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emedyd

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Radiocarbon dates for the Eastern Mediterranean around the Younger Dryas

Description

Radiocarbon dates (n=1915) and site coordinates (n=201) from a paper considering the relationship between human activity in the eastern Mediterranean/Middle East and early Holocene climate change, including the Younger Dryas.

Usage

emedyd

Format

A data.frame with the following variables:

LabID: Laboratory ID assigned to each radiocarbon date (where known)
CRA: Radiocarbon age in 14C years BP
Error: Radiocarbon age error
Material: Material of the dated sample
Species: Species of the dated sample (where identified)
SiteName: Name of the site from which the sample has been recovered
Country: Country where the sampling site is located
Longitude: Longitude of the sampling site in decimal degrees
Latitude: Latitude of the sampling site in decimal degrees
Region: One of three analytical regions (1=southern Levant, 2=Northern Levant, 3= South-central Anatolia

Source

Palmisano, A., Bevan, A. and S. Shennan 2017. Data and code for demographic trends in the paper "Human responses and non-responses to climatic variations during the Last Glacial-Interglacial transition in the eastern Mediterranean", UCL Discovery Archive 1570274. doi:10.14324/000.ds.1570274.

References

Roberts, N., Woodbridge, J., Bevan, A., Palmisano, A., Shennan, S. and E. Asouti 2017. Human responses and non-responses to climatic variations during the Last Glacial-Interglacial transition in the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 184, 47-67. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.011.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(emedyd)
northernlevant <- emedyd[emedyd$Region=="2",]
bins <- binPrep(northernlevant$SiteName, northernlevant$CRA, h=50)
x <- calibrate(northernlevant$CRA, northernlevant$Error, normalised=FALSE)
spd.northernlevant <- spd(x, bins=bins, runm=50, timeRange=c(17000,8000))
plot(spd.northernlevant)

## End(Not run)

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