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archdata (version 1.2)

Example Datasets from Archaeological Research

Description

The archdata package provides several types of data that are typically used in archaeological research. It provides all of the data sets used in "Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R" by David L Carlson, one of the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology.

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install.packages('archdata')

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1.2

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GPL

Maintainer

David L Carlson

Last Published

February 19th, 2018

Functions in archdata (1.2)

Acheulean

Seven African Acheulean Sites
RBPottery

Romano-British Pottery
Snodgrass

House pits at the Mississippian Snodgrass site in Butler County, Missouri, U.S.A.
EngrBone

Upper Paleolithic Engraved Bone Design Elements - Spain
RBGlass1

Romano-British Glass, Major and Minor Elements
RBGlass2

Romano-British Glass, Trace Elements
ESASites

Early Stone Age Sites - Norway
EWBurials

Ernest Witte Cemetery, Austin, County, Texas, U.S.A.
Olorgesailie.maj

Major stone tool classes, Olorgesailie, Kenya
Olorgesailie.sub

Stone tool subclasses, Olorgesailie, Kenya
TRBPottery

Neolithic TRB Pottery from Demark
BACups

Bronze Age Cups from Italy
archdata-package

archdata - Archaeological Data Sets
BarmoseI.grid

Flakes per grid unit from Barmose I, South Zealand, Denmark
Michelsberg

Younger Neolithic Pottery from Central Europe
Nelson

Prehistoric Ceramics at Pueblo San Cristobal, New Mexico, USA
OxfordPots

Distribution of Late Romano-British Oxford Pottery
PitHouses

Late Stone Age and Early Sami Iron Age Pithouses in Arctic Norway
BarmoseI.pp

Piece plotted artifacts from Barmose I, South Zealand, Denmark
Bornholm

Female Iron Age Graves, Bornholm, Denmark
MaskSite

Mask Site, Alaska, USA
Mesolithic

British Mesolithic assemblages
EndScrapers

Upper Paleolithic End Scrapers from Castenet A and Ferrassie H, France
EIAGraves

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

Bronze La Tene fibulae from Munsingen, Switzerland
Arnhofen

Point pattern of mining pits from the Neolithic chert mine at Arnhofen
DartPoints

Five dart point types from Fort Hood, Texas, U.S.A.
Handaxes

Lower Paleolithic handaxes from Furze Platt, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England