Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies (dataset and R scripts)

The present digital archive is the outcome of the paper: <strong>Palmisano, A., Lawrence, D., de Gruchy, M.W., Bevan, A., and Shennan, S., 2021. Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies. <em>Quaternary Science Reviews</em>, <em>252</em></strong>. The dataset included here provides a collection of <strong>10,606</strong> radiocarbon dates, <strong>1884</strong> sites from archaeological surveys (1336 from Central Anatolia and 478 from Upper Mesopotamia) and <strong>16</strong> palaeoclimatic records for a period spanning between 14,000 and 2500 BP. In addition, the digital archive related to this paper provides reproducible analyses in the form of four scripts written in R statistical computing language. List of versions: <strong>2.0.</strong> 15 December 2020 — Includes a few minor error corrections (the files 'References.txt' within the folder csv and the script 'radiocarbon.R'). <strong>1.0</strong> 28 November 2020 — First public release of the dataset on Zenodo.