This repository contains code and figures for our paper:
Kenneth B. Vernon
, Donald A. Shiffler
, and Scott Ortman
(2025). Migration and Environmental Learning in Interstitial Areas: An Example from the Northern Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico. Open Archaeology.
Preprint: manuscript.pdf
Supplement: exploratory-data-analysis.html
📂 _extensions has Quarto extension for compiling manuscript
📂 data contains site attribute data
  ⊢ 💾 rp-ceramics.csv
  ⊢ 💾 rp-lithics.csv
  ⊢ 💾 rp-sites.csv
  ⊢ 💾 tables.Rdata used in manuscript
📂 figures contains all figures included in the paper
📂 manuscript contains the pre-print
  ⊢ 📄 bibliography.bib
  ⊢ 📄 manuscript.qmd
  ⊢ 📄 manuscript.pdf
📂 R code for preparing data and conducting analysis, including
  ⊢ 📄 exploratory-data-analysis.qmd is the primary
analysis and
  ⊢ 📄 get-elevation.R downloads DEMs.
  ⊢ 📄 get-places.R downloads polygons for nearby places.\
The locations of archaeological sites are sensitive data in the US, so we cannot simply share that information here. We do, however, include non-sensitive attribute data in the data folder. If you would like to get access to the spatial data, you will need to get permission from the State Historic Preservation Office in New Mexico.
Assuming you had access to the data in rio-puerco.gpkg, you could
re-run all of the data preparation and analysis like this:
library(here)
library(quarto)
# needs to be run in this order
here("R", "get-elevation.R") |> source()
here("R", "get-places.R") |> source()
here("R", "exploratory-data-analysis.qmd") |> quarto_render()
# if you have a hankerin' to compile the manuscript
# you can do that like so:
here("manuscript", "manuscript.qmd") |> quarto_render()
The last bit will open the manuscript in your browser, which you can then print to PDF.
Text and figures: CC-BY-4.0
Code: MIT
Data: CC-BY-4.0.