Geelbek dunes is a Middle and Late Stone Age open air site in South Africa. This dataset describes the refitting 'connection' relationships between bone, lithic, pottery, shell, and eggshell fragments found during surveys. A connection relationship refers to a physical connection between two fragments that were part of the same object.
The dataset is composed of two tables:
geelbek.connection: connection relationships between fragments.
geelbek.fragments: information about the fragments.
data(Geelbek)geelbek.connection is a 1081x2 matrix. Each line describes a connection relationship between two fragments. Their unique identifiers are given in columns 'id1' and 'id2', respectively.
geelbek.fragments is a 1458x6 data frame:
id: fragment unique identifier
sector: locality in the dunes.
material: type of objects (bone, lithic, pottery, shell, eggshell)
x: x coordinate of the location where the fragment was found (in metre)
y: y coordinate of the location where the fragment was found (in metre)
z: z coordinate of the location where the fragment was found (in metre)
Nicholas J. Conard, Andrew W. Kandel, Sébastien Plutniak. 2025. Refitting archaeological objects from the Geelbek Dunes Middle and Later Stone Age site (South Africa). Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15803288
Andrew W. Kandel, Nicholas J. Conard. 2012. Settlement patterns during the Earlier and Middle Stone Age around Langebaan Lagoon, Western Cape (South Africa). Quaternary International, 270, 15-29, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.038
data(Geelbek)
head(geelbek.fragments)
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