Patterns of Etruscan urbanism (dataset)
Creators
- 1. Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Department of Ancient History
- 2. University of Cambridge, Magdalene College
- 3. University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology
- 4. University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology, McDonald Institute
- 5. University of Manchester, Art History and Cultural Practices
- 6. University of Michigan, Department of Classics
Description
The present digital archive is the outcome of the paper: Stoddart, S., Palmisano, A.,Redhouse, D.I., Barker, G., di Paola, G., Rasmussen, T., Samuels, T., Terrenato, N., and Witcher, R., in press. Patterns of Etruscan urbanism. Frontiers in Digital Humanities.
The dataset included here provides a collection of 1355 sites dating from the ninth to the fifth century BC, uncovered by systematic field survey carried out in central Italy (Tuscany and Lazio). In addition, the digital archive related to this paper provides reproducible analyses in the form of six scripts written in R statistical computing language. The present repository contains also a R Markdwon tutorial to drive step by step any practitioner interested in running some analytical tools to assess regional centralisation and settlement hierarchies: site-size histograms, rank-size graphs, A-coefficient, and B-coefficient.
Files
Palmisano_etal_data_and_code.zip
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