Collapse and Continuity: A multi-proxy reconstruction of settlement organization and population trajectories in the Northern Fertile Crescent during the 4.2kya Rapid Climate Change event (dataset and R scripts)

The present digital archive is the outcome of the paper: <strong>Lawrence, D., Palmisano, A., and de Gruchy, M.W., 2021. Collapse and Continuity: A multi-proxy reconstruction of settlement organization and population trajectories in the Northern Fertile Crescent during the 4.2kya Rapid Climate Change event</strong>. <em><strong>PLoS ONE</strong></em><strong>,</strong> <strong><em>16</em></strong>(1). The dataset included here provides a collection of <strong>920 </strong>radiocarbon dates and <strong>1070</strong> sites from archaeological surveys. In addition, the digital archive related to this paper provides reproducible analyses in the form of three scripts written in R statistical computing language.