The goal of evoarchdata is to make easily available some important artefact datasets from archaeological studies of cultural evolution. The motivation for this package is to make it easier to teach and study cultural evolution in the archaeological record.
You can install the development version of evoarchdata from GitHub with:
if (!require(devtools)) install.packages("devtools")
install_github("benmarwick/evoarchdata")Here’s a summary of the datasets currently in this package:
tbl_of_data <- vcdExtra::datasets("evoarchdata")
#> Loading package: evoarchdata
knitr::kable(tbl_of_data)| Item | class | dim | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| armature_types_france | data.frame | 9x20 | Arrowheads from Neolithic France (Crema et al. 2014; Saintot 1998) |
| ceramics_hittite_turkey | data.frame | 18x7 | Ceramic bowls from Boğazköy-Hattusa (Steele et al. 2010; Brantingham and Perreault 2010) |
| ceramics_lbk_merzbach | data.frame | 8x37 | Decorative motifs in the Merzbach assemblage, Neolithic Germany (Crema et al. 2016) |
| ceramics_woodland_illinois | data.frame | 160x15 | Illinois Woodland Ceramics (Braun 1977, 1985; Neiman 1995) |
| kurgans_catacomb | data.frame | 703x56 | Kurgans of the Catacomb culture (Ślusarska 2006) |
| lithics_acheulean_virtual | data.frame | 200x4 | Copying error in virtual Acheulean handaxes (Kempe et al. 2012) |
| lithics_lpalaeolithic_neurope | data.frame | 632x6 | Late Palaeolithic Projectile Points from Northern Europe (Riede 2009) |
| textiles_ikat_seasia | data.frame | 36x111 | Southeast Asian Warp Ikat Weaving (Buckley 2012) |
To use a dataset in your R session, you can load it like this:
library(evoarchdata)
data(ceramics_lbk_merzbach)
# and then take a look at the data
ceramics_lbk_merzbach
#> Phase BT14 BT25 BT60 BT21 BT36 BT44 BT20 BT22 BT19 BT27 BT29 BT24 BT26 BT6
#> 1 VII 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 9 0 0
#> 2 VIII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 8 0 0
#> 3 IX 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 0 10 4 1
#> 4 X 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 11 13 4 1 19 8 2
#> 5 XI 7 1 0 4 2 1 39 3 49 12 0 46 7 5
#> 6 XII 19 5 0 8 3 2 71 12 134 14 1 82 28 1
#> 7 XIII 17 4 1 3 1 1 74 9 139 15 2 92 19 0
#> 8 XIV 41 9 1 9 3 3 48 4 84 11 3 45 8 1
#> BT3 BT17 BT13 BT16 BT5 BT2 BT11 BT99 BT49 BT12 BT4 BT15 BT9 BT39 BT10 BT8 BT1
#> 1 7 0 28 2 10 73 16 0 0 14 15 5 23 1 108 337 510
#> 2 8 0 35 1 13 59 8 0 0 16 7 2 8 0 43 120 157
#> 3 21 0 79 3 9 47 20 0 0 18 7 6 2 0 34 72 68
#> 4 41 1 99 5 14 60 23 0 0 12 1 3 4 1 35 43 59
#> 5 104 3 204 8 37 128 32 0 0 14 3 2 11 0 25 49 66
#> 6 156 3 284 12 36 135 22 0 0 11 3 0 5 0 3 23 45
#> 7 137 1 205 7 19 54 6 0 0 2 4 0 1 0 2 8 14
#> 8 67 0 60 2 8 11 1 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 3 3
#> BT30 BT18 BT47 BT38 BT23
#> 1 3 6 3 4 5
#> 2 0 2 0 0 0
#> 3 0 1 0 0 0
#> 4 1 0 0 0 0
#> 5 0 0 0 0 0
#> 6 0 0 0 0 0
#> 7 0 0 0 0 0
#> 8 0 0 0 0 0If you use any of these datasets, you must cite the original publication, listed below.
The datasets are made available here for fair use in teaching and
research. All datasets are copyright of the original author or
publisher, except ceramics_lbk_merzbach which is distributed by Crema
et al (2016) under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY
license, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original work is properly cited.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.