BarmoseI.pp

Piece plotted artifacts from Barmose I, South Zealand, Denmark

Two dimensional locations of 473 artifacts at the Barmose I Maglemosian site used by Blankholm (1991) to illustrate several spatial analysis methods.

Usage

data(BarmoseI.pp)

Details

Barmose I is an early Maglemosian (7500 - 6000 BCE) site located in Barmosen in South Zealand, Denmark. The site was excavated in 1967-1971 by Axel Johansson (Johansson 1971 and 1990). Flake counts and grid coordinates were taken from Figure 100 in Blankholm (1991) for BarmoseI.grid. BarmoseI.pp includes the locations of 473 artifacts from Appendix C of Blankholm's book (1991).

Format

A data frame with 473 observations on the following 4 variables.

North

North coordinate

East

East coordinate

Class

Numeric code used by Blankholm: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Label

Artifact type: Scrapers, Burins, Lanceolate Microliths, Microburins, Flake Axes, Core Axes, Square Knives, Blade/Flake Knives, Denticulated/Notched Pieces, Cores, Core Platforms

References

Carlson, David L. 2017. Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R. Cambridge University Press, pp 367-377.

Johansson, Axel. 1971. Barmosegruppen. Pr<U+00E6>boreale Bopladsfund me Skive<U+00F8>kser i Sydsj<U+00E6>lland. Forel<U+00F8>big Meddelelse. Historisk Samfund for Pr<U+00E6>st<U+00F8> Amt. <U+00C5>rbog 1968, pp. 101--170.

Johansson, Axel. 1990. Barmosegruppen. Pr<U+00E6>boreale Bopladsfund i Sydsj<U+00E6>lland. <U+00C5>rbog. Aarhus University Press.

Aliases

• BarmoseI.pp

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(BarmoseI.pp)
plot(North~East, BarmoseI.pp, asp=1, pch=as.numeric(Class))
legend("bottomleft", levels(BarmoseI.pp$Label), pch=1:11, cex=.75)
# }