Fibulae: Bronze La Tene fibulae from Munsingen, Switzerland

Description

The La T<U+00E8>ne fibulae from the Iron Age cemetery of M<U+00FC>nsingen near Berne, Switzerland (100 - 500 BCE) described by F. R. Hodson (1968).

Usage

data("Fibulae")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 30 observations on the following 16 variables.

Grave: Grave number
Mno: Museum number
FL: Foot Length
BH: Bow Height
BFA: Bow Front Angle
FA: Foot Angle
CD: Coil Diameter
BRA: Bow Rear Angle
ED: Element Diameter
FEL: Foot Extension Length
C: Catchplate
BW: Bow Width
BT: Bow Thickness
FEW: Foot Extension Width
Coils: Number of Coils
Length: Total Length

Details

The La T<U+00E8>ne fibulae from the Iron Age cemetery of M<U+00FC>nsingen 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

Carlson, David L. 2017. Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R. Cambridge University Press, pp 88-91, 95-99, 103-109, 127-129, 132-138, 162-169.

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

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
data(Fibulae)
t(sapply(Fibulae[, 3:16], quantile, na.rm=TRUE))
plot(density(Fibulae$Length, bw="SJ"), main="Kernel Density Plot of Length")
# }

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