Boxgrove-Exp

Differential effects of knapping skill acquisition on the cultural reproduction of Late Acheulean handaxe morphology: Archaeological and experimental insights, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (Accepted).

Getting Started

Please open the Rproj file instead of the Rcode directly to make sure relative paths work!

File Structure

The repository is organised into four main directories: code, data, figure, and manuscript.

code

• Boxgrove_Iovita.R ... This is the R script generating the main results and figures of this paper, including the compilation of Boxgrove morphonetric data and the comparative analysis of Boxgrove and experimental data.

data

• Boxgrove_Iovita... This folder includes two subfolder. Subfolder Sillhouettes contains sillhouettes of the Boxgrove handaxe assemblage generated through Adobe Photoshop. Subfolder Measurements contains morphometric measurements of sillhouettes generated through ImageJ.
• Experiment... This folder includes data of experimental handaxe collections.
• Table1.csv... This csv file is the output file for Table 1 in the manuscript.

figure

• Fig1.jpg ... This is Fig.1 in the manuscript.
• Fig2.png ... This is Fig.2 in the manuscript.
• Fig3.png ... This is Fig.3 in the manuscript.
• Fig4.png ... This is Fig.4 in the manuscript.
• Fig5.png ... This is Fig.5 in the manuscript.
• Fig6.png ... This is Fig.6 in the manuscript.
• Fig7.png ... This is Fig.7 in the manuscript.
• Fig8.png ... This is Fig.8 in the manuscript.
• Fig9.jpg ... This is Fig.9 in the manuscript.
• HPC1.png ... This is generated through Microsoft PowerPoint and integrated in Fig.4.
• HPC2.png ... This is generated through Microsoft PowerPoint and integrated in Fig.4.
• LPC1.png ... This is generated through Microsoft PowerPoint and integrated in Fig.4.
• LPC2.png ... This is generated through Microsoft PowerPoint and integrated in Fig.4.

manuscript

• apa.csl ... This is the APA citation styleguide.
• bibliography.bib ... This is the reference file.
• manuscript.pdf ... This is the pdf file of the manuscript.
• manuscript.Rmd ... This is the RMarkdown file of the manuscript.

Dependencies

The code has been successfully executed on on CL's PC with the following R settings.

• CL's R setting

R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19043)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.7             svglite_2.0.0          here_1.0.1            
[4] mvtnorm_1.1-2          lattice_0.20-44        zoo_1.8-9             
[7] assertthat_0.2.1       zeallot_0.1.0          rprojroot_2.0.2       
[10] digest_0.6.27          utf8_1.2.2             correlation_0.8.0     
[13] R6_2.5.1               plyr_1.8.6             evaluate_0.14         
[16] coda_0.19-4            httr_1.4.2             ggplot2_3.3.5         
[19] pillar_1.8.0           rlang_1.0.4            multcomp_1.4-17       
[22] performance_0.9.0      rstudioapi_0.13        Matrix_1.3-4          
[25] rmarkdown_2.10         splines_4.1.1          webshot_0.5.2         
[28] stringr_1.4.0          munsell_0.5.0          compiler_4.1.1        
[31] xfun_0.25              pkgconfig_2.0.3        systemfonts_1.0.2     
[34] parameters_0.17.0      ggstatsplot_0.9.1      WRS2_1.1-3            
[37] htmltools_0.5.1.1      insight_0.17.0         tidyselect_1.1.1      
[40] tibble_3.1.3           bookdown_0.23          codetools_0.2-18      
[43] reshape_0.8.8          fansi_0.5.0            viridisLite_0.4.0     
[46] dplyr_1.0.7            MASS_7.3-54            mc2d_0.1-21           
[49] grid_4.1.1             xtable_1.8-4           gtable_0.3.0          
[52] lifecycle_1.0.1        DBI_1.1.1              magrittr_2.0.1        
[55] bayestestR_0.11.5      statsExpressions_1.3.1 scales_1.2.0          
[58] datawizard_0.4.0       estimability_1.3       cli_3.0.1             
[61] stringi_1.7.3          paletteer_1.4.0        xml2_1.3.2            
[64] ellipsis_0.3.2         generics_0.1.0         vctrs_0.3.8           
[67] sandwich_3.0-1         TH.data_1.0-10         kableExtra_1.3.4      
[70] rematch2_2.1.2         tools_4.1.1            glue_1.4.2            
[73] purrr_0.3.4            emmeans_1.6.2-1        yaml_2.2.1            
[76] survival_3.2-11        colorspace_2.0-2       rvest_1.0.1           
[79] knitr_1.33             patchwork_1.1.1          

Help

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions related to the code or data.