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archdata (version 1.2-1)

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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Version

1.2-1

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GPL (>= 2)

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David L Carlson

Last Published

January 12th, 2021

Functions in archdata (1.2-1)

Seven African Acheulean Sites

Piece plotted artifacts from Barmose I, South Zealand, Denmark

Early Stone Age Sites - Norway

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

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

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

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

Bronze Age Cups from Italy

Female Iron Age Graves, Bornholm, Denmark

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

Mask Site, Alaska, USA

British Mesolithic assemblages

Prehistoric Ceramics at Pueblo San Cristobal, New Mexico, USA

Younger Neolithic Pottery from Central Europe

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

Upper Paleolithic Engraved Bone Design Elements - Spain

Romano-British Glass, Major and Minor Elements

Romano-British Glass, Trace Elements

Romano-British Pottery

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

Bronze La Tene fibulae from Munsingen, Switzerland

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

Distribution of Late Romano-British Oxford Pottery

Late Stone Age and Early Sami Iron Age Pithouses in Arctic Norway

Olorgesailie.sub

Stone tool subclasses, Olorgesailie, Kenya

Neolithic TRB Pottery from Demark

Olorgesailie.maj

Major stone tool classes, Olorgesailie, Kenya

archdata-package

archdata - Archaeological Data Sets