An atlas of paste fabrics and supplemental paste compositional data from late middle preclassic-period ceramics at the Maya site of Holtun, Guatemala

Michael G Callaghan; Daniel Pierce; Brigitte Kovacevich; Michael D Glascock

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2017.03.024

An atlas of paste fabrics and supplemental paste compositional data from late middle preclassic-period ceramics at the Maya site of Holtun, Guatemala

Data Brief. 2017 Mar 19:12:55-67. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.03.024. eCollection 2017 Jun.

Authors

Michael G Callaghan¹, Daniel Pierce², Brigitte Kovacevich¹, Michael D Glascock²

Affiliations

¹ University of Central Florida, USA.
² Research Reactor, University of Missouri, USA.

Abstract

This data article contains an atlas of paste fabrics and supplemental paste compositional data generated from Late Middle Preclassic-period ceramics at the Maya site of Holtun, Guatemala. The data include maps showing locations of archeological contexts, excavation profiles, photographs and photomicrographs of sherds and paste fabrics, and compositional data produced by Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) at the Research Reactor, University of Missouri (MURR). The NAA data include a biplot and table of canonical discriminant analyses, Mahalonobis distance calculations, and Euclidian distance searches between the samples.

Keywords: Archeology; Ceramics; Craft production; Maya; Microscopy; Middle Preclassic; Neutron Activation Analysis.