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Kline: Oceanic islands data

Description

Data on historic tool complexity and demography in various Oceanic islands societies. There are three data tables: (1) Kline is the basic data table; (2) Kline2 contains latitude and longitude columns; and (3) islandsDistMatrix is a matrix of pairwise distances between islands, in thousands of kilometers.

Usage

data(Kline)
data(Kline2)
data(islandsDistMatrix)

Arguments

Value

Format

  1. culture : Name of island culture

  2. population : Historical population size

  3. contact : low or high contact rate with other islands

  4. total_tools : number of tools in historical tool kit

  5. mean_TU : another measure of tool complexity

  6. lat : latitude of island

  7. lon : longitude of island

  8. lon2 : longitude coded for ease of plotting

  9. logpop : natural logarithm of population

References

Kline, M.A. and R. Boyd. 2010. Proc R Soc B 277:2559--2564.