The archaeological site has over 4 million lithic (stone tool artifact) remains from 1 occupation level, so individual proveniencing is impossible. Instead, the lithics from each 1x1m unit, were put into a single bag. I have analyzed 100,000 of these lithics from a section of the site, and each one of those lithics have 7 corresponding features. So far everything has been recorded only on paper since I am unsure how to continue.
1) I want to incorporate this lithic analysis data onto an already existing vector based recreation of the site. I will use this to create density maps of different lithic characteristics (by size, type, retouch, completeness, etc.) and if possible do some Exploratory Data Analysis. I am a relatively new student of GIS, and honestly am not sure how to go from my hand written recordings of the lithic data to a spatially referenced and manipulable layer(?).
2) A major part of this project will be to create a workable database of the information transcribed from paper notes. I have 100,000 lithics (with 7 attribute data points each) that are spatially grouped into 1x1m units (~5,000 lithics/unit average). For the actual mapping of this information I understand that I will most likely have to group all related lithics within the same unit together (through pivot tables I think) but is there a way/is there any benefit to individually record all 100,000 lithics as their own feature with its own attribute data, while allowing me still use this information like explained in #1 above?
I know I am asking a lot and some of it is probably very basic, but my university is lacking in GIS.
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1) I want to incorporate this lithic analysis data onto an already existing vector based recreation of the site. I will use this to create density maps of different lithic characteristics (by size, type, retouch, completeness, etc.) and if possible do some Exploratory Data Analysis. I am a relatively new student of GIS, and honestly am not sure how to go from my hand written recordings of the lithic data to a spatially referenced and manipulable layer(?).
2) A major part of this project will be to create a workable database of the information transcribed from paper notes. I have 100,000 lithics (with 7 attribute data points each) that are spatially grouped into 1x1m units (~5,000 lithics/unit average). For the actual mapping of this information I understand that I will most likely have to group all related lithics within the same unit together (through pivot tables I think) but is there a way/is there any benefit to individually record all 100,000 lithics as their own feature with its own attribute data, while allowing me still use this information like explained in #1 above?
I know I am asking a lot and some of it is probably very basic, but my university is lacking in GIS.
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