era 0.3.1: year-based time scales in R
era v0.3.1 is now available on CRAN:
era v0.3.1 is now available on CRAN:
era is a small R package for working with different year numbering systems. There are a few systems in use in archaeology, geology, and other palaeosciences;...
The theme for day 5 of the #30DayMapChallenge is “blue”. My submission is a map of simulated rainfall in Southwest Asia during key climate periods in the Lat...
Most of us in the western world take drinking milk for granted, but the ability to digest lactose into adulthood is actually relatively uncommon from a globa...
Archaeologists like to define themselves by their material. Asked “what do you work on?” at a conference, their response will most likely be something like z...
Most of us in the western world take drinking milk for granted, but the ability to digest lactose into adulthood is actually relatively uncommon from a globa...
The reproducibility crisis! It’s shaking the very foundations of the ivory tower. Reportedly the psychology wing is already in rubble. Medical researchers ar...
The way the word ‘civilisation’ is bandied about in popular writing about ancient history has always bugged me. Most archaeologists must be well aware of how...
The theme for day 5 of the #30DayMapChallenge is “blue”. My submission is a map of simulated rainfall in Southwest Asia during key climate periods in the Lat...
The #30DayMapChallenge is an event challenging cartographers to make a map on a given theme on each day in November 2020.
I wrote a brief guest post for the Kharaneh IV blog, an Epipalaeolithic site in Jordan where I’ve been working the last few weeks:
Wikipedia is the world’s most widely read reference work but it has a well known systematic bias towards the interests of affluent, Western, young geeky men:...