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Apertures of Chupa Pots from Three Philippine Communities
Description
The apertures of the chupa pots from three Philippine locations:
Dalupa (ApDl), Dangtalan (ApDg), and Paradijon (ApP).
Usage
data(pot)
Format
A data frame with 343 observations of 2 variables: obs
(integer values of observed apertures)
and locations (factor with 3 levels).
Details
Archaeologists are concerned with the effect that increasing economic activity had on older civilizations. Economic growth and its related economic specialization led to the "standardization hypothesis", i.e., increased production of an item would lead to its becoming more uniform. Kvamme et al. (1996) focused on earthenware, chupa-pots from three Philippine communities that differ in the way they organize ceramic production. In Dangtalan, pottery is primarily made for household use; in Dalupa there is a non-market barter economy where potters exchange their works. In the village of Paradijon, near the provincial capital, full-time pottery specialists sell their output to shopkeepers for sale to the general public.
Source
The data are kindly provided by Professor Kvamme (Kvamme et al. 1996).
References
Kvamme KL, Stark MT, Longacre WA (1996). “Alternative procedures for assessing standardization in ceramic assemblages.” American Antiquity, 61(1), 116–126. doi:10.2307/282306.