The “Neolithic Founder Crops” in Southwest Asia: Research Compendium

This repository contains the data and code for our paper:

Arranz-Otaegui, Amaia, and Roe, Joe (2023). Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia. Vegetation History & Archaeobotany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00917-1

Contents

The analysis directory contains:

• 📁 SI1.Rmd: R Markdown source code for the supplement to our manuscript describing the quantitative analysis. It includes code to reproduce the figures and tables generated by the analysis.
  • 📁 SI1.html: rendered version of the supplement in HTML format.
  • 📁 SI1.pdf: rendered version of the supplement in PDF format.
• 📁 data: Data used in the analysis.
  • 📁 raw_data: Data from other sources – see manuscript for attribution.
  • 📁 derived_data: Collated and processed dataset used for our analysis.
• 📁 figures: Individual figures and tables generated in the analysis.

Additional R functions supporting the analysis are contained in the R directory.

Run the compendium locally

This research compendium has been developed using the statistical programming language R. To work with the compendium, you will need installed on your computer the R software itself and optionally RStudio Desktop.

You can download the compendium as a zip from from this URL: master.zip. After unzipping: - open the .Rproj file in RStudio - run devtools::install() to ensure you have the packages this analysis depends on (also listed in the DESCRIPTION file). - finally, open analysis/analysis.Rmd and ‘knit’ or run rmarkdown::render("analysis/analysis.Rmd") in the R console to produce the analysis.html and analysis.pdf.

Citation

Arranz-Otaegui, Amaia, and Roe, Joe (2023). Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia. Vegetation History & Archaeobotany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00917-1

In addition to our paper above, you can cite this compendium specifically as:

Roe, Joe, & Arranz Otaegui, Amaia. (2023). The “Neolithic Founder Crops” in Southwest Asia: Research Compendium. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5911218>

Licenses

Text and figures: CC-BY-4.0

Code: See the DESCRIPTION file

Data: CC-0 attribution requested in reuse