archdata (version 1.0)

ESASites: Early Stone Age Sites - Norway

Description

Data on 43 Early Stone Age assemblages in Norway come originally from Bølviken et al (1982).

Usage

data("ESASites")

encoding

UTF-8

source

Baxter, M. J. 1994. Exploratory Multivariate Analysis in Archaeology. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh. Bølviken, E., E. Helskog, K. Helskog, I. M. Holm-Olsen, L. Solheim, and R. Bertelsen. 1982. Correspondence Analysis: An Alternative to Principal Components. World Archaeology 14: 41-60.

Details

Data on 43 Early Stone Age assemblages in Norway come originally from Bølviken et al (1982). The data were scanned from Table A5 (Appendix A) in Baxter (1994).

Examples

data(ESASites)
NS <- rowSums(ESASites)
NT <- rowSums(ESASites > 0)
plot(NS, NT, xlab="Number of Artifacts", ylab="Number of Types", main="Early Stone Age Sites",
    las=1)