Archaeological data from the 1955 excavation in Haristoy-Oxocelhaya cave by Georges Laplace, José Miguel de Barandiáran, and Pierre Boucher

<p>This table includes data from Georges Laplace's field booknotes about the excavation he carried out in 1955-1956 with Jos&eacute; Miguel de Barandi&aacute;ran and Pierre Boucher&nbsp; at the Haristoy-Oxocelhaya cave (Isturits and Saint-Martin-d'Arberoue, France).</p> <h2>Variables</h2> <ul> <li><em>id</em>: unique identifier attributed by the transcriber</li> <li><em>square_y</em>: label of the square on the Y axis</li> <li><em>square_x</em>: label of the square on the X axis</li> <li><em>layer</em>: layer as given in the notebook</li> <li>layer.<em>deduced</em>: layer deduced when not given in the notebook (assuming that the lines bellow a line with a layer information are about the same layer)</li> <li><em>n</em>: object's identifying number attributed by Laplace (objects are numbered by grid square)</li> <li><em>zmin</em>: minimal depth</li> <li><em>zmax</em>: maximal depth (if applicable)</li> <li><em>xmin</em>: minimal X coordinate in the square</li> <li><em>xmax</em>: maximal X coordinate in the square (if applicable)</li> <li><em>ymin</em>: minimal Y coordinate in the square</li> <li><em>ymax</em>: maximal&nbsp;Y coordinate in the square (if applicable)</li> <li><em>object_type</em>: remain category</li> <li><em>object_lithic-type</em>: type of lithic implement</li> <li><em>object_lithic-material</em>: lithic raw material</li> <li><em>object_anatomy</em>: anatomical part, for faunal remains</li> <li><em>object_fauna-order</em>: taxonomic order, for faunal remains</li> <li><em>object_fauna-genus</em>: taxonomic genus, for faunal remains</li> <li><em>object_decription</em>: the description given in the excavation notebook</li> <li><em>bloc_dimensions</em>: dimensions for stone blocks</li> <li><em>note_laplace</em>:&nbsp; note by Laplace as written in the notebook</li> <li><em>note</em>: note by the transcriber</li> </ul> <h2>About stone blocks dimension</h2> <p>Stone blocks are written as &ldquo;B10.20.20&rdquo; or as &ldquo;B10&rdquo;. This information was recorded in the &ldquo;bloc_dimensions&rdquo; columns and the &ldquo;object_type&rdquo; column was filled&nbsp;with a &ldquo;bloc&rdquo; or &ldquo;bloc stalagmit&eacute;&rdquo; value.</p> <ul> <li>About the first form, the three numerical values are interpreted as the dimensions of the block in centimeters and are noted with separating dots in the &ldquo;bloc_dimensions&rdquo; column. E.g. &ldquo;B10.20.20&rdquo; is recorded as &ldquo;10.20.20&rdquo;.</li> <li>The second form is interpreted as referring to cubic blocs, only one value is useful. This value was copied in the &ldquo;bloc_dimensions&rdquo; column. E.g. &ldquo;B10&rdquo; is recorded&nbsp; &ldquo; 10&rdquo;. The two other lengths can be deduced when processing the dataset.</li> </ul> <h2>Line multiplication</h2> <p>Generally speaking, one line in the notebook corresponds to one object. This is sometimes not the case, when two objects are noted with a &ldquo;+&rdquo; sign (e.g. &ldquo;B10 + fo&rdquo;) or when a multiplier is applied to the description of an object (e.g. &ldquo;7 B10&rdquo;, for seven blocks of size 10).&nbsp;<br>In this case, a line in the table was created for each object and, if the line contained an object number, this number was copied in each new line in the &ldquo;n&rdquo; column.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>