Dataset of archaeological measurements with terminus post and ante quem dating

This is a real but "anonymized" dataset of archaeological data.

Usage

animals

Format

A data frame with 5533 rows and 6 variables:

• taxa 4 species names (imaginary)

• site 64 site names (abbreviated)

• us 1013 us (abbreviated), within these sites

• tpq terminal post quem, ranging from -225 to 375

• taq terminal ante quem, ranging from -175 to 700

• value the parameter of interest measured

Source

Unpublished dataset, modified by the authors to become a toy dataset.

Details

The original dataset aimed at measured the evolution of the value index, of four taxa, on remains recovered in us within site wand with datations provided as tpq and taq.