Frequency Seriation, Correspondence Analysis, and Woodland-Period Ceramic Assemblage Variation in the Deep South

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File Name	Description
MidLateWoodlandData.csv	Pottery type frequencies from Middle and Late-Woodland sites located along the Gulf Coast and the lower Chattahoochee and Apalachicola rivers. These are the data used by Smith and Neiman in their seriation and correspondence analysis. See Smith and Neiman (2007) for the procedures used to map types as reported by the orginal excavators onto to this dataset. CSV format.
MidLateWoodlandInventory.csv	Pottery type frequencies, as reported by the original exacavors, from Middle and Late-Woodland sites located along the Gulf Coast and the lower Chattahoochee and Apalachicola rivers. See Smith and Neiman (2007) for citations to the original sources. CSV format.
KolomokiData.csv	Pottery type frequencies from Kolomoki. CSV format.
SeriationTool.xls	Right click on the link to download SeriationTool.xls, an Excel spreadsheet containing VBA code that produces seriation diagrams. Courtesy of Carl Lipo at CSU, Long Beach.

References

Smith, Karen Y. and Fraser D. Neiman 2007 Frequency seriation, correspondence analysis, and Woodland-Period ceramic assemblage variation in the Deep South. Southeastern Archaeology 26 (1):47-72.