PALEODEM/ Supplementary materials of the manuscript "Unraveling Early Holocene occupation patterns at El Arenal de la Virgen (Alicante, Spain) open-air site: an integrated palimpsest analysis"

This repository hosts the R code scripts and datasets that allow reproducibility and replicability of the intra-site spatial analyses implemented in the paper: Rabuñal, J.R., Gómez-Puche, M., Polo-Díaz, A., Fernández-López de Pablo, J., 2022. Unraveling Early Holocene occupation histories at open-air sites through integrated chronological, archaeostratigraphical, lithic refitting and spatial analyses: the Arenal de la Virgen (Villena, Alicante) study case. SocArXiv. Contents: AV_Spatial_database.xlsx: main dataset for the intra-site spatial analysis. AV_Lcross_database.xlsx: dataset for the implementation of the cross-type L function. AV_2clusters.rds: dataset for the calculation of the artifact metrics. AV_MovingWindow_Results.csv: dataset with the results of the calculation of the Burnt Microdebris Index and its spatial autocorrelation analysis. AV_DBSCAN_Separation.R: R file containing the code used for the separation of the lithic spatial distribution using the DBSCAN automated density-based clustering algorithm. AV_Spatial_analysis.R: R file containing the code used for the intra-site spatial analysis. AV_MWA_Moran.R: R file containing the code for implementing the calculation and spatial autocorrelation analysis of the Burnt Microdebris Index.