Data copyright © Katherine Robson Brown unless otherwise stated
This work is licensed under the ADS Terms of Use and Access.
Dr
Kathryn
Holmes
Department of Archaeology
University of Bristol
43 Woodland Road
Bristol
BS8 1UU
UK
The Access (Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional) database was collated from information available in the literature. A full bibliography of all sources consulted can be viewed in the references section of this resource. Only sites for which all relevant data could be found were included in the database.
The data were georeferenced through the use of geographical co-ordinates (latitude/longitude). Frequently, this information was available from articles describing the discovery of the site or interpretation of the assemblages. When this was not the case, co-ordinates were predominantly obtained from Microsoft Encarta Premium Suite 2003 Interactive World Atlas as well as other atlases and gazetteers. In some cases this has resulted in only the approximate locations of sites being known.
The GIS software used was ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.) ArcView GIS v3.1 incorporating the Spatial Analyst v1.1 extension. The coverages were compiled in several stages, with the maps deposited here representing the final step.
The dataset has been used to assess the relationship between bone collagen preservation and the location of archaeological sites within Africa and Asia. Results and conclusions will be published in the Journal of Archaeological Science and the Journal of Human Evolution.