Correspondence analysis: An alternative to principal components

Bølviken, Erik; Helskog, Ericka; Helskog, Knut; Holm‐Olsen, Inger Marie; Solheim, Leiv; Bertelsen, Reidar

doi:10.1080/00438243.1982.9979848

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“…Since we had to analyze together 39 assemblages and more than ten variables (taxa ; Table 3), correspondence analysis (CA) was employed as the most suitable tool to achieve this purpose. The simultaneous consideration of multiple categorical variables can reveal relationships that would not be detected in a series of pair comparisons of variables (Bølviken et al, 1982;Clouse, 1999;Smith and Munro, 2009). CA allows the introduction of small assemblages, as the process characterizes each row (assemblages) and each column (taxa) by its profile (relative frequencies).…”

Section: Analysis Of the Faunal Spectramentioning

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What's behind the tell phenomenon? An archaeozoological approach of Eneolithic sites in Romania

Bréhard

Bălășescu²

2012

Journal of Archaeological Science

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a b s t r a c tThis article is concerned with the Eneolithic period in southeastern Europe, which corresponds to a phase of increasing social complexity. We demonstrate that the development of a new type of settlement, the tell site, which in southeastern Romania fully began with the Gumelnit¸a culture, was accompanied by changes in the meat component of the diet. The 39 available faunal spectra are processed by correspondence analyses; this shows that the homogeneity that characterized the previous cultures (Hamangia and Boian) was followed by a greater diversity in animal exploitation systems in the Gumelnit¸a culture. The main change is the important role that large game played for some Gumelnit¸a communities (the favored species varied). However, variability existed within the domestic species as well. This may result from the interaction between several possible factors (e.g. new husbandry techniques, complex socio-economic relations between the sites, a great social value given to wild mammals). This diversity contrasts with the homogeneity of the pastoral practices developed for sheep (and, to a lesser extent, for cattle) at the Gumelnit¸a tell sites (reliable kill-off patterns were established for five sites). We also show that sheep exploitation was specialized. Given that this kind of specialized exploitation became the norm from the Gumelnit¸a period, we propose that the appearance of homogeneous and specialized practices for sheep is linked to the development of tell sites. More generally, certain standardization in pastoral practices during the Gumelnit¸a period is possible. For three tell sites, it is likely that the youngest sheep and goats died mainly elsewhere; we suggest that these settlements were parts of larger pastoral systems, on a local or regional scale, and that places or sites with complementary functions existed.

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Section: Analysis Of the Faunal Spectramentioning

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What's behind the tell phenomenon? An archaeozoological approach of Eneolithic sites in Romania

Bréhard

Bălășescu²

2012

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…CA was first used by European archaeologists and then later adopted by American scholars to create frequency seriations of archaeological assemblages in diverse regional contexts (e.g., Baxter, 1994Baxter, , 2003Bølviken et al, 1982;Djindijan, 1985;Duff, 1996;Kintigh et al, 2004;Madsen, 1988;Smith and Neiman, 2007). CA has a number of advantages over other techniques employed in seriation in that it works directly with type or attribute frequencies, is capable of monitoring multiple influences in a data set concurrently (e.g., time, space, function, etc.…”

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Refining correspondence analysis-based ceramic seriation of regional data sets

Peeples

Schachner

2012

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…A full description of the statistical basis of CA is not presented here, as it has been detailed in numerous other publications (Bølviken et al 1982;Shennan 1988;Ter Braak 1986). Suffice it to say that CA is a multivariate statistical method that employs a process of ordination to arrange samples along axes based on their combined compositions.…”

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An Acquired Taste: Emulation and Indigenization of Cattle Forelimbs in the Southern Levant

Allentuck

2015

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Correspondence analysis: An alternative to principal components

Cited by 74 publications

References 6 publications

What's behind the tell phenomenon? An archaeozoological approach of Eneolithic sites in Romania

What's behind the tell phenomenon? An archaeozoological approach of Eneolithic sites in Romania

Refining correspondence analysis-based ceramic seriation of regional data sets

An Acquired Taste: Emulation and Indigenization of Cattle Forelimbs in the Southern Levant

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