EIAGraves: Early Iron Age Graves - Tell el-Far'ah, Palestine

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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)

Example output

 [1]  15  10   4  13   2   2  10   4  25  52  16   5  16   5  21  24   8   8  19
[20]   8   8   4   4   6  40  27  34  18  19  16 131   5   8  20  14   9  10   2
[39]  77   4 131  12   6  10  10   2  12  30   2  46  30   8
 [1]  7  4  3  3  2  2  5  4  9 16  3  4  4  3  9  9  2  4  7  3  4  3  2  2  6
[26]  7 10  5  4  8 14  3  3  7  5  7  5  1 14  2 15  5  4  4  7  2  5 10  2 15
[51]  9  5
 G100 G200B G200C  G201  G229 G500N  G532  G542  G552  G562  G600  G800 G900B 
   39   148    80    24    27    54    40    76    40    43   151    83    67 
G900L G900S G900U 
   41    70    39 
 G100 G200B G200C  G201  G229 G500N  G532  G542  G552  G562  G600  G800 G900B 
   17    31    11    12    13    22    19    22    17    19    31    20    14 
G900L G900S G900U 
   14    20    16 

archdata documentation built on Jan. 16, 2021, 5:35 p.m.