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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 29.
Published in final edited form as: Am Antiq. 2016 Jan;81(1):74–96. doi: 10.7183/0002-7316.81.1.74

Table 1.

Temporal and functional classification of components in the Village Ecodynamics Project database.

Function Paleoindian Archaic through
Basketmaker II
Ancestral
Pueblo (600–
1280 CE)
Numic /
Navajo
Historic Unknown Not Recorded Total

Not recorded 22 310   2476 223 479   748 1653   5911
Indeterminate   1   13     908   11   104   110   1147
Isolated Find   1     2       19     1     1     18     12       54
Artifact Scatter   2   64     695     4     2     17     66     850
Ceremonial Site     1       34     4     5       3       1       48
Plaza     2 see Centersa         2
Clay quarry         2       1         3
Field house 1     664     20     685
Kiln     435       6     441
Limited activity 1   17     700     8   31     80   205   1042
Reservoir       25     7       2       3       37
Rock art     2       50     2     11     13       78
Stone quarry     1       15     1     11     36       64
Storage     4     340     1     1     26       2     374
Water control     348     5     18     13     384
Single habitation   17   4124   16     82   4239
Multiple habitation     5   1953     2     9     16   1985
Indeterminate habitation   12   1568     2     82   1664
Community Center     172     172
Total 28 450 14528 245 570 1038 2321 19180
a

Plazas are likely underrepresented in the database for ancestral Pueblo components as a component functional classification. They would likely occur as architectural attributes of larger Community Centers.