Each tract has a photo, a few have associated feature photos. Each photo is labelled with the date it was taken, and a consecutive number: ex. “A-150610-001”. Photos are in folders by team, and by date: Team A (362 megs), Team B (963 megs), Team C (638 megs), Team D (1.45 GB), Team E ( 1.41 GB), Team F (619 megs), Team G (461 megs), Team H (233 megs), Team I (817 megs), Team J (903 megs), and Team K (226 megs). Each folder is accompanied by an Excel photo log, exported to CSV, that provides captions.
PDF of scans of the original tract maps drawn in the field by each team leader. These were digitized each night to create shape files for each tract in the PASH Geographic Information System (GIS).
GIS shape files for each tract along with additional, generic spatial data, including files for tract visibility, vegetation, overall pottery density, and overall tile density. The latter two are not chronologically specific; they include all pottery and tile counts by tract, regardless of age.
PDFs of the reports written by survey team leaders at the end of the season, including the report as submitted and a final edited version. There are two reports for each team. [NOTE: in some cases, only the final edited version of a report is included.]
CU (survey) database – The full CU (Collection Unit, i.e. “tract”) database, which includes all tract-survey data from all teams together in one place. This file is a .CSV export from FileMaker. Each entry includes data about each tract surveyed (see data dictionary). Tract locations are available via accompanying GIS shape files. NOTE: some tract database entries lack complete location data, e.g., a UTM Northing is present but not the Easting. These are available via the spatial data files work: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/concern/data_sets/k0698807d?locale=en. and CU (survey) database, by team – A copy of each team’s (A-K) Collection Unit (CU; i.e. “tract”) database is also included. These files are .CSV exports from the original FileMaker database.
A folder with photos taken of each site. These are JPEGS. Some photographs (e.g., S004) are labelled with site number, date taken, and an appended ID number in consecutive order (e.g., S001-060610-001 = Site 001, June 6, 2010, Photo 001 from Kratul i Madh). Others are labeled generically. ID numbers were repeated at each subsequent site surveyed, beginning again with 001. Some site photos are accompanied by a photolog, while others are not. The photolog typically lists each photo taken of a site in order by photo number, with a description.
This work is composed of PDFs of scans of miscellaneous documents related to a particular site, including maps, wall drawings, original notes, etc. For those sites that were systematically surface collected (Sites 001, 002, 003, and 011), scans of the site collection grid and raw counts of collected artifacts (on a “Site Collection Form”) are also included.
The data presented here were collected in the course of archaeological survey and excavation in the region of Shkodër in northern Albania, carried out between 2010 and 2014, with a follow-up visit in 2016. The Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH) was co-directed by Michael L. Galaty (University of Michigan) and Lorenc Bejko (University of Tirana) and was sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF BCS1220016), The University of Tirana, Millsaps College, Mississippi State University, and the University of Michigan. The data presented here accompany a two-volume research report, published by the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Press (Galaty and Bejko 2023) - Volume 1 ( https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12201317) and Volume 2 ( https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12208577)., The county (Alb. qarqe) of Shkodër is located in northern Albania. It is bordered to the south by the Adriatic Sea and to the northwest by the country of Montenegro. The counties of Lezhë and Kukës are situated to the south and east, respectively. Shkodër Lake is situated along the border with Montenegro. It is the largest freshwater lake in the Balkans. The city of Shkodër is the fifth largest in Albania. It was founded in the Bronze Age and became a Roman colony in 168 BC, following the Illyrian Wars. Several major rivers intersect at Shkodër, including the Buna, which exits Shkodër Lake, the Drin, and the Kir. The latter two rivers flow from the Bjeshkët e Nemuna, the Albanian Alps, and provide access across the mountains, to the Balkan interior, including metal-rich Kosovo. Several very important ancient sites are located to the south of Shkodër, close to the Adriatic coast: Lezhë (ancient Lissus), Apollonia, and Durrës (ancient Epidamnus, Dyrrachium under the Romans). The latter two cities were Greek colonies, founded during the Archaic period. All three became Roman colonies., and PASH was designed to investigate shifts, through time, in Shkodër towards increased social stratification and hierarchy. These shifts commenced during prehistory and are marked by two dramatic changes in the regional landscape: new settlement in defensible “hillforts” and burial in rock and earth mounds. We wondered what factors – environment, settlement, status, conflict, subsistence, trade, migration – might have allowed or encouraged these changes.