories: Number
  • Count of Ground Floor Rooms: Number
  • Total Room Count: Number
  • Total Number of Small Kivas: Number
  • Blocked-In Kivas: Number
  • Total Number of Plaza Kivas: Number
  • Total Number of Tower Kivas: Number

MASONRY STYLE

  • Core/Veneer Masonry Style: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown
  • Compound Masonry Style: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown

OTHER ATTRIBUTES

  • Enclosed Plaza: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown
  • Courtyard: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown
  • Berms: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown
  • Roads: Number

CHRONOLOGY

  • Estimated Great House Start Date: Year
  • Estimated Great House End Date: Year
  • Estimated Use Dates Level of Confidence: Drop-down List = Low/Medium/High
  • Estimated Great House Mean Ceramic Date: Year
  • Great House Tree-ring Dates and Contexts: Text
  • Chaco Period Burials: Number
  • Post-Chacoan Occupation: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown

GREAT HOUSE EXCAVATION DATA

  • Estimated Percentage of Architecture ExcavatedNumber
  • Extramural Excavations: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown
  • Number of Mealing Bins: Number
  • Number of Other Hearths: Number
  • Percentage of Excavated Rooms w/o Floor Features: Text
  • Number of Room Suites: Number
  • Post-Chacoan Occupation: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown

GREAT KIVAS

  • Total Number of Great Kivas: Number
  • Total Number of Attached Great Kivas: Number
  • Total Number of Detached/Associated Great Kivas: Number
  • Great Kiva Start Date – Mean Ceramic Date: Year
  • Great Kiva End Date – Mean Ceramic Date: Year
  • Great Kiva Mean Date – Mean Ceramic Date: Year
  • Great Kiva Tree-ring Dates: Text

COMMUNITIES

  • Number of Great Houses in Community: Number
  • Pre-existing Community: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown
  • Post-Chacoan Community: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown
  • Survey Area Around Great House: Number (km2)
  • Number of Residential Communities: Drop-down List = True/False/Unknown
  • Residential Site Density: Number (#/km2)
  • Population Estimate of Community: Number (1 room = 1 person; excluding great house room count)
  • Population Density: Number (#/km2)

♦ PERSON:

Contains information regarding all individual scholars referred to in the database. This allows us to easily query the database for all the materials/collections relating to one individual and to track the role of scholars within particular projects and institutions.

Related Tables:
Institution Table many: many Relationship # 5
Collection Table 1: many Relationship # 6
Project Table many: many Relationship # 11
Work Table many: many Relationship # 20, 21
Documentary Instance Table many: many Relationship # 22
Fields:
  • Scholar: Full name of scholar.

♦ POST-HAWLEY CERAMIC TALLY:

Captures ceramic counts given in Post Hawley categories. Specimens labeled “Lino” in CDI accessions should be counted in this table as “Lino Gray” unless otherwise noted.

Related Tables:
Provenience Level Table many: 1 Relationship # 37
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 38
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 38
Arbitrary Unit Table many: 1 Relationship # 38
General Feature Table many: 1 Relationship # 46
Human Burial Set Table many: 1 Relationship # 55
Individual Human Burial Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 54
Non-Human Burial Sets Table many: 1 Relationship # 53
Fields:
  • Unit ID:
  • Bluff: Count
  • Forestdale Smudged: Count
  • Kana-a Grey: (Kana-a banded, Kana-a neckbanded, Kana-a corrugated) Count
  • Lino Grey: (Specimens labeled “Lino” in CDI accessions should be counted in this table as “Lino Gray” unless otherwise noted.) Count
  • Reserve Brown: (Reserve plain) Count
  • Rio de Flag Brown: Count
  • Rio de Flag Smudged: Count
  • San Francisco Red: Count
  • Sunset Red: Count
  • Wingate Red: Count
  • Other (e.g., Sandstone Red): Count
  • Unclassified Brown-red-orange plainware: Count
  • Chaco corrugated: Count
  • Chaco grey incised: Count
  • Exuberant corrugated: Count
  • Gila corrugated (Upper Gila corrugated): Count
  • Pueblo II corrugated: Count
  • Winona corrugated: Count
  • Other (corrugated): Count
  • Unclassified corrugated: Count
  • Chaco B/W: Count
  • Deadman’s B/W: Count
  • Escavada B/W: Count
  • Gallup B/W: Count
  • Kana-a B/W: Count
  • La Plata B/W: Count
  • Lino B/G (Lino B/W): Count
  • McElmo B/W (St. Elmo B/W): Count
  • Mesa Verde B/W: Count
  • Red Mesa B/W: Count
  • Other B/W: Count
  • Unclassified B/W: Count
  • Abajo R/O: Count
  • Bluff B/R: Count
  • Deadman’s B/R: Count
  • Medicine B/R: Count
  • Puerco B/R: Count
  • Tusayan B/R: Count
  • Wingate B/R: Count
  • Citadel Polychrome: Count
  • Reserve Polychrome: Count
  • Tusayan Polychrome: Count
  • Other black-on-orange, black-on-red, polychrome (Sandstone B/O): Count
  • Unclassified black-on-orange, black-on-red, polychrome: Count
  • Ceramic Total: (number)
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ PRE-HAWLEY CERAMIC TALLY:

Captures ceramic counts given in Pre-Hawley (Roberts) ceramic categories. Each category will have an absolute frequency. These percentages are only available for the floor and in some cases, the sub-floor levels of a structure.

Related Tables:
Provenience Level Table many: 1 Relationship # 37
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 38
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 38
Arbitrary Unit Table many: 1 Relationship # 38
General Feature Table many: 1 Relationship # 46
Human Burial Set Table many: 1 Relationship # 55
Individual Human Burial Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 54
Non-Human Burial Sets Table many: 1 Relationship # 53
Fields:
  • Unit ID:
  • Pre-Pueblo B/W:
  • Late Pre-Pueblo B/W: Count
  • Reused Late Pre-Pueblo Design: (Kana-a banded, Kana-a neckbanded, Kana-a corrugated) Count
  • Early Hachure B/W: (Specimens labeled “Lino” in CDI accessions should be counted in this table as “Lino Gray” unless otherwise noted.) Count
  • Late Hachure B/W: (Reserve plain) Count
  • Solid Design B/W: Count
  • Mesa Verde B/W: Count
  • Chaco-Mesa B/W: Count
  • Foreign Types B/W: Count
  • Corrugated Exterior, B/W Interior: Count
  • Miscellaneous: Count
  • Band: Count
  • Plain-Granular: Count
  • Corrugated Coil: Count
  • Incised Design: Count
  • Early Red: Count
  • Late Red: Count
  • Polychrome: Count
  • Foreign Red (Little Colorado): Count
  • Polished Black Interior: Count
  • Black Interior, Coiled Exterior: Count
  • Ceramic Total: (number)
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ PROJECT:

Includes information on particular projects and all the materials derived from or discovered by any particular project. The various components of any Projects may have similar titles, such as ‘The Chaco Project’, but these projects will be differentiated from others by the Study Title field.

Related Tables:
Site Table many: many Relationship # 12
Documentary Instance Table 1: many Relationship # 14
Person Table many: many Relationship # 11
Institution Table many: many Relationship # 7
Collection Table many: many Relationship # 8
Image Table 1: many Relationship # 69
Fields:
  • Name:
  • Short Project Title:
  • Study Title:Name of the office within the institution serving as a contact for CRA.
  • Description:
  • Begin Fieldwork:
  • End Fieldwork:
  • Project Type:

♦ PROVENIENCE LEVEL:

Captures vertical levels as the original researcher excavated them. Each Provenience Level entry must have at least one Descriptive Level entry, but may have more than one Descriptive Level entry if more than one strata type is described in the excavator’s notes.

Related Tables:
Excavation Subunit Table many: 1 Relationship # 28
Descriptive Strata/Level Table 1:many Relationship # 29
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 31
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 31
Arbitrary Unit Table many: 1 Relationship# 31
General Feature Table 1:many Relationship # 65
Artifact Table 1: many Relationship # 37
Pre-Hawley Ceramic Tally Table 1: many Relationship # 37
Post-Hawley Ceramic Tally Table 1: many Relationship # 37
Fields:
  • Excavator’s Level Name: E.g., in the case of Pepper – “Room __”, in the case of Roberts we will have something to enter here. If it is clear that the excavator dug in discrete vertical units, this will refer to their classification of the area (floor, fill, sand layer).
  • CRA Level #: Level “01” is always the uppermost level (this will be entered as an appended P unit ID – eg. AZWR202-2L01 or PBR107L01). Always put a zero placeholder in for levels 1-9 (e.g. PBR107L01). Strat column levels should be named as such: PBR107SCL01.
  • Data Available: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unknown
  • Level Type: Drop-down List. (check only one)
    • Natural
    • Cultural
    • Natural/Cultural *In cases where we know it wasn’t arbitrary, but we don’t know specifically if it was excavated as a natural or a cultural stratum.
    • Arbitrary
    • Entire Unit
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Project:
  • Excavator: In cases where two students excavated the subunit – enter both names separated by a comma.
  • Date Excavated: Date format = YYYY/MM/DD If we don’t know the month or the day, enter “00”. If the start date for the excavation of this level is known, use this date here.
  • Context Length:
  • Context Width:
  • Datum Reference: Either specific datum name, “surface” in cases where depths are measured from ground surface of the particular excavation unit, and “not specified” in other cases.
  • Starting Depth: If there is not a datum reference, then we put “0” for surface (where applicable), or “Unspecified” in other cases.
  • Ending Depth: Maximum depth or “Unspecified”.
  • Created By: (CRA Person).
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes: (E.g. “There are discrepancies between “Smith’s” and “Roberts’” level descriptions…”)

♦ RELATED EXCAVATION UNITS:

This relationship connects overlapping Excavation Units i.e. a trench that extends into a round room that was later excavated separately, or a square room remodeled into a round room. If two excavation units simply intersect, we will not try to capture that with this relationship. This relationship applies only when we know that two Excavation Units are overlapping.

Related Tables:
(Join Table) Relationship # 52
Fields:
  • CRA Excavation Unit ID:

♦ ROUND ROOM CHARACTERISTICS:

Captures information unique to round rooms. See also “Unit Characteristics” table description.

Related Tables:
CRA Accessions Table many: many Relationship # 40
Provenience Levels Table 1: many Relationship # 31
Excavation Units Table many: 1 Relationship # 30
Round Room Wall Surface Characteristics Table 1: 1 Relationship # 32
Round Room Unit Equivalencies 1: many Relationship # 36
Square Room/Round Room Relationships 1: many Relationship # 36
General Feature Table 1: many Relationship # 34
Artifacts Tables 1: many Relationship # 38
Human Burial Sets Table 1 :many Relationship # 49
Non-Human Burial Sets Table 1: many Relationship # 57
Tree-Ring Dates Table 1: many Relationship # 58
Image Table many:many Relationship # 68
Fields:
  • Unit ID: This field defines a unique ID for each kiva, pithouse, etc. for which we have descriptive information. In all cases, the form of the P Unit ID uses the name originally assigned by the excavator(s).
  • Round Room ID Discrepancy Notes: Write “none” if there is no information to put here.
  • Excavator’s Structure Type: Drop-down List =
    • Kiva
    • Great Kiva
    • Pithouse
    • Mealing Room
    • Storage Room
    • Other
  • Excavation Begin Date: Date Format: YYYY/MM/DD.
  • Excavation End Date: Data Format: YYYY/MM/DD.
  • Excavation Circa: e.g. 1896-1897
  • Antechamber: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • If Yes, [P] Unit ID (Unique ID): i.e PBR006
  • Keyhole shape: Drop-down List = Y/N/Indeterminate/Unspecified
  • Round Room Diameter: For measurements of unspecified orientation, and unspecified vertical location (top, floor, above bench, etc.)
  • North-South Diameter:
  • East-West Diameter:
  • Diameter at Top:
  • Diameter at Floor:
  • Area:
  • Ceiling Height (from floor):
  • Minimum Number of Floors:
  • Maximum Number of Floors: These two fields (Min and Max # of floors) will allow us to capture contradictory counts. If notes mention that there may have been “floors” (as opposed to one “floor”), write “Multiple” in the field for Maximum Number of Floors.
  • Floor Notes:
  • Number of Pilasters:
  • Pilaster type:
    • Radial log
    • Pier
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • If Radial Log:
  • Diameter: i.e PBR006
  • Number of Pilasters with offerings:
  • Average Pilaster height:
  • Average Pilaster width:
  • Average Pilaster depth:
  • Pilaster note field:
  • Number of Masonry Pillars:
  • Number of Benches: (0,1,2,…9, Unspecified)
  • Bench Recess: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified
  • Depth to Bench: Bench depth, width, and height are filled in when there is a single bench. If there are multiple benches present, the recorder will state that in the “Bench Notes” field so the researcher knows to look back at the original notes for information on those benches. Only fill this field out if the depth is measured from the kiva rim (use max. height of kiva rim). If measurement of depth to bench is given from surface, put this measurement in the “Bench Notes” field.
  • Bench Width:
  • Bench Height: Measured from uppermost floor
  • Wainscoting: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Bench Notes:
  • Ventilator: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Deflector: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Hearth: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Floor Vault(s)/Bins/Cysts: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Number of Vertical Support Posts:
  • Cribbed roof: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified
  • Entrance type(s): Drop-down List = (can be multiple)
    • Hatch
    • Staircase
    • Ramp
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Orientation: (Excavator’s Designation)
  • Orientation: Degrees
  • Lekson Construction Episode ID: Drop-down List = I, II, IIIA, IIIB, IIIC, IVA, IVB, IV, VIA, VIB, VIIA, VIIB, VIIC, VIID, VIIE, Unspecified, Unavailable
  • Windes Episode Dates: Format: Date Brackets – Neitzel 2003
  • Evidence of Burning: Drop-down List = (can be multiple)
    • No
    • Yes – Unspecified (Author only notes room was burnt but does not mention specific evidence)
    • Burned Roofing Material
    • Reddened Masonry
    • Reddened Plaster
    • “Calcined”
    • Unspecified
  • Evidence of Sooting/Blackened: Drop-down List = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Bustard Mean Depth: Data Type=numerical; (4 digits – e.g., 3.182) See Bustard PhD appendix G for small house data and appendix M for great house data.
  • Bustard Standardized Integration: Data Type=numerical; (4 digits – e.g., 3.182) See Bustard PhD appendix G for small house data and appendix M for great house data.
  • Bustard Control: Data Type=numerical; (4 digits – e.g., 3.182) See Bustard PhD appendix G for small house data and appendix M for great house data.
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ ROUND ROOM WALL SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS:

See “Wall Surface Characteristics” entry.

Related Tables:
Round Room Unit Characteristics Table 1: 1 Relationship # 32
General Feature Table many: many Relationship # 42
Fields:
  • Unit ID:
  • Masonry Type:
  • Masonry Type source:
  • Wall Measurement: max height
  • Wall height taken from: Drop-down List =
    • From bench
    • From floor
    • Unspecified
  • Evidence of Burning: Drop-down List = (check all that apply)
    • No
    • Yes – Unspecified (Author only notes room was burnt but does not mention specific evidence)
    • Burned Roofing Material
    • Reddened Masonry
    • Reddened Plaster
    • “Calcined”
    • Unspecified
  • Evidence of Sooting/Blackened: Drop-down List = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Plaster present: Drop-down List =
    • No
    • Yes- Unspecified (e.g. “Heavily plastered” would be classified as “Yes-Unspecified”. For instance, I could infer from the description “heavily plastered” that there were multiple layers – but we would not know that for sure.)
    • Single
    • Multiple
    • Unspecified
  • Whitewashing present: Drop-down List = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Wall Decoration: (i.e. painted or incised) Drop-down List = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Wall Surface Description:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ SITE:

Captures basic information about each site such as multiple naming conventions and official site numbers. This table also links a site to both archival information about that site, as well as archaeological data entered concerning that site.

Related Tables:
Objects Table many: many Relationship # 13
Projects Table many:many Relationship # 12
Site Maps Table 1: many Relationship # 24
Site Sub-Area Table 1: many Relationship # 25
Tree-Ring Dates Table 1: many Relationship # 47
Images Table many: many Relationship # 67
Chaco Project Site Survey Form Table 1: 1 Relationship # 73
Chaco Project Survey Ceramic Data Table 1: many Relationship # 74
Fields:
  • Popular Name:
  • CRA Site Name:
  • Smithsonian Number:
  • State Official Number:
  • Bc Site Number:
  • UTM Northing:
  • UTM Easting:
  • NPS Site Number:
  • Comments:

♦ SITE SUB-AREA:

Captures basic information about each site such as multiple naming conventions and official site numbers. This table also links a site to both archival information about that site, as well as archaeological data entered concerning that site.

Related Tables:
Sites Table many: 1 Relationship # 25
Excavation Units Table 1: many Relationship # 26
Fields:
  • CRA Site Sub-Area Name: For the majority of entries analysts used one of the following sub-area terms: Roomblock, Plaza, Midden, Mound, Extramural, or NE Foundation Complex.
  • Excavator’s Designation/Excavation Area Name: (if given) e.g. Judd’s “Northeast Foundation Complex”
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ SQUARE ROOM CHARACTERISTICS:

Captures information unique to square rooms. See also “Unit Characteristics” table description.

Related Tables:
CRA Accessions Table many: many Relationship # 40
Provenience Levels Table 1: many Relationship # 31
Excavation Units Table many: 1 Relationship # 30
Unit Equivalencies Table 1: many Relationship # 36
Square Room/Round Room Relationships 1: many Relationship # 39
Square Room Wall Surface Characteristics Table 1: many Relationship # 59
Square Room Ceiling Characteristics Table 1: 1 Relationship # 33
General Feature Table 1: many Relationship # 34
Artifacts Tables 1: many Relationship # 38
Human Burial Sets Table 1 :many Relationship # 49
Non-Human Burial Sets Table 1: many Relationship # 57
Tree-Ring Dates Table 1: many Relationship # 58
Image Table many:many Relationship # 68
Fields:
  • Unit ID: This field defines a unique ID for each room for which we have descriptive information. In all cases, the form of the P Unit ID uses the room name originally assigned by the excavator(s).
  • Square Room ID Discrepancy Notes: Use this field in cases where mistakes were made – i.e. Pepper called it “Room 67” but mislabeled it on a map and it’s actually Judd’s Kiva Z. If there is no information to put in this field, write “none”.
  • Excavation Begin Date: Date Format: YYYY/MM/DD.
  • Excavation End Date: Data Format: YYYY/MM/DD.
  • Excavation Circa: e.g. 1896-1897
  • Vertical Position: Drop-down List= = Alphabetized letters The level context in which the excavator started will always be assigned “S” as its vertical position. The stories above will be named “R” (Q, P, O…on up). The stories below it will be named “T” (U, V, W… on down). “Indeterminate” is also an option.
  • Northeast to Southwest Diagonal Measurement:
  • Northwest to Southeast Diagonal Measurement: :
  • Long axis measurement:
  • Short axis measurement:
  • Notes: Alternate Measurements, other “source” information would go here.
  • Is this room an antechamber: Drop-down List = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Area: Area recorded in metric to two decimal points.
  • Ceiling Height (from floor):
  • Minimum Number of Floors:
  • Maximum Number of Floors: These two fields (Min and Max # of floors) will allow us to capture contradictory counts. If notes mention that there may have been “floors” (as opposed to one “floor”), write “Multiple” in the field for Maximum Number of Floors.
  • Evidence of Partition: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Square room-wide Platform or Shelf: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • Number Vertical Posts and Postholes:
  • Lekson Construction Episode ID: Drop-down List = I, II, IIIA, IIIB, IIIC, IVA, IVB, IV, VIA, VIB, VIIA, VIIB, VIIC, VIID, VIIE, Unspecified, Unavailable
  • Other Construction Episode Dates – Windes: Format: Date Brackets – Neitzel 2003. Use “Unavailable” for all sites except Pueblo Bonito.
  • Evidence of Burning: Drop-down List = (can be multiple)
    • No
    • Yes – Unspecified (Author only notes room was burnt but does not mention specific evidence)
    • Burned Roofing Material
    • Reddened Masonry
    • Reddened Plaster
    • “Calcined”
    • Unspecified
  • Evidence of Sooting/Blackened: Drop-down List = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Wall Plaster: Drop-down List =
    • No
    • Yes – Unspecified e.g. “Heavily plastered” would be classified here.
    • Single
    • Multiple
    • Unspecified
  • Wall Whitewashing: Drop-down List =Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Wall Surface Description: Fill in only if wall surface observations are general to the square room and are not wall specific. In those cases, we will include that information in the [S] tables.
  • Bustard Mean Depth: Data Type=numerical; (4 digits – e.g., 3.182) See Bustard PhD appendix G for small house data and appendix M for great house data.
  • Bustard Standardized Integration: Data Type=numerical; (4 digits – e.g., 3.182) See Bustard PhD appendix G for small house data and appendix M for great house data.
  • Bustard Control: Data Type=numerical; (4 digits – e.g., 3.182) See Bustard PhD appendix G for small house data and appendix M for great house data.
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ SQUARE ROOM CEILING CHARACTERISTICS:

Captures basic ceiling characteristics for a given square room. This table was filled out if a portion the ceiling is actually intact (above head-level).

Related Tables:
Square Room Characteristics Table 1: 1 Relationship # 33
Fields:
  • Unit ID:
  • Number of Intact Primary Beams Observed at Time of Excavation: Number Observed or Unspecified
  • Matting: Drop-down List = P/A/Unspecified
  • If matting present, material:
  • Ceiling: Drop-down List = Intact/Inferred
  • Orientation of primaries: Drop-down List = Check only one
    • N/S
    • E/W
    • NE/SW
    • NW/SE
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ SQUARE ROOM WALL SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS:

See “Wall Surface Characteristics” entry.

Related Tables:
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 59
General Feature Table many: many Relationship # 42
Fields:
  • Unit ID:
  • Excavator’s directional designation:
  • Masonry Type:
  • Masonry Type source: (Judd, Lekson, etc.)
  • Wall length:
  • Wall Measurement: max height
  • Corner – Left: Drop-down List = Tied, Abutted, Both, Continuous, Unknown, No Data
  • Corner – Right: Drop-down List = Tied, Abutted, Both, Continuous, Unknown, No Data
  • NPS Chinking: Drop-down List = Yes, No, No data<
  • NPS # of Wall Pegs/Hangers: (Number; blank or unspecified for no data)<
  • NPS/CDI ledge/recess: Drop-down List= P/A/Unspecified<
  • Evidence of Burning: Drop-down List = (check all that apply)
    • No
    • Yes – Unspecified (Author only notes room was burnt but does not mention specific evidence)
    • Burned Roofing Material
    • Reddened Masonry
    • Reddened Plaster
    • “Calcined”
    • Unspecified
  • Evidence of Sooting/Blackened: Drop-down List = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Plaster present: Drop-down List =
    • No
    • Yes- Unspecified e.g. “Heavily plastered” would be classified as Unspecified (For instance, I could infer from the description “heavily plastered” that there were multiple layers – but we would not know that for sure.)
    • Single
    • Multiple
    • Unspecified
  • Wall Whitewashing: Drop-down List = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Wall Decoration: (i.e. painted or incised) Drop-down List = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Wall Surface Description:
  • Number of primary beam sockets:
  • Number of secondary beam sockets:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ SQUARE ROOM / ROUND ROOM RELATIONSHIP:

A join table that allows us to track horizontal connectivity as well as vertical connectivity and adjacency.

Related Tables:
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 39
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 48
Wall Feature Table many: 1 Relationship # 62
Fields:
  • Round Room Unit ID:
  • Square Room (1) Unit ID:
  • Square Room (2) Unit ID:
  • Connection Type: Drop-down List = Connected, Unconnected, Open Room, Unknown
  • Position: Drop-down List = Above, Below, Beside
  • Feature ID: Feature identification number (unique key) that refers to a doorway or window. In cases where a kiva is connected to a room by a ventilator (such as Bc 51, Kiva 6 and Room 25), the connection will be kept in the database, but the feature will not be linked to the relationship (because the database structure only allows wall features to be connected to room relationships).
  • CRA Notes:

♦ STORAGE UNIT:

Pertains to the individual boxes, containers, sets or lots etc. that the repository institution uses to arranged and store a collection. For instance, the papers of Neil Judd are contained within boxes that are listed in a finding aid. In this case, each box is a storage unit. Storage units comprise collections, which are located within institutions. In some cases, Chaco Research Archive analysts created de facto storage units to capture pertinent groupings (.e.g “Maxwell Museum – General Files”, or “Chaco Archive – General Files”).

Related Tables:
Collection Table many: 1 Relationship # 4
Archival Object Table many: many Relationship # 16
Collection Survey Log Table many: many Relationship # 10
Fields:
  • Institutions Catalog No: The number or identifier, if any, provided for this particular lot by the repository institution.
  • Institutions Catalog Description: Any textual description provided by the repository institution pertaining to the lot. In cases where no description was provided, analysts created descriptions to populate this field.
  • CRA Storage Unit Designator: A brief description created by a CRA analyst
  • CRA Description of Materials: General textual description of the materials in a storage unit.
  • Post Fieldwork Manuscript: Brief explanation of the post-fieldwork manuscript(s) contained in this storage unit.
  • Manuscript Documentation: Brief explanation of the manuscript(s) contained in this storage unit.
  • Field notes: Drop-down list = Yes/No/Unspecified. Indicates whether or not this Storage Unit contains field notes.
  • Field notes Description: Brief explanation of field notes contained in the Storage Unit
  • Field Catalog: Drop-down list = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Field Catalog Description: Brief explanation/description of the field catalog contained in the Storage Unit
  • Photographs: Drop-down list = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Photographs Description: Brief explanation/description of the photographs contained in the Storage Unit.
  • Drawings: Drop-down list = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Drawings Description: Brief description/explanation of drawings contained in the Storage Unit
  • Maps: Drop-down list = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Maps Description: Brief description/explanation of maps contained in the Storage Unit
  • Correspondence: Drop-down list = Yes/No/Unspecified
  • Correspondence Description: Brief explanation/description of the correspondence held in the Storage Unit
  • Other Description: Description of any other important information pertaining to the storage unit.
  • Actions Needed: Describes any immediate actions needed for this lot. For instance, items judged to be of particular importance to CDI staff and/or in need of immediate preservation could be flagged for special attention such as immediate scanning, photography etc.
  • Action Date: Date of any action taken on this storage unit.

♦ STRATA / LEVELS:

Capture the (z) dimension of the Excavation Unit and Excavation Subunit sequence. These tables provide a way to capture the smallest vertical provenience unit excavated as such by the excavator as well as describe layers identified by the excavator even if the weren’t excavated as separate levels. For instance, if Pepper dug square room 100 as one massive level but described a layer of roof fall, trash fill, and five adobe floor surfaces each separated by a layer of sand – we wanted to be able to capture all those distinctions. To do this, we created a Provenience Level and a Descriptive Level table. In the hypothetical Pepper scenario, square room 100 would have a single Provenience Level entry and eleven Descriptive Level entries (roof fall, trash fill, five floors and 4 sand layers). In cases where the excavator dug in discrete levels, each Provenience Level entry would have only one Descriptive Level entry. Every Provenience Level must have at least one Descriptive Level entry. Processing the stratigraphic data in this way allows us to extract more information while still retaining the excavator’s original vertical divisions.

The Provenience Level table also captures levels that were dug by different excavators and projects. For example at Pueblo Bonito some of the rooms first dug by George Pepper were later excavated to a lower depth by Neil Judd. In this case the upper levels of the room dug by George Pepper would be separate Provenience Levels from the lower level dug by Neil Judd.

PLEASE NOTE: Every Excavation Subunit (where it was necessary to create one) will have at least one Provenience Level entry except in cases where we have no information available for a room. Given the methods of early excavators, most of the historic excavations will have only one Provenience Level entry. ALSO NOTE: Sometimes artifacts will be connected to Provenience Level, and sometimes to the Descriptive Level.

♦ TREE-RING DATES:

Captures information from the tree-ring spreadsheet sent to us by Jeff Dean of the Tree Ring Laboratory. See the tree-ring database page for further description.

Related Tables:
Sites Table many: 1 Relationship # 47
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 58
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 58
Arbitrary Unit Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 58
Wall Features Table many: 1 Relationship # 61
Ventilators Table many: 1 Relationship # 60
Fields:
  • Unit ID:
  • Site:
  • Excavation Unit:
  • Provenience:
  • TRL Number:
  • Species:
  • Inside Date:
  • Inside Code:
  • Outside Date:
  • Outside Code:
  • Story:
  • Wall:
  • Feature:
  • Use:
  • Condition of Beam End:
  • Date of Analysis:
  • Source:
  • Remarks:

♦ UNIT CHARACTERISTICS:

These tables allow us to record information about characteristics for discrete cultural and arbitrary unit types. For this purpose, we have designed three separate unit tables for three different unit types. The cultural unit types are: Square Rooms, Round Rooms. (Round rooms include kivas, great kivas, and pithouses.) The arbitrary unit type includes trenches/arbitrary excavation units. We have limited the fields for these tables to the most basic dimensions (length, width, height) as well as context specific unit dimensions (e.g. round room diameter, basic round room features, etc.) and some presence/absence indicators for standard architectural features e.g. benches, pilasters, platforms, ventilators, etc. In some cases a substructure room exists underneath a superstructure room (substr. walls are not directly underlying superstr. walls), and the excavation of the superstr. room led to the partial excavation of the substr. walls (i.e., the investigators excavated vertically down within the boundaries of the superstr. room and did not expand or contract to accommodate the walls of the substr. room). In cases where the substructure room is clearly described by the excavator, the substr. room should be given a separate Square or Round Room entry and Excavation Subunit from the superstr. room, but should keep the same Excavation Unit. There is great variability in how the substructures were described, especially at Pueblo Bonito. In many cases there are substructure walls that are too complex and incomplete to delineate a clear room space. In these cases no Square or Round Room should be entered, and the substructure walls should be captured as a “Prior Construction” level in the Descriptive Level table (see description table above).

♦ UNIT EQUIVALENCIES:

Designed to record alternate Cultural Unit designations in cases where there is more than one designation for the same context. For example, Pepper and Judd occasionally assigned the same room different numbers. Every equivalent unit designation for a given context would receive a separate Unit Equivalencies entry. This table was used in a limited fashion, often, the discrepancy was noted in the Square Room or Round Room table in the ‘Room ID Discrepancy Notes’ field.

Related Tables:
Square Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 36
Round Room Characteristics Table many: 1 Relationship # 36
Fields:
  • Unit ID:
  • Alternate Unit Designation:
  • Assigned By:
  • Date:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ VENTILATOR FEATURE:

Captures information for ventilators – both subfloor and above floor varieties. Depending on which type of ventilator an analyst is entering, it must have either a CDI Stratum/Level ID or a Wall Surface ID. Subfloor ventilators require the former and above floor ventilators the latter.

Related Tables:
General Feature Table 1: 1 Relationship # 45
Tree-Ring Dates Table many: 1 Relationship # 60
Fields:
  • Ventilator Type: Drop-down List =
    • Above Floor
    • Subfloor
    • Unspecified
  • Vent shape:
  • Ventilator lining:
    • Masonry
    • Wood
    • Slab
    • Plaster
    • Adobe
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Multiple construction episodes: Drop-down List= y/n/unspecified
  • Depth From Floor (Subfloor Ventilators Only): (number)
  • Depth of Shaft From Origin Surface: (number)
  • NPS Sealed: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified
  • NPS Filled: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified, *completely closed, i.e. masonry, adobe, etc.
  • Vent cover: Drop-down List= P/A/Unspecified, *vent cover is something like a removable sandstone slab.
  • Cultural content:
  • Fill/Sediment:
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ WALL FEATURE:

Captures information for all features embedded within walls, with the exception of kiva ventilators. Often wall features are modified from a door, for example, into something else (i.e. a vent or a niche). In these instances two wall feature entries will be created corresponding with one (parent) General Feature entry – one for the door and one for the vent. What we’re really trying to capture in this table is a change in function. For instance, we aren’t concerned with capturing the three episodes by which a doorway opening shrunk smaller and smaller, but remained a doorway, with three separate wall feature entries. These details will be captured in a single Wall Feature table entry using “Modified” and the “Notes” fields. The one caveat to this is that we are interested in capturing cases where a t-shaped door is modified to a square door. These cases will be treated the same as the door→vent scenario just described, where the T-shaped door and the square door get separate Wall Feature table entries linked to one (parent) General Feature table entry.

Related Tables:
General FeatureTable many: 1 Relationship # 43
Square Room/Round Room Relationships Table 1: many Relationship # 62
Tree-Ring Date Table 1: many Relationship # 61
Fields:
  • Feature Sub-Type: Drop-down List = (Check only one)
    • Vent
    • Doorway
    • Pilaster
    • Niche (Anything designated by the excavator as a “niche”, or something described similarly we designate as a “niche” in the database.)
    • Platform
    • Cache (This applies only to multiple objects hidden together and not found within a defined architectural feature. E.g. For a group of projectile points found in a niche – the niche would take precedence.)
    • Unspecified
  • Shape: Data Type=controlled vocab (i.e. “T-shape” for Doorways) Check only one
    • Square
    • Rectangle
    • T-Shaped
    • Oval
    • Amorphous
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Maximum width measurement: (In cases, as in a T-shaped Doorway, when we have two measurements. The minimum width will have been entered at the general feature table level, the maximum width will be entered here).
  • Distance above floor: (number) – in meters with two decimal points
  • Distance below ceiling: (number) – in meters with two decimal points
  • Contents: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified
  • Modified: Drop-down List =
    • No
    • Yes – Unspecified
    • To a Doorway
    • From a Doorway
    • To a Vent
    • From a Vent
    • To a Niche
    • From a Niche
    • To – Other
    • From – Other
  • Lintel Type: Drop-down List = (Check only one)
    • Wood
    • Masonry
    • Wood and Masonry
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • Sill: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified
  • Door Closure: Drop-down List = (Check only one)
    • No
    • Yes – Unspecified
    • Slab
    • Mat
    • Other
    • Unspecified
  • # of Wood Lintels: (number)
  • Jamb: Drop-down List = 0/1/2/Unspecified
  • Sealed: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified “Sealed” here means that this wall feature was blocked intentionally prehistorically. If information is conflicting (one source says door was blocked with masonry, one says it was open), use “Unspecified” here and put those details in the “General/CDI Notes” field.
  • Filled: Drop-down List = Y/N/Unspecified “Filled” here means that this wall feature is filled with debris or room fill unintentionally, or as the unintentional consequence of trash dumping. If information is conflicting (one source says door was filled, one says it was not), use “Unspecified” here and put those details in the “General/CRA Notes” field.
  • Created By: (CRA Person)
  • Date/Time Stamp/Last Modified By: (CRA Person)
  • General/CRA Notes:

♦ WALL SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS:

These tables capture wall surface characteristics for square rooms and round rooms. NOTE: Evidence for burning on individual walls will be recorded here. Evidence for room-wide burning will be recorded at the Square Room/Round Room level.