Mesolithic
From archdata v1.2
by David L Carlson
British Mesolithic assemblages
Counts of 5 different stone artifact types from 33 Mesolithic sites in Britain.
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Usage
data("Mesolithic")
Details
Data on 33 Mesolithic (9000 - 4000 BCE) assemblages are a subset Pitts (1979) extracted from a set published by Mellars (1976). The data were scanned from Table A3 (Appendix A) in Baxter (1994).
Format
A data frame with 33 observations on the following 5 variables.
Microliths
Number of microliths
Scrapers
Number of scrapers
Burins
Number of burins
Axes
Number of axes
Saws
Number of saws
Examples
# NOT RUN {
data(Mesolithic)
Mesolithic.pct <- prop.table(as.matrix(Mesolithic), 1)*100
apply(Mesolithic.pct, 2, quantile)
cor(Mesolithic.pct)
# }
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