This repository hosts the R code scripts and datasets that allow reproducibility and replicability of the intra-site spatial analyses implemented in the paper: Rabuñal, J.R., Gómez-Puche, M., Polo-Díaz, A., Fernández-López de Pablo, J., 2022. Unraveling Early Holocene occupation histories at open-air sites through integrated chronological, archaeostratigraphical, lithic refitting and spatial analyses: the Arenal de la Virgen (Villena, Alicante) study case. SocArXiv. Contents: AV_Spatial_database.xlsx: main dataset for the intra-site spatial analysis. AV_Lcross_database.xlsx: dataset for the implementation of the cross-type L function. AV_2clusters.rds: dataset for the calculation of the artifact metrics. AV_MovingWindow_Results.csv: dataset with the results of the calculation of the Burnt Microdebris Index and its spatial autocorrelation analysis. AV_DBSCAN_Separation.R: R file containing the code used for the separation of the lithic spatial distribution using the DBSCAN automated density-based clustering algorithm. AV_Spatial_analysis.R: R file containing the code used for the intra-site spatial analysis. AV_MWA_Moran.R: R file containing the code for implementing the calculation and spatial autocorrelation analysis of the Burnt Microdebris Index.

This work was developed within the PALEODEM project, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ref. ERC-CoG 2015-683018), granted to JFLdP. JRR is currently supported by a Margarita Salas fellowship (ref. MARSALAS21-22) funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU, the Spanish Ministry of Universities and the University of Alicante. JFLdP is additionally supported by the Plan Gen-T program (ref. CIDEGENT-18/040) from the Generalitat Valenciana. APD is currently supported by a María Zambrano fellowship funded by the the European Union-Next Generation EU and the Spanish Ministry of Universities.