ceramics_lbk_merzbach: Decorative motifs in the Merzbach assemblage, Neolithic...

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Decorative motifs in the Merzbach assemblage, Neolithic Germany \insertCiteCrema2016-cvevoarchdata

Description

Frequencies of 36 types of pottery motif, grouped into 8 phases on the basis of a seriation of the pottery assemblages based on motif frequencies.

Usage

ceramics_lbk_merzbach

Format

A data frame with 8 rows and 37 variables:

Phase

Phase

BT14, etc

Counts of a motif

...

Details

These data have been used in numerous publications. I only mention \insertCiteCrema2016-cv;textualevoarchdata here because they are the only ones that make the raw data available.

From \insertCiteCrema2016-cv;textualevoarchdata:

Over 5800 pottery vessels recovered from a small group of settlements of the first farmers in Central Europe in the valley of the Merzbach stream in western Germany. The settlements belong to the so-called Linearbandkeramik culture. The number of houses in occupation varied through time, but altogether the settlement and ceramic sequence covers nearly five centuries, from ca. 5300 to 4850 cal B.C. The sites were almost completely excavated prior to their destruction by lignite mining, so the archaeological record of what has survived is largely complete. The ceramic vessels take the form of deep bowls whose decoration is highly distinctive and stylised, comprising a variety of distinct but clearly related band-types that were defined by the original excavation team.

Source

https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39122

References

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