archdata (version 1.0)

EIAGraves: Early Iron Age Graves - Tell el-Far'ah, Palestine

Description

Counts of 52 different ceramic types in 6 large tombs and 10 broadly contemporaneous groups of tombs.

Usage

data("EIAGraves")

source

Baxter, M. J. 2003. Statistics in Archaeology. Arnold, London. McClellan, T. L. 1979. Chronology of the 'Philistine' Burials at Tell el-Farah (South). Journal of Field Archaeology 6: 57-73.

Details

The data on counts of 52 different ceramic types in 6 large tombs and 10 broadly contemporaneous groups of tombs come from Tell el-Far'ah (South), Palestine. They were originally published in McClellan (1979). The data were scanned from Table 2.5 in Baxter (2003, p. 25-6). The 52 rows correspond to different pottery types found in association with the burials.

Examples

data(EIAGraves)
# How many ceramics of each type?
# Exclude the first column which is the ceramic type number
rowSums(EIAGraves[, -1])
# How many tomb groups contain each type?
rowSums(EIAGraves[, -1]>0)
# How many ceramics in each tomb group?
colSums(EIAGraves[, -1])
# How many types are found in each tomb group?
colSums(EIAGraves[, -1]>0)