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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Archaeol Method Theory. 2014 Dec 28;23(1):95–126. doi: 10.1007/s10816-014-9227-6

Table 4.

Areas and estimated rooms for house mounds at Cuyamungue.

Mound Area Surface
Area
(m2)
Number
of
Stories
Total
estimated
rooms*

1 2 1391 2 174
2 2 582 2 73
3 2 580 2 73
4 4 1489 2 186
5 4 975 2 122
6 3 97 1 8
7 3 122 1 10
8 3 95 1 8
9 3 213 1 18
10 1 86 1 7
11 1 1096 1 91
12 1 20 1 2
13 5 2733 1 228
14 2 324 1 27
*

Note: Excavations in Mound 5 determined that 80 ground floor rooms existed within this area, thus leading to a conversion of 12.18m2 of mound surface area per room. In addition, for two-story mounds, RT=R1+.5R1, where RT=totalrooms and R1=1ststoryrooms.