Lithic raw data for Sheppard's (1987) thesis on the Capsian

This is a collection of six lithic raw data spreadsheets created in the course of Peter Sheppard’s doctoral project on the prehistoric tradition of Northwest Africa known as the Capsian. Sheppard’s project investigated technological and stylistic variation in Capsian lithics. The spreadsheets provided here contain about 507,000 observations collected on some 20,100 artefacts (blanks, cores, burins, backed bladelets, and geometric microliths) from 16 sites. We recovered these data uncorrupted, byte-for-byte from a 40-year-old tape. In the provided PDF document, we restate with additional clarifications the data definitions from Sheppard (1987). We also detail the steps we took to transform the files found on the tape into usable data spreadsheets.