Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies (dataset and R scripts)
Creators
- 1. Department of Ancient History, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
- 2. Department of Archaeology, Durham University
- 3. Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Description
The present digital archive is the outcome of the paper: Palmisano, A., Lawrence, D., de Gruchy, M.W., Bevan, A., and Shennan, S., 2021. Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews, 252.
The dataset included here provides a collection of 10,606 radiocarbon dates, 1884 sites from archaeological surveys (1336 from Central Anatolia and 478 from Upper Mesopotamia) and 16 palaeoclimatic records for a period spanning between 14,000 and 2500 BP. In addition, the digital archive related to this paper provides reproducible analyses in the form of four scripts written in R statistical computing language.
List of versions:
- 2.0. 15 December 2020 — Includes a few minor error corrections (the files 'References.txt' within the folder csv and the script 'radiocarbon.R').
- 1.0 28 November 2020 — First public release of the dataset on Zenodo.
Files
Palmisano_etal_data_and_code.zip
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