Five dart point types from Fort Hood, Texas, U.S.A.

Description

Metric and categorical measurements on 91 Archaic dart points recovered during surface surveys at Fort Hood, Texas representing five types.

Usage

data(DartPoints)

Format

A data frame with 91 observations on the following 17 variables.

Name

Dart point type: Darl, Ensor, Pedernales, Travis, Wells

Catalog

Fort Hood catalog number

TARL

Texas Archeological Research Laboratory site number

Quad

Fort Hood Quad

Length

Maximum Length (mm)

Width

Maximum Width (mm)

Thickness

Maxmimum Thickness (mm)

B.Width

Basal width (mm)

J.Width

Juncture width (mm)

H.Length

Haft element length (mm)

Weight

Weight (gm)

Blade.Sh

Blade shape: E - Excurvate, I - Incurvate, R - Recurvate, S - Straight

Base.Sh

Base shape: E - Excurvate, I - Incurvate, R - Recurvate, S - Straight

Should.Sh

Shoulder shape: E - Excurvate, I - Incurvate, S - Straight, X - None

Should.Or

Shoulder orientation: B - Barbed, H - Horizontal, T - Tapered, X - None

Haft.Sh

Shape lateral haft element A - Angular, E - Excurvate, I - Incurvate, R - Recurvate, S - Straight

Haft.Or

Orientation lateral haft element: C - Concave, E - Expanding, P - Parallel, T - Contracting, V - Convex

Details

Measurements on five types of dart points from Fort Hood in central Texas (Darl, Ensor, Pedernales, Travis, and Wells). The points were recovered during 10 different pedestrian survey projects during the 1980's and were classified and measured by H. Blaine Ensor using the system created by Futato (1983) as described in Carlson, S., et al 1987, pp 51-70 and Appendices 4 and 7.

Source

Fort Hood Projectile Points. Electronic database compiling the results of multiple surface surveys at Fort Hood in the possession of David L. Carlson, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. The artifacts are curated at Fort Hood, TX by the Cultural Resources Branch of the Directorate of Public Works.

References

Carlson, David L. 2017. Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R. Cambridge University Press, pp 52-60, 99-103, 106-107, 109-115, 148-157, 182-185, 198-211.

Carlson, S. B., H. B. Ensor, D. L. Carlson, E. A. Miller, and D E. Young. 1987. Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas Fiscal Year 1984. United States Army Fort Hood. Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report Number 14.

Futato, E. M. 1983. Projectile Point Morphology: Steps Toward a Formal Account. in Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lafayette, Louisiana, October 27-19, 1977. Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Bulletin 21: 38–81.

Examples

data(DartPoints)
boxplot(Length~Name, DartPoints)
plot(Width~Length, DartPoints, pch=as.numeric(Name), main="FOrt Hood Dart Points")
legend("topleft", levels(DartPoints$Name), pch=1:5)