The La T<U+00E8>ne fibulae from the Iron Age cemetery of M<U+00FC>nsingen near Berne, Switzerland (100 - 500 BCE) described by F. R. Hodson (1968).
data("Fibulae")
A data frame with 30 observations on the following 16 variables.
Grave
Grave number
Mno
Museum number
FL
Foot Length
BH
Bow Height
BFA
Bow Front Angle
FA
Foot Angle
CD
Coil Diameter
BRA
Bow Rear Angle
ED
Element Diameter
FEL
Foot Extension Length
C
Catchplate
BW
Bow Width
BT
Bow Thickness
FEW
Foot Extension Width
Coils
Number of Coils
Length
Total Length
The La T<U+00E8>ne fibulae from the Iron Age cemetery of M<U+00FC>nsingen near Berne, Switzerland were reported by F. R. Hodson (1968). They were featured in several papers by Hodson over the years and used to illustrate a variety of multivariate statistical techniques. The data here were taken from Doran and Hodson (1975), Table 9.1. These are the raw measurements including 5 missing values in foot extension thickness and 1 in foot extension length.
Carlson, David L. 2017. Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R. Cambridge University Press, pp 88-91, 95-99, 103-109, 127-129, 132-138, 162-169.
Hodson, F. R., P. H. A. Sneath, J. E. Doran. 1966. Some Experiments in the Numerical Analysis of Archaeological Data. Biometrika 53: 311-324.
Hodson, F. R. 1969. Searching for Structure within Multivariate Archaeological Data. World Archaeology 1: 90-105.
Hodson, F. R. 1970. Cluster Analysis and Archaeology: some New Developments and Applications. World Archaeology 1: 299-320.
Hodson, F. R. 1971. Numerical Typology and Prehistoric Archaeology. In Mathematics int eh Archaeological and Historical Sciences, edited by F. R. Hodson, D. G. Kendall and P. Tautu, pp 30-45. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
Sneath, P. H. A. 1968. Goodness of Intuitive Arrangements into Time Trends Based on Complex Pattern. Systematic Zoology 17: 256-260.
# NOT RUN {
data(Fibulae)
t(sapply(Fibulae[, 3:16], quantile, na.rm=TRUE))
plot(density(Fibulae$Length, bw="SJ"), main="Kernel Density Plot of Length")
# }
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