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

Description

Handaxes from the Furze Platt site stored at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Usage

data(Handaxes)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 600 observations on the following 8 variables.

Catalog: Specimen catalog number
L: Maximum Length
L1: Distance from the butt to the location of the maximum breadth measured along the length dimension
B: Maximum breadth
B1: Breadth measured at 1/5 of the length from the tip. Measured perpendicular to the length
B2: Breadth measured at 1/5 of the length from the butt. Measured perpendicular to the length
T: Maximum thickness, not necessarily measured at the maximum breadth
T1: Thickness measured at B1

Details

The data consist of measurements on 600 handaxes from the Furze Platt site stored at the Royal Ontario Museum that were measured by William Fox. The measurements follow the system used by Derek Roe (Roe 1964, 1968, 1981). Fox's measurements were digitized by Tony Baker and uploaded to his website.

References

Baker, Tony. 2006. The Acheulean Handaxe. Online article available at http://ele.net/acheulean/handaxe.htm. Accessed Oct 14, 2013.

Carlson, David L. 2017. Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R. Cambridge University Press, pp 221-231, 269-277, 321-330.

Fox, William. 1969. An Analysis of the R. O. M. Collection, Lower Paleolithic Implements: Furze Platt, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Unpublished paper and notes in the possession of the author.

Roe, D. A. 1964. The British Lower and Middle Paleolithic: some problems, methods of study and preliminary results. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 30: 245--267.

Roe, D. A. 1968. British Lower and Middle Paleolithic Handaxe groups. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 34: 1--82.

Roe, D. A. 1981. The Lower and Middle Paleolithic Periods in Britain. Routledge.

Examples

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