Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies (dataset and R scripts) (Q10131)

The present digital archive is the outcome of the paper: Palmisano, A., Lawrence, D., de Gruchy, M.W., Bevan, A., and Shennan, S., 2021. Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews, 252. The dataset included here provides a collection of 10,606 radiocarbon dates, 1884 sites from archaeological surveys (1336 from Central Anatolia and 478 from Upper Mesopotamia) and 16 palaeoclimatic records for a period spanning between 14,000 and 2500 BP. In addition, the digital archive related to this paper provides reproducible analyses in the form of four scripts written in R statistical computing language. List of versions: 2.0. 15 December 2020 Includes a few minor error corrections (the files References.txt within the folder csv and the script radiocarbon.R). 1.0 28 November 2020 First public release of the dataset on Zenodo.