Package 'binford'

Title: Binford's Hunter-Gatherer Data
Description: Binford's hunter-gatherer data includes more than 200 variables coding aspects of hunter-gatherer subsistence, mobility, and social organization for 339 ethnographically documented groups of hunter-gatherers.
Authors: Ben Marwick [aut, cre], Amber Johnson [aut], Doug White [aut], E. Anthon Eff [aut]
Maintainer: Ben Marwick <[email protected]>
License: GPL-3
Version: 0.1.0
Built: 2024-07-06 02:57:53 UTC
Source: https://github.com/benmarwick/binford

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Binford's data

Description

Datasets used to calculate Binford's environmental and hunter-gatherer frames of reference variables used in Binford (2001).

Usage

LRB

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 339 rows and 507 columns.

Details

Binford, Lewis R. 2001. Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets University of California Press, Berkeley

The key to the variables in this object is in LBRkey

Downloaded from the source url on 31 Jul 2016

Source

http://ajohnson.sites.truman.edu/data-and-program/


Binford's data - labeled version

Description

Datasets used to calculate Binford's environmental and hunter-gatherer frames of reference variables used in Binford (2001). LRBfact is equal to LRB except code values are represented by their label, rather than the code.

Usage

LRBfact

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 339 rows and 507 columns.

Details

Binford, Lewis R. 2001. Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets University of California Press, Berkeley

The key to the variables in this object is in LBRkey

Downloaded from the source url on 31 Jul 2016

Source

http://ajohnson.sites.truman.edu/data-and-program/


Key to Binford's data

Description

Data frame describing the variables in the LRB data frame. Part of the datasets used to calculate Binford's environmental and hunter-gatherer frames of reference variables used in Binford (2001).

Usage

LRBkey

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 506 rows and 16 columns.

Details

Binford, Lewis R. 2001. Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets University of California Press, Berkeley

Downloaded from the source url on 31 Jul 2016

Source

http://ajohnson.sites.truman.edu/data-and-program/