EIAGraves {archdata} | R Documentation |
Early Iron Age Graves - Tell el-Far'ah, Palestine
Description
Counts of 52 different ceramic types in 6 large tombs and 10 broadly contemporaneous groups of tombs.
Usage
data("EIAGraves")
Format
A data frame with 52 rows (ceramic types) found in 16 units (a grave or a group of graves).
Type
Ceramic type number
G100
19 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
G200B
30 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
G200C
28 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
G201
An indidivual tomb
G229
An indidivual tomb
G500N
19 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
G532
An indidivual tomb
G542
An indidivual tomb
G552
An indidivual tomb
G562
An indidivual tomb
G600
52 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
G800
39 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
G900B
41 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
G900L
3 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
G900S
5 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
G900U
7 broadly contemporaneous graves and tombs
Details
The data on counts of 52 different ceramic types in 6 large tombs and 10 broadly contemporaneous groups of tombs come from Tell el-Far'ah (South), Palestine. They were originally published in McClellan (1979). The data were scanned from Table 2.5 in Baxter (2003, p. 25-6). The 52 rows correspond to different pottery types found in association with the burials.
Source
Baxter, M. J. 2003. Statistics in Archaeology. Arnold, London.
McClellan, T. L. 1979. Chronology of the 'Philistine' Burials at Tell el-Farah (South). Journal of Field Archaeology 6: 57-73.
Examples
data(EIAGraves)
# How many ceramics of each type?
# Exclude the first column which is the ceramic type number
rowSums(EIAGraves[, -1])
# How many tomb groups contain each type?
rowSums(EIAGraves[, -1]>0)
# How many ceramics in each tomb group?
colSums(EIAGraves[, -1])
# How many types are found in each tomb group?
colSums(EIAGraves[, -1]>0)