Site Form | Site Function | Intrasite Context | Deposit Type | Screen Size | Screen Fraction |
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architectural complex | ceremonial site (e.g. non-residential, isolated cemetery) | building substructure (not earlier occupation; e.g. mound or platform construction) | overburden | size inches or mm | % screened (0% for unscreened) |
artifact scatter (likely not from a settlement or isolated feature) | resource extraction/animal husbandry (e.g., canal, field or field house, quarry) | extramural (e.g. plaza in an open area or compound, roasting pit, canal, borrow pit) | feature contents (e.g hearth, burial, roasting pit contents ) | flotation cloth | unknown screened fraction |
isolated feature/structure (e.g., field house) | settlement (e.g., hamlet, village, town, city) [unknown presence of ceremonial structures] | intramural-domestic (e.g., pithouse, pueblo,ramada, including an atrium within a house) | trash | screened but unknown screen size |
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rockshelter/cave | --- settlement with ceremonial structures | intramural unknown (not recorded or can't tell if domestic or non-domestic) | construction fill (e.g., platform mound construction fill) | unscreened (hand recovery) |
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unknown | --- settlement without ceremonial structures | non-domestic structure (e.g. kiva, ballcourt, temple, palace, stairway, causeway) | occupation surface (on, in, or near) (roof as surface?) | unknown |
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| short-term encampment (seasonal or shorter) | other intrasite context (discouraged) | other fill (aeolian, architectural collapse) |
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| other (discouraged) | unknown intrasite context (e.g. trench or test pit in deposits with mixed, unrecorded, or otherwise unknown whether intra-or extramural) | mixed/disturbed deposit |
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| unknown (unrecorded, uncategorized legacy data) |
| other deposit type (discouraged) |
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| unknown deposit type |
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