Chapter 8 Analysing artefact data

8.1 Overview

8.2 Basic analysis tasks

selecting columns selecting rows summarising by group tallying

8.3 Basic plotting tasks

bar plot: counts only - plain, stacked distribution plotting: histogram, density, boxplot, beeswarm plot scatter plot: with point shape, colour, size facetting interactive plotting colour schemes on plots statistical layers on plots plots to avoid: 3d, pie, lines over discrete categories

8.4 Stone artefacts

reduction indeces

geometric morphometry

orientation

8.5 Faunal remains

Species tables

NISP MNI

glm richness indeces

8.6 Pottery

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8.7 Glass