rcarbon (version 1.5.1)

euroevol: Radiocarbon dates from the EUROEVOL database

Description

Radiocarbon dates (n=14,053) and site coordinates (n=4,213) from the EUROEVOL project database. Sites without radiocarbon dates (n=544), phase-codes, and other data have been omitted.

Usage

euroevol

Format

A data.frame with the following variables:

C14ID

ID of each radiocarbon date

C14Age

Radiocarbon age in 14C years BP

C14SD

Radiocarbon age error

LabCode

Labcode of the radiocarbon date

Material

Material of the dated sample

SiteID

ID of the site from which the sample has been recovered

Latitude

Latitude of the sampling site in decimal degrees

Longitude

Longitude of the sampling site in decimal degrees

Country

Country where the sampling site is located

References

Shennan, S., Downey, S.S., Timpson, A., Edinborough, K., Colledge, S., Kerig, T., Manning, K., Thomas, M.G., 2013. Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe. Nature Communications 4, ncomms3486. doi:10.1038/ncomms3486

Timpson, A., Colledge, S., Crema, E., Edinborough, K., Kerig, T., Manning, K., Thomas, M.G., Shennan, S., 2014. Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method. Journal of Archaeological Science 52, 549-557. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.011

Examples

if (FALSE) {
data(euroevol)
Ireland <- subset(euroevol,Country=="Ireland")
bins <- binPrep(Ireland$SiteID,Ireland$C14Age,h=200)
x <- calibrate(Ireland$C14Age,Ireland$C14SD)
spd.ireland <- spd(x,bins=bins,runm=200,timeRange=c(8000,4000))
plot(spd.ireland)
}