shoredate: An R package for shoreline dating coastal Stone Age sites

Abstract

As a result of glacio-isostatic rebound, large regions of Fennoscandia have undergone a process of relative sea-level fall following the retreat of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet. Furthermore, coastal Stone Age sites in the region appear to have been predominantly located on or close to the shoreline when they were in use. Based on their altitude relative to the present-day sea-level, this can be combined with a reconstruction of past relative sea-level change to assign an approximate date to when the sites were in use. This method, called shoreline dating, has been used in the region since the early 1900s (e.g. Brøgger, 1905) and is still widely applied today (e.g. Manninen et al., 2021;Solheim & Persson, 2018).

aion: An R Package to Represent Archaeological Time Series

“…At the same time, numerous R packages have been developed to describe, analyze, and model temporal data in the context of archaeological studies in the broadest sense. These packages encompass various functionalities, including handling radiocarbon data (e.g., Bchron by Haslett & Parnell, 2008; rcarbon by Crema & Bevan, 2021), Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating (Luminescence by Kreutzer et al, 2012), Bayesian chronological modeling (ArchaeoPhases by Philippe & Vibet, 2020), using paleoenvironmental proxies (e.g., shoredate by Roalkvam, 2023), or other temporal data (e.g., kairos by Frerebeau, 2023). This multitude of packages underscores the significance of computational approaches in archaeology (Schmidt & Marwick, 2020).…”