The PASH Data Collection is comprised of Five data “realms”: 1) Survey and site data, 2) Settlement excavations, 3) Tumulus (burial mound) survey and excavations, 4) Artifact analysis, and 5) Geological data. All databases, field notebooks, paper maps, GIS files, photographs, and photo descriptions related to the intensive survey, of tracts and tumuli, and the collection of sites have been made available in PASH Deep Blue Data Realm 1 (this sub-collection)., Over the course of five years, 11 field teams (Teams A–K) surveyed 2530 tracts in Shkrel and Shtoj, covering 16.1 km2. Survey data were eventually collapsed into six geographic zones (1–6). All tracts were surveyed using standard Mediterranean survey methods. For each tract (recorded consecutively by team letter and a number, e.g. A-001, A-002, etc.), surveyors walked at 15-m intervals and counted all tile/brick, ceramic fragments, and small finds. We conducted a full-coverage survey, meaning that all land forms—including fields, hills, and terraces—in each survey zone were surveyed, unless the landowner objected or the vegetation was so dense as to render survey impossible. Each tract was photographed and a GPS point at the center of the tract was obtained. Photos and photo descriptions were maintained in separate databases by each team. Information about tracts was recorded by hand in notebooks by team leaders. This included data about a tract’s soil, geology, ground cover (plants growing in the tract, crops planted in the field), associated structures, associated archaeological features (including tumuli), informant testimony, visibility, and, most critically, artifact counts. , and Realm 1 is divided into two sub-collections: Survey Data and Site Data. Both sub-collections are organized by data type. Survey data includes Tract photos and Photologs, Survey maps, Spatial data files, and a Collection Unit (CU) survey database. Site Data includes the Site database, Site documentation, Site photos and Photologs, and Spatial data files.
All databases, field notebooks, paper maps, GIS files, photographs, and photo descriptions related to the intensive survey, of tracts and tumuli, and the collection of sites have been made available in PASH Deep Blue Data Realm 1. The data are broadly organized by team (A-K). The surveyed land was divided up into “tracts”. Tracts are labeled with team letter and a consecutive number: e.g., A-001, A-002, B-003, C-122, D-035.
This sub-collection includes Photographs and Photologs of the sites, a Site Database with information collected and observed about the site and Site documentation. Documentation consists of PDFs of scans of miscellaneous documents related to a particular site, including maps, wall drawings, original notes, etc. Data are organized according to site number: S001, S002, etc. There are 17 sites in total.
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.
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.
