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Research compendium for 'A meta-analysis of Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic cultural taxonomy and evolution in Europe' Compendium DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8119719 The files at the URL above will generate the results as found in the publication. The files hosted at https://github.com/yesdavid/CulturalTaxonomies_FinalPalaeolithic are the development versions and may have changed since the paper was published. Maintainer of this repository: David N. Matzig (david.matzig@cas.au.dk) Published in: Felix Riede, David N. Matzig, Miguel Biard, Philippe Crombé, Federica Fontana, Daniel Groß, Thomas Hess, Mathieu Langlais, Javier Fernández-Lopéz de Pablo, Ludovic Mevel, William Mills, Martin Moník, Nicolas Naudinot, Caroline Posch, Tomas Rimkus, Damian Stefański, Hans Vandendriessche, Shumon T. Hussain (2023) A meta-analysis of Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic cultural taxonomy and evolution in Europe. Abstract: Archaeological systematics, together with spatial and chronological information, are commonly used to infer cultural evolutionary dynamics in the past. For the study of the Palaeolithic, and particularly the European Final Palaeolithic and earliest Mesolithic, proposed changes in material culture are often interpreted as reflecting historical processes, migration, or cultural adaptation to climate change and resource availability. Yet, cultural taxonomic practice is known to be variable across research history and academic traditions, and few large-scale replicable analyses across such traditions have been undertaken. Drawing on recent developments in computational archaeology, we here present a data-driven assessment of the existing Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic cultural taxonomy in Europe. Our dataset consists of a large expert-sourced compendium of key sites, lithic toolkit composition, blade and bladelet production technology, as well as lithic armatures. The dataset comprises 16 regions and 86 individually named archaeological taxa ('cultures'), covering the period between ca. ... |