Patterns of Etruscan urbanism (dataset and R scripts)

The present digital archive is the outcome of the paper: Stoddart, S., Palmisano, A.,Redhouse, D.I., Barker, G., di Paola, G., Motta, L., Rasmussen, T., Samuels, T., and Witcher, R., 2020. Patterns of Etruscan urbanism. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 7 (1). The dataset included here provides a collection of archaeological sites dating from the ninth to the fifth century BC, uncovered by systematic field survey carried out in central Italy (Tuscany and Lazio). In addition, the digital archive related to this paper provides reproducible analyses in the form of six scripts written in R statistical computing language. The present repository contains also a R Markdwon tutorial to drive step by step any practitioner interested in running some analytical tools to assess regional centralisation and settlement hierarchies: site-size histograms, rank-size graphs, A-coefficient, and B-coefficient. List of versions: 3.0 15 April 2025 - Entails revising the R scripts to replace the deprecated 'rgdal' package with the 'sf' package. 2.0. 31 March 2020 — Includes a few minor error corrections (the files 'Tutorial.RMD' and 'Tutorial.html'). 1.0 31 March 2020 — First public release of the dataset on Zenodo.