Data from The Early Bronze 2 in the Aegean

by Michael B. Cosmopoulos, University of Manitoba

The seven data tables available here contain information about the artifacts that were used for an analytic study of the artifactual assemblages of EB 2 Aegean sites (mainland Greece, the Cyclades, Crete, and the East Aegean); these data tables were published in Michael B. Cosmopoulos, The Early Bronze 2 in the Aegean, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 98, Jonsered 1991). The seven tables contain information about metal, ivory, stone, bone, and clay artifacts as well as figurines and seals. The author made them available in Lotus 1-2-3 (.WK4) format at the University of Manitoba (http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/classics/BronzeAge2.html)

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The seven tables are available here for downloading in ASCII and .DBF format. All files have been compressed and will be transmitted in .ZIP format. You may have to uncompress them; your browser may uncompress them automatically. The ASCII files have an extra record at the beginning of each. That record contains the names of the data fields; however, the figurines and ivory tables have no labels for the first column. In those cases, the first column contains simple sequence numbers. Items enclosed in quotation marks in the published tables will be surrounded by asterisks in the data tables here, because asterisks present fewer problems with file conversion. Many of the originally published (and downloadable Lotus 1-2-3) tables have a column called Ref2, since there were often two reference entries, each containing a portion of a single reference. The two columns (and any two-column references) have been combined in all the ASCII and DBF files vailable here. The .DBF files have some truncated field names (not data entries), because of the limits imposed by the format. Otherwise, every effort has been made to make the tables conform to the published versions. Please inform the Archaeological Data Archive of any discrepancies.

These tables are incomplete, as are all archaeological collections. New finds will surface; new information will arise, and new analyses will be performed. Professor Cosmopoulos and the ADAP personnel wish to encourage the addition of new information, while maintaining the integrity of individual data sources; so we ask for your cooperation. Please inform Professor Cosmopoulos or the ADAP of additions so that new information can be added - not to the original data tables but to the total data available - to keep this resource from going out of date. To add information, please contact Michael B. Cosmopoulos (c/o Department of Classics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada - cosmopo@cc.UManitoba.ca), or the Archaeological Data Archive Project, (c/o Center for the Study of Architecture, P.O. Box 60, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 - director@csanet.org).

Note that some non-ASCII characters appear in various fields within these files, in particular diacritical marks in non-English words and proper names (Süfland, Dörpfeld, etc.). Those characters may not exist in the fonts available to your data base software, and consequently their representations in your fonts may appear strange. - ADAP staff.

For ASCII files:

1. download bone file
(compressed file: BONEASC.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Bone.txt) - 547 records, including first record with field names

2. download clay file
(compressed file: CLAYASC.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Clay. txt) 1021 records, including first record with field names

3. download figurines file
(compressed file: FIGSASC.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Figs. txt) - 320 records, including first record with field names

4. download ivory file
(compressed file: IVORYASC.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Ivory. txt) - 33 records, including first record with field names

5. download metals file
(compressed file: METALASC.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Metal. txt) - 1106 records, including first record with field names and second record with other information concerning references

6. download seals file
(compressed file: SEALSASC.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Seals. txt) - 121 records, including first record with field names

7. download stone file
(compressed file: STONEASC.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Stone. txt) - 1610 records, including first record with field names

For .DBF files:

8. download bone file
(compressed file: BONEDBF.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Bone.dbf) - 546 records

9. download clay file
(compressed file: CLAYDBF.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Clay.dbf) - 1020 records

10. download figurines file
(compressed file: FIGSDBF.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Figs.dbf) - 319 records

11. download ivory file
(compressed file: IVORYDBF.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Ivory.dbf) - 32 records

12. download metals file
(compressed file: METALDBF.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Metal.dbf) - 1105 records, including first record with information concerning references

13. download seals file
(compressed file: SEALSDBF.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Seals.dbf) - 120 records

14. download stone file
(compressed file: STONEDBF.ZIP; uncompressed file: EB2Stone.dbf) - 1609 records

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Title: Early Bronze 2 Artifact Databases, from Michael B. Cosmopoulos, The Early Bronze 2 in the Aegean, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 98, Jonsered 1991)
File name: eb2.html
Author: Michael B. Cosmopoulos, Department of Classics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada (e-mail: cosmopo@cc.UManitoba.ca)
Revision history: This is the first electronic version of this document and the associated data tables, but all are based on the paper publication and should not change. Any corrections to make the electronic version(s) correspond to the printed one(s) will be noted here. Date of posting: May, 1996. This document modified to explain labels in ascii files and to make more clear the use of two columns for reference information in the originally published tables: October, 1997
Review process: The original publication was subjected to prior peer review.
Internet access: This document and the associated data tables are maintained at www.csanet.org by CSA and its Director, Harrison Eiteljorg, II. Note that there may be changes in computer addresses that are beyond the control of CSA.
Long-term availability: This document and the associated data tables and/or its (their) successors will be maintained for electronic access until such time as the ready availability is deemed unnecessary. When they are no longer directly accessible, they will remain in the ADAP archive permanently.
Citation permissions and copyright information: This document and the associated data tables are copyrighted by the author. Citations of the electronic versions should include the date of the document cited. The documents may not be reproduced without the explicit permission of the author.