data.model: The ethnobotanical dataset from Amorgos

In elizabethastroud/Cropprocessing: Data organisation, classification and visualisation of archaeobotanical data to understand crop processing stage

The ethnobotanical dataset from Amorgos

Description

Ethnographic data collected in Greece on the attributes of the weed seeds found in four different stages of crop processing of free-threshing crops. The samples taken from the different stages are shown under the 6 different seed attribute groupings: BHH, BFH, SHH, SHL, SFH SFL

Format

A data frame with 216 observations on the following 8 variables.

PROC

The crop proccessing stage written as a number and used as the grouping factor in LDAcrop.pro and LDAcrop.plus

. 1= Winnowing by-product, 2= Coarse sieve by-product, 3= Fine sieve by-product, 4 =Fine sieve product

BHH

Big, headed and heavy

BFH

Big, free and heavy

SHH

Small, headed and heavy

SHL

Small, headed and light

SFH

Small, free and heavy

SFL

Small, free and light

Source

Jones, G. - maybe phd? over the paper we are publishing?

References

Jones, G. 1984. Interpretation of archaeological plant remains: ethnographic models from Greece. In (eds) W. van Zeist & W.A. Casparie, Plants and Ancient Man: Studies in Palaeoethnobotany. Rotterdam: Balkema, pp 43-61

Jones, G., 1987. A statistical approach to the archaeological identification of crop processing. Journal of Archaeological Science, 14(3), pp.311-323.

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