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Copying error in virtual Acheulean handaxes \insertCiteKempe2012-nsevoarchdata

Description

Experimental data on unintential copying error in cultural transmission. In \insertCiteKempe2012-ns;textualevoarchdata's experiment, participants were split into 20 transmission chains and asked to copy the size of a virtual Acheulean handaxe.

Usage

lithics_acheulean_virtual

Format

A data frame with 200 rows and 4 variables:

chain

Number of the transmission chain.

place

Place of the handaxe in the chain.

scale

Size of the handaxe on an arbitrary scale.

condition

Whether the handaxe is larger or smaller than the previous handaxe in the chain.

Source

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048333.s002

References

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