Catalog sheets provide detailed descriptions of specific artifacts recovered from particular collection units (lots). The lot number is recorded on each catalog sheet. Beginning in the 1990s, we began describing the pastes of ceramic, non-pottery objects using a series of categories designated by letters. These are described in the folder entitled “PVN and PVC CAT Paste Descriptions” that can be found in the Analysis Sheets partition of the collection. While the pastes were originally defined based on our study of artifacts from the Naco valley, the classification was extended to include examples from the lower Cacaulapa valley. The descriptions provided on catalog sheets are accompanied by drawings when the item is sufficiently large or well enough preserved to warrant including such an illustration.
For guidance on how to search for a particular kind of artifact, see the guide to navigating the collection. The following abbreviations are used to describe the different types of artifacts in the collection:
- ANTWRKD – Worked antler
- BDS – Beads
- BJART – Bajareque artifacts, some vitrified bajareque (wattle and daub fragment)
- BONE - Bone fragments and tools
- BRKBTR - Bark beater (stone artifact used to beat and soften bark as material for paper and clothes)
- CAND - Candelero (ceramic artifact with one or more chambers in which smoldering fires were maintained)
- CHST: Chipped stone
- CLYBAL - Ceramic or clay ball
- CNCMP - Complex censer lid (top of a cylindrical ceramic incense burner)
- CNCMPB - Complex censer bowl (bottom part of a cylindrical ceramic incense burner)
- CNCMPS - Complex censer support (support for censer lid and bowl)
- CNCMPBMDL – Complex censer bowl with modeled elements
- CNLP (or CNCMPS) - Censer prong (cylindrically shaped ceramic object tapering to a point that projected from the top on a complex incense burner)
- CNMDL - Ceramic modeled incense burner (pottery container decorated through the addition or shaping of clay on its exterior)
- CNSPK (or SPKCN) - Spiked Censer.
- DNUTS (or GSDNUTS) - Donut stone (rock with a hole drilled in it).
- ECO: Ecofacts, floral or faunal remains.
- ECOB – Obsidian eccentric
- ECTC – Insect housing
- EFLR - Earspool
- ENIG (or ENIGBC) - Enigmatic baked clay.
- ENIGST (or GSENIG) - Enigmatic ground stone.
- FLT - Flute
- FWO - Ceramic figurine, whistle, or ocarina. It was often difficult to separate members of these categories from their fragmentary remains. We, therefore, included all such pieces under this heading, distinguishing among them on the catalog sheets when there was sufficient information to do so.
- GSB – Ground stone ball
- GSUV: Vesicular basalt, ground stone, uncertain artifact status
- HACHA (or GSHACHA) - Hacha (celt).
- HMRST - Hammerstone
- JWLRY - Jewelry
- LCSH - Ladle censer strap handle
- LCTH – Ladle censer tube handle
- LWTS – Ceramic net or loom weights
- MANO (or GSMANO) - Mano (stones used to grind materials atop a metate [MTE]).
- MANOR: Incomplete mano; roughout that was never completed. Some examples are included under MANO.
- MBLV-Marble vessel
- MDRNP - Modern piece of melted plastic
- MDRNRT - Modern ceramic roof tile
- MINVES – Fragment of a small, or mini, ceramic vessel
- MLDBWO – Bowl mold
- MLDFWO – Figurine, whistle, or ocarina mold
- MODPOT – Historic era pottery
- MRTPST – Ground stone mortar or pestle
- MTE (or GSMTE) - Metate (surface of a grinding stone).
- MTER (or METR): Metate rough-out; a metate that was never completed. Some examples are included under MTE.
- OSTN – Ground stone
- PEND - Pendent
- PIGST - Pigment stone. These are soft rocks, usually yellow or red, that we infer might have been used in making paint.
- PLCN (or LC)- Pierced ladle censer (ceramic bowl with holes cut completely through its base).
- POLST (or GSPOLST)- Smoother/Polisher (a stone, purposely shaped or not, with clear signs of smoothing due to human use on one or more of its facets).
- PRPT- Stone projectile point
- PTSTD (or PTSTND or VSM) – Potstand. These are ceramic supports, many of which were used to support vessels during the shaping and firing process.
- RSTA – Bone rasp (possible musical instrument) and stone abrader. These different types of artifacts are distinguished on their respective catalog sheets.
- SCNL - Scored censer lid (shallow ceramic plate with lines incised on its convex side; often shows evidence of smudging from prolonged exposure to smoke on that side)
- SCULP – Stone sculpture
- SHDSK - Sherd disk
- SHELL - Marine shell
- SPNWHL (or SPWL)- Spindle whorl.
- STBL - Ball stone
- STBWLS – Stone bowl
- STMP - Stamp (ceramic artifact with a deeply engraved design on one side; likely used to apply pigment in that design to skin or cloth)
- STNDSK- Stone Disk
- UHSD - Used sherd. A ceramic fragment with signs of being worn down on one or more edges due to use.
- UNWRKDR – Stone of uncertain function, possibly worked.
- USCNL – Unscored censer lid.
- VES – Whole ceramic vessel or large fragment of a container.
- WKDS (or WKSHD) - Worked sherd
- WKST (or GSUV) - Worked stone.
Submissions from 1988
PVN CAT 11E-079-002 CAND, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 11E-080-003 PLCN, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 12B-032-001 LCSH, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 12F-002-001 CAND, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 13A-003-008 SCNL, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 13A-018-007 SCNL, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 13A-074-001 PLCN, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 13A-089-001 CAND, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 13A-097-001 CNLP, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 15A-071-001 LCSH, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 16A-026-001 FWO, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 18A-029-001 FWO, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 9G-001-001 CNLP, Patricia Urban
PVN CAT 13A-008-005 SCNL, Patricia A. Urban and Quique Posas
PVN Ceramic Analyses Op 17, Patricia Urban, Marne Ausec, Edward Schortman, et al.
PVN Ceramic Analyses Op 13, Patricia Urban, Marne Ausec, Edward Schortman, et al.
PVN CAT 13A-003-022 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posa
PVN-CAST-23B-014-002 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 10B-001-001 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 10I-005-002 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 10I-013-005 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 10L-001-002 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 10L-017-001 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 10L-017-005 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 10L-020-001 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11B-004-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11B-016-002 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11C-014-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11C-033-001 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11C-033-002 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-002-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-002-003 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-005-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-005-010 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-006 FWO_001, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-007 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-012-002 FWO 03, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-014-001 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-017-005 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-019-002 CNMDL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-019-006 EFLR, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-020-001 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-020-002 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-022-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-027 CAND 02, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-027 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-028-001 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-028-002 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-039-002 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-039-003 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-043-001 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-051-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-057-020 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-061-001 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-062-003 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-062-005 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-062-009 SCLN, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-067-002 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-071-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-074-002 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-086 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-092-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-097-001 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-097-001 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-101-002 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11D-105-001 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-003-001 EFLR, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-003-003 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-007-003 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-012-001 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-015-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-015-002 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-017-003 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-028-004 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-029-005 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-035-001 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-035-002 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-048-001 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-048-001 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-048-008 SCNL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-048-013 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-003 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-017 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-021 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-022 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-030 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-049 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-050 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-051 CNMDL, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-051 FWO, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-055 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-056 CAND, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-059 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-061 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-063 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-064 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-065 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-066 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-067 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas
PVN CAT 11E-050-068 CNLP, Patricia Urban and Quique Posas