- A file containing the outlines of archaeological surveys in the Titicaca Basin of Peru and Bolivia. This file should be viewed using Google Earth. You can either download it and open it from within Google Earth, or create a network link to the file using the URL in the link.
- An elevation dataset (DEM) grid for Bolivia's Taraco Peninsula. This was produced using GRASS 5.0 on a digitized version of the Taraco quad map (sheet 5844 IV) produced by the Instituto Geografico Militar (IGM) de Bolivia. The file is a GRASS ASCII grid file export. It should be easy to import into GRASS, and probably other GIS systems as well.
- The settlement dataset that formed the basis of my doctoral dissertation. It was included in my dissertation as Appendix A. I am making it available here as a tab-delimited file. Please let me know if you find it useful.
- The settlement dataset from James Mathews's 1992 dissertation. These sites are located in the Middle Tiwanaku Valley. This is a TAB-delimited file. Please note that I have modified this dataset somewhat to make it consistent with my own dataset. It is therefore not exactly the same as the version published by Mathews. The definitive source for these data are, of course, Mathews's dissertation. If you are going to make serious use of these data please obtain that document and be sure that you are using them correctly.
- The settlement dataset from Juan Albarracin-Jordan's 1992 dissertation. These sites are located in the Lower Tiwanaku Valley. This is a TAB-delimited file. The same cautions apply to this dataset as apply to the Middle Tiwanaku Valley data, above. If you are going to seriously use these data, get Albarracin-Jordan's dissertation to be sure that you are using them correctly.
- A small computer program I wrote for doing frequency profile analysis of mixed surface assemblages of Early and Middle Formative sherds from the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia. It might be interesting to people working in the area, or to those who would like to apply the method to other archaeological regions. It is available both as a command-line script and as a graphical (perl/Tk) application. The command-line version was included in my dissertation as Appendix C.
Matt Bandy
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