Variation partitioning of artefact abundance datamatrices for each of the six considered time periods with corresponding P values.

Presented variation estimates correspond to adjusted R2 values. Upper panel (a) represents results from a partitioning of spatial [S] and environmental variation [E]. In the lower panel (b), the presence of historic settlements present in the preceding time period [H] is included as an additional component in the analyses. NEO_ECH: Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic (6500–5500 BC); LCH_EBI: Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age I (4000–2600 BC); EBII: Early Bronze Age II (2600–2300 BC); A-CH: Archaic-Classical/Hellenistic (750–200 BC). HELL: Hellenistic (333–25 BC); BYZ: Byzantine (610–1300 BC).