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. </strong><em>Quaternary Science Reviews</em>, <em>252</em>: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106739 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.