archdata (version 1.0)

Fibulae: Bronze La Tene fibulae from Munsingen, Switzerland

Description

The La Tène fibulae from the Iron Age cemetery of Münsingen near Berne, Switzerland described by F. R. Hodson (1968).

Usage

data("Fibulae")

encoding

UTF-8

source

Doran, J. E. and F. R. Hodson. 1975. Mathematics and Computers in Archaeology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hodson, F. R. 1968. The La Tène Cemetery at Műnsingen-Rain. Stampfli, Berne.

Details

The La Tène fibulae from the Iron Age cemetery of Münsingen 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.

References

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.

Examples

data(Fibulae)
t(sapply(Fibulae[, 3:16], quantile, na.rm=TRUE))
plot(density(Fibulae$Length, bw="SJ"), main="Kernel Density Plot of Length")