"Reconstructing ties between archaeological contexts may contribute to explain and describe a variety of past social phenomena. Several models have been formulated to infer the structure of such archaeological networks. The applicability of these…
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"Data set used for the illustrative case study. The data set contains information on 15 sites located between Puerto Rico in the northwestern Greater
Antilles and Grenada in the southern Lesser Antilles. The first two columns report information on the geographical area of the sites: the Antilles sub-regions (Subregion) and the islands (Island) on which the sits are located. The next two columns provide the exact location of the sites in terms of latitude (Latitude) and
longitude (Longitude). The next five columns contain information on the role played by the sites in the distribution of five lithic materials: Long Island flint (Long
Island), serpentinite (Serpentinite), Saint Martin greenstone (St. Martine Greenstone), carnelian (Carnelian), and amethyst (Amethyst). The classification of the
sites into supplier (site with lithic workshops), supplier/intermediate, consumer/intermediate, and consumer (site without evidence of stone working) is based on
studies of the lithic assemblages of the sites (Knippenberg 2007; Rodríguez Ramos 2007). The last two columns of the data set report information on the quantity
of finds (Quantity) and the composition of the ceramic assemblages (Cultural affiliation). Those information comes from excavation (see Hofman et al. (2014) and
Hofman et al. (2019)). The data set was created by Corinne Hofman and Angus Mol."
Knippenberg, S. (2007). Stone artefact production and exchange among the Lesser Antilles (Vol. 13). Amsterdam University Press.
Rodríguez Ramos, R. (2007). Puerto Rican precolonial history etched in stone (PhD Thesis). University of Florida.
Hofman, C. L., Mol, A., Ramos, R. R., & Knippenberg, S. (2014). Networks set in stone: Archaic-Ceramic interaction in the early pre-colonial northeastern Caribbean. Archéologie Caraibe, 119.
Hofman, C. L., Borck, L., Slayton, E., & Hoogland, M. L. (2019). Archaic age voyaging, networks, and resource mobility around the Caribbean Sea. In Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean Dearchaizing the Archaic. Sidestone Press Academics.