GrandeRivoire

grande.rivoire.connection

grande.rivoire.fragments

Grande Rivoire is a Mesolithic rock shelter located in France. This dataset describes the refitting 'connection' relationships between lithic fragments found during excavations. Connection relationship refers to physical connection between two fragments that were part of the same object. 
The dataset is composed of two tables:<ul>
<li><code>grande.rivoire.connection</code>: connection relationships between fragments.</li>
<li><code>grande.rivoire.fragments</code>: information about the fragments.</li>
</ul>

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Methods to analyse spatial units in archaeology from the relationships between refitting fragmented objects scattered in these units (e.g. stratigraphic layers). Graphs are used to model archaeological observations. The package is mainly based on the 'igraph' package for graph analysis. Functions can: 1) create, manipulate, and simulate fragmentation graphs, 2) measure the cohesion and admixture of archaeological spatial units, and 3) characterise the topology of a specific set of refitting relationships. Empirical datasets are provided as examples. Documentation about 'archeofrag' is provided by the vignette included in this package, by the accompanying scientific papers: Plutniak (2021, Journal of Archaeological Science, <doi:10.1016/j.jas.2021.105501>) and Plutniak (2022, Journal of Open Source Software, <doi:10.21105/joss.04335>). This package is complemented by a companion GUI application available at <https://analytics.huma-num.fr/Sebastien.Plutniak/archeofrag/>.

Sebastien Plutniak

archeofrag

Spatial Analysis in Archaeology from Refitting Fragments

GrandeRivoire function

<ul>
<li><code>grande.rivoire.connection</code> is a 71x2 matrix. Each line describes a connection relationship between two fragments. Their unique identifiers are given in column 'id1' and in column 'id2', respectively.</li>
<li><code>grande.rivoire.fragments</code> is a 91x3 data frame:<ul>
<li>id: fragment unique identifier</li>
<li>layer: archaeological layer where the fragment was found</li>
<li>layer.su: combination of the archaeological layer and sedimentary unit where the fragment was found</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

GrandeRivoire: Dataset: Refitting relationships between lithic fragments from the Grande Rivoire site

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