Select the general morphology of the projectile point before in-putting values for variables for projectile point identification. [Corner-Notched, Side-Notched, Stemmed or Triangular/Lanceolate]

Lithic material type and Provenience variables must be specified only if saving an identified projectile point to a data file. After selecting (SAVE RESULT) off of the Point Identification Screen, Input the specified Provenance variables on the Provenience Screen.

After selecting (SAVE) off of the Provenience Screen, Input the desired file name or a new file name to save the identified projectile point information to disk.

Twenty-one Variables are recorded for each identified projectile point. The first five Variables record provenience and material type. The other nineteen Variables record the morphological attributes input or calculated from the information used to identify the projectile point. The variables are arranged on three lines of data in standard ASCII text format and can be edited with any text editor. The three-line record for every projectile point consists of the following variables of the specified data types:

Line 1:	Site Number AS STRING * 10 Inv # AS STRING * 6 Unit AS STRING * 8 Depth AS INTEGER Material AS STRING * 15	==> site name or number ==> inventory number ==> unit ==> depth (or Ending depth of level) ==> lithic material type
Line 2:	Point Type AS STRING * 28 Point Form AS STRING * 15 Point Date AS STRING * 20	==> point type ==> general morphology ==> date range of point type
Line 3:	Deviation AS INTEGER Length AS SINGLE Width AS SINGLE	==> number of avg. standard deviations from mean type ==> lgn lgn lgn lgn ==> wdt wdt wid wid

	Corner	Side	Stemmed	Triangle
Base Length AS SINGLE	blgn	blgn	slgn	baCon
Base Width AS SINGLE	bwdt	bwdt	swdt	-
Notch AS SINGLE	notch	notch	-	-
Base Ratio AS SINGLE	baRatio	baRatio	stRatio	baConRatio
Base/Distal AS STRING * 1	baForm	baForm	baForm	baDform
Base/Lateral AS STRING * 1	-	-	stForm	baLform
Base/Other AS STRING * 1	-	-	ShJunct	baOther
Blade Ratio AS SINGLE	blRatio	blRatio	blRatio	blRatio
Blade Curvature AS STRING * 1	blForm	blForm	blForm	blFlorm
PntAngle AS SINGLE	ShAngle	ShAngle	ShAngle	baAngle

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