GINI Database All Records 20240721

Creator(s): Scott Ortman

Year: 2024

Summary

Flat, comma-delimited file containing all house records and associated site information compiled by the Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) Project. This version of the data was analyzed or further processed for several papers in the Special Feature on Housing Differences and Inequality over the Very Long Term published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. See Kohler et al. (2025) and Ortman et al. (2025) for descriptions of the database fields.

Cite this Record

GINI Database All Records 20240721. Scott Ortman. Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences. 2024 ( tDAR id: 502429) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8502429

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Data Set Structure

Measurement Column
Count Column
Coded Column
Filename Column
Integration Column (has Ontology)

Table Information: gini_database_all_records_20240721

Column Name Data Type Type Category Coding Sheet Ontology Search
tlkp.Period.Order BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
tlkp.Phase.Order BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
EndSite BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Latitude DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
NRooms BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
NStories BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
RoofedArea DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
LivingArea DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
UnroofedArea DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
StorageArea DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
StorageVolume DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Plant.cultivation...earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Plant.cultivation...common BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Animal.management...earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Animal.management...common BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Portage...earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Portage...common BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Riding...earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Riding...common BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Traction...earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Traction...common BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Enslavement...earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Enslavement...common BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Copper..smelted....earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Copper..smelted....common BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Bronze...earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Bronze...common BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
writing BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Earliest.massacre BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
weights.and.measures BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
earliest.marketplaces BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Currency BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
earliest.ostentatious.individual.burials BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
intra.site.public.buildings BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
specialized.production.of.goods BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Iron..smelted....earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Iron..smelted....common BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Complex.bow...earliest BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
BeginLocation BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
EndLocation BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
OccNext BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Twoscale BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Threescale BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
site_id BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
BeginSite BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
BeginHouse BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
AnimalArea DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Accessibility VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Fourscale BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Landlabor VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
qry.house.table.updated_at VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
qry.house.table.created_at VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
citation2 VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
citation1 VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
MoundHgt DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
qry.house.table.Comments VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
IsPlowed VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
TypeOfCenter VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
DistanceToCenter DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
LaborMultiplier BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
TotalAreaHouse DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
HousePhase VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
HousePeriod VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
HouseGroup VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Housetypedesc VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
source_file VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
StructureID VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
tbl.sites.updated_at VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
tbl.sites.created_at VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
tbl.sites.Comments VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Coder VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Ref2 VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Ref1 VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
GiniBasis VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Politytypdesc VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
FortificationComment VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Popmethdesc VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SitePhase VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SitePeriod VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Longitude DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
TotalArea DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
WindowArea DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
WindowHH BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
MinHH BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
MaxHH BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PopMethod BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
IsFortified BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
TypeOfPolity BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PolityPop DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PolityArea DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PolityEcon DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PolityGov DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PolityArch DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
GiniIndex DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
house_id BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
HouseType BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
tlkp.Period_1.Order BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
tlkp.Phase_1.Order BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
EndHouse BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SiteGroup BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SiteType VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SiteWeight BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
ProcessWith VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
WhichLevel BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
NOfLevels BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Subarea VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Subregion VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Region VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Bigregion VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SiteID VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Site VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
site_label VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true

Keywords

Culture
Holocene

Material
Building Materials

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex

Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation • Data Recovery / Excavation • Geophysical Survey • Reconnaissance / Survey • Remote Sensing • Systematic Survey

General
Ancient settlements and cities • Household Archaeology • Residence size

Geographic Keywords
Global database

Temporal Keywords
Holocene

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: -10500 to 1980

Individual & Institutional Roles

Principal Investigator(s): Timothy A. Kohler; Amy Bogaard

Project Director(s): Scott Ortman

Record Identifiers

GINI Project(s): Global Dynamics of Inequality Project

Notes

Redaction Note: Latitude and Longitude are provided only to 2 decimal places to safeguard site locations.

General Note: Citations for the data are given in each row of the dataset, and associated references are available through a publicly accessible Zotero bibliographic database: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5479570/gini_database

General Note: Associated bibliographic information for the citations given for each record is available at: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5479570/gini_database/library.

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
gini_database_all_records_20240721--1.csv 34.70mb Jul 21, 2024 Jan 14, 2025 11:30:47 AM Public
Comma-delimited text file suitable for reading into R and Python.