Andean Cordillera (Geographic Keyword)

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Architectural data from the Tarma and Upper Mantaro Drainages, Peru (2016)
DATASET Kaitlyn Davis. Scott Ortman.

Data analyzed in Table 4 of "Settlement Scaling and Economic Change in the Central Andes," by Ortman, Davis, Lobo, Smith, Bettencourt and Trumbo.


Lithic data from the Central Andes (2016)
DATASET Scott Ortman. Kaitlyn Davis. Aaron Trumbo.

Lithic data from excavations in the Upper Mantaro region, Peru. Retabulated from Russell (1988) dissertation and analyzed in Table 1 of "Settlement Scaling and Economic Change in the Central Andes."


Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (1877)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ephraim George Squier.

"Peru: Incidents and Exploration in the Land of the Incas" is E. George Squier's detailed account of his extensive travels in Peru and his investigation of many large archaeological sites during his appointment as US Commissioner to Peru in the mid-1860's. The main objective of Squier's work was, as he professed, to "illustrat[e] Inca civilization from its exisiting monuments" (Squier 1877: 4). The following excerpts from the book's introduction summarize Squier's accounts. "At that time a...


Pottery assemblage data from Roman Britain (2023)
DATASET Scott Ortman.

Data analyzed in: Ortman, Scott, Olivia Bulik, Rob Wiseman, José Lobo, Luis Bettencourt and Lisa Lodwick (2023) Transport Costs and Economic Change in Roman Britain. European Journal of Archaeology:1-24 AND Wiseman, Rob, Olivia Bulik, José Lobo, Lisa Lodwick and Scott G. Ortman (2023) The Impact of Transportation on Pottery Industries in Roman Britain. Open Archaeology 9(1).


Settlement Areas and Patio Group Areas from the Tarma and Upper Mantaro Drainages, Peru (2016)
DATASET Scott Ortman. Kaitlyn Davis.

Data analyzed in Table 2 of "Settlement Scaling and Economic Change in the Central Andes," by Ortman, Davis, Lobo, Smith, Bettencourt and Trumbo.


Settlement data from the 1960-1975 Basin of Mexico Surveys (2014)
DATASET Scott Ortman.

Data analyzed in Ortman, S. G., A. H. F. Cabaniss, J. Sturm, and L. M. A. Bettencourt, The Pre-History of Urban Scaling, PLOS ONE (Feb. 2014).


Settlement Scaling and Increasing Returns in an Ancient Society (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Ortman.

Main text and SI of published paper in PDF format. The SI includes a series of datasets derived from the Basin of Mexico surveys that are analyzed in the main text.


Social Reactors Project datasets
PROJECT Uploaded by: Scott Ortman

Datasets from various publications of the Social Reactors Project