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 1985
PSB CAT 347H-004-003 MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 351A-002-004 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 351A-003-001 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 3E-006-001 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 3E-008-001 MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 3F-003-001 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 3F-004-002 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB-CAT 3F-013-002 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 3G MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 3I-005-001-MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 3L-001-001 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 500A-001-002 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 500F-001-001 MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 500F-001-002 MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 500F-001-003 MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 500G-001-005 WKST, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 500H-001-002 MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 503A-001-001 WKST, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 503C-001-004 MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 504A-001-001 WKST, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 504A-001-002 MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 504A-001-003 WKST, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 504F-002-001 WKST, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 506A-001-001 WKST, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 7D-005-001 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 98E-002-001 MANO, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 98E-002-002 MTE, Thomas Melchionne
PSB CAT 103E-006-001 MANO, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 103J-001-001 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 104C-001-001 MANO, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106C-017-003 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106C-020-004a MANO, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106C-020-004b MANO, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106C-020-004c MANO, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106D-004-002 MANO, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106G-001-002 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106L-005-001 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106O-010-001 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106R-001-001 CNCMPBMDL, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106R-001-002 CNCMPBMDL, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 106U-001-002 MANO, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 150B-002-002 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 150J-002-002 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 308B-033-002 Hacha, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 320D-002-001 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 320D-002-002-MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 328A-002-001 Obsidian Core, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 341A-003-001 MANO, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 351A-002-003 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 3E-011-002 CNSPK, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 3O-002-002 PLCN, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 500F-001-004 MTE, Victoria Paine
PSB CAT 116B-002-001 Pestle Structure 3, Brenda Ratini
PSB CAT 150J-006-002-MTE, Brenda Ratini
PSB CAT 22B-016-001-MANO, Brenda Ratini
PSB CAT 300B-003-001 MANO, Brenda Ratini
PSB CAT 320D-001-011 PLCN, Brenda Ratini
PSB CAT 347H-002-024 SCNL, Edward schortman
PSB CAT 347H-006-021 Unscored Censer Lid, Edward schortman
PSB CAT 347H-005-021 PLCN, Edward Mark Schortman
PSB CAT 3K-007-021 LCSH, Edward Mark Schortman
PSB Yamala MTE, Edward Mark Schortman
PSB CAT 100C-007-001 LCTH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 100C-009-002 SCNL, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 103D-002-001 LCSH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 104D-001-001 PLCN, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 104D-001-001 PLCN_001, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106-009-001 CNSPK, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106C-014-009 LCSH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106C-034-002 LCSH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106C-034-005 CNCMPBMDL, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106C-035-001 PLCN, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106C-036-002 PLCN, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106C-039-003 LCSH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106CC-017-001 PLCN, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106F-006-003 LCSH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106F-006 CNCMPBMDL, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106G-001-003 LCSH 02, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106G-001-004 and 006 LCSH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106G-001-005 LCSH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106G-001-007 PLCN, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106G-005-001 LCTH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106J-001-004 CAND, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106L-005-002 CNSPK, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106L-006-002 CAND, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106N-001-001 SCNL, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106N-011-001 SCNL, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106O-010-003 PLCN, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106P-001-001 CAND, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106Q-002-002 CNSPK, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106Q-002-003 Unscored Censer Lid, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106Q-002-004 SCNL, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106Q-002-005 PLCN, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106Q-002-011 LCSH, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106Q-002-012 CNCMPBMDL, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106Q-003-009 CNSPK, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106T-001-004 CNLP, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106W-003-002 CNSPK, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 106W-014-001 CNCMPS, Colleen Siders
PSB CAT 114C-002-003 LCSH, Colleen Siders