Resources

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FAL provides various resources for performing archaeological research. These resources are made feely available for use and distribution, and make use of freely available, open-source tools. All resources are available as-is. We do not provide technical or trouble-shooting support.

Tutorials

• Drafting an article manuscript using LibreOffice Writer
• Bibliography management with JabRef
• Spreadsheets with LibreOffice Calc
• Basic statistical programming with R
• Basic image editing with Gimp

Code

• Radiocarbon calibration
  Used to quickly return calibrated radiocarbon dates with violin plots using Bchron calibration package as implemented in R statistical computing language.
  


• Photo Point Picker
  Used to derive ground-control point image coordinates from photographs and pair them with real-world coordinates for use in OpenDroneMap. R statistical computing language.
• JabRef style files (see Bibliography management tutorial on this page)
  • American Anthropologist
  • Society for American Archaeology journals
  • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
  • Journal of Archaeological Research
  • Journal of Archaeological Science journals
  • Nature journals
  • PLoS journals
  • Royal Society journals
  • Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journals

Research collections

• Lithic cast collection (coming soon)
  


• Lithic raw material collection (coming soon)