Crema, ER;
Bevan, A;
(2021)
Inference from large sets of radiocarbon dates: Software and methods.
Radiocarbon
, 63
(1)
pp. 23-39.
10.1017/RDC.2020.95.
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Abstract
The last decade has seen the development of a range of new statistical and computational techniques for analysing large collections of radiocarbon (14C) dates, often but not exclusively to make inferences about human population change in the past. Here we introduce rcarbon, an open-source software package for the R statistical computing language which implements many of these techniques and looks to foster transparent future study of their strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we review the key assumptions, limitations and potentials behind statistical analyses of summed probability distribution of 14C dates, including Monte-Carlo simulation-based tests, permutation tests, and spatial analyses. Supplementary material provides a fully reproducible analysis with further details not covered in the main paper.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Inference from large sets of radiocarbon dates: Software and methods |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/RDC.2020.95 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.95 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | demography; open source software; radiocarbon dating; statistical analysis; summed probability distribution |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132376 |
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