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ananke

Project Status: WIP – Initial development is in progress, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release suitable for the public.

Overview

ananke provides functions for simple radiocarbon calibration and chronological analysis.

To cite ananke in publications use:

Frerebeau N (2024). ananke: Quantitative Chronology in Archaeology. Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Pessac, France. R package version 0.0.1, https://packages.tesselle.org/ananke/.

This package is a part of the tesselle project https://www.tesselle.org.

Installation

You can install the released version of ananke from CRAN with:

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("tesselle/ananke")

Usage 

## Load packages
library(ananke)
## Data from Bosch et al. 2015
data("ksarakil")

## Calibrate multiple dates
cal <- c14_calibrate(
  values = ksarakil$date,
  errors = ksarakil$error,
  names = ksarakil$code,
  curves = "marine13",
  reservoir_offsets = 53,
  reservoir_errors = 43,
  from = 50000, to = 0
)

## Plot
plot(cal)


## Full text description
describe(cal, fill = TRUE)
#> Sample GrA-53005 is dated to 26157 +/- 137 BP, calibrated to [-28476,-27542] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-54848 is dated to 28757 +/- 137 BP, calibrated to [-30839,-29739] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-53006 is dated to 34257 +/- 234 BP, calibrated to [-36922,-35609] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-57545 is dated to 35827 +/- 264 BP, calibrated to [-38740,-37393] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-54847 is dated to 39857 +/- 372 BP, calibrated to [-41933,-40649] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-57544 is dated to 35907 +/- 234 BP, calibrated to [-38768,-37556] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-57598 is dated to 37267 +/- 273 BP, calibrated to [-39990,-38963] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-57599 is dated to 39837 +/- 313 BP, calibrated to [-41790,-40694] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-53001 is dated to 34037 +/- 224 BP, calibrated to [-36675,-35233] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-54846 is dated to 39797 +/- 343 BP, calibrated to [-41810,-40639] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-57602 is dated to 36677 +/- 244 BP, calibrated to [-39505,-38379] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-57603 is dated to 38207 +/- 264 BP, calibrated to [-40554,-39758] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-57542 is dated to 36237 +/- 244 BP, calibrated to [-39133,-37913] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-53004 is dated to 39337 +/- 333 BP, calibrated to [-41350,-40380] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-57597 is dated to 39987 +/- 343 BP, calibrated to [-42004,-40765] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Sample GrA-53000 is dated to 40497 +/- 353 BP, calibrated to [-42453,-41109] CE 
#> (95.4% HPD interval) with marine13 (marine reservoir offset: 53 +/- 43; Reimer e
#> t al. 2013).
#> 
#> 
#> Calibration was computed with R 4.4.1 (R Core Team 2024) and package ananke 0.0.1 (Frerebeau 2024).
  • Bchron enables quick calibration of radiocarbon dates, age-depth modelling, relative sea level rate estimation, and non-parametric phase modelling.
  • racarbon includes functions not only for basic calibration, uncalibration, and plotting of one or more dates, but also a statistical framework for building demographic and related longitudinal inferences from aggregate radiocarbon date lists.
  • rintcal consists of a data compilation of the IntCal radiocarbon calibration curves and provides a number of functions to assist with calibrating dates and plotting calibration curves.

Contributing

Please note that the ananke project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.