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DartPoints: 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)

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.

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.

References

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)