Data and Code to Reproduce Plots in "The influence of cognitive evolution on handaxe making skill in the Acheulean"

This repository contains the data and code to reproduce the plots presented in the paper "The influence of cognitive evolution on handaxe making skill in the Acheulean" by Antoine Muller, Ceri Shipton, Gonen Sharon, and Leore Grosman. Getting Started Download all files and in 04MATLABscript (line 9) change the file location ('C:\...') to the folder where you downloaded the contents. Running the script will produce the plots in directory 02plots that were used to generate the results figures in the manuscript. The code was run with Windows 11 and MATLAB version R2024b with the following toolboxes installed: curve_fitting_toolbox statistics_toolbox text_analytics_toolbox Contents 01dependenciesDirectory of MATLAB scripts accessed from MathWorks FileExchange plot_ellipse.m scatplot.m References:Ma, M (2005). plot_ellipse (https://se.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8604-plot_ellipse), MATLAB Central File Exchange, Retrieved April 12, 2025 Sanchez, A (2005). scatplot (https://se.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8577-scatplot), MATLAB Central File Exchange, Retrieved June 18, 2023 02plotsDirectory of expected plots contained in figures including:MATLAB Figure# ManuscriptFig# Figure 1 Fig3 a Figure 2 Fig3 b upper Figure 3 Fig3 b lower Figure 4 Fig3 c upper Figure 5 Fig3 c middle Figure 6 Fig3 c lower Figure 7 Fig5 Figure 8 Fig6 Figure 9 Fig7 upper Figure 10 Fig7 lower left Figure 11 Fig7 lower middle Figure 12 Fig7 lower right Figure 13 Fig8 inset of a Figure 14 Fig8 a and b 03dataxlsx file containing all data needed to reproduce plots Sheet 1 - HandaxeData Sheet 2 - SiteDates Sheet 3 - CraniaData (Data from Dataset S04 of Püschel et al 2024) Reference:Püschel, T.A., Nicholson, S.L., Baker, J., Barton, R.A., Venditti, C., 2024. Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 121, e2409542121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409542121. 04MATLABscriptMATLAB (R2024b) script for generating plots.