archdata (version 1.0)

EWBurials: Ernest Witte Cemetery, Austin, County, Texas, U.S.A.

Description

Sex, age, burial group, location, and burial orientation and direction facing from the Ernest Witte site, a Late Archaic cemetery in Texas (Hall 1981).

Usage

data(EWBurials)

source

Hall, G. D. 1981. Allen's Creek: A Study in the Cultural Prehistory of the Lower Brazos River Valley. The University of Texas at Austin. Texas Archeological Survey. Texas. Research Report No. 61.

Details

The Ernest Witte site in Austin County, Texas contains four burial groups from different time periods. Group 1 includes 60 interments and that occurred between about 2000 and 1200 BCE. Group 2 is the largest with 148 interments. The burials in this group were interred between about CE 200 and 500. Groups 3 and 4 include only 10 and 13 interments and date to CE 500 to 1500, but are not included in this data set which was taken from Appendix II (Hall 1981). Two of the variables, direction and looking, are circular data and require package circular. Hall (2010) provides a summary of the site and its significance.

References

Hall, G. D. 2010. Ernest Witte site. Handbook of Texas Online http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/bbe05. Texas State Historical Association.

Examples

data(EWBurials)
xtabs(~Age+Sex+Group, EWBurials)

library(circular)
plot(EWBurials$Direction)