7 ppl attended
Talk by Lucy Timbrell
Timbrell, L., Grove, M., Manica, A. et al. A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework for the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa. Sci Rep 12, 3689 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07742-y
explicit model for precipitation and temperature at Middle Stone Age sites during several interglacial phases
reconstructs changes in behaviour and use of ecotones
all code in R
data and code online at https://osf.io/y98rq/
used data from: https://osf.io/8n43x
go read it.
Discussion
preprint on research square got one comment, which came too late to be incorporated into revised version
preprints can speed up the scientific progress, if accepted and read
there’s a new package {pastclim} that makes using paleoclimatic data easier
huge files for paleoclimatic reconstructions sometimes make handling difficult
using only two variables made this easier
why use Github and not OSF.io?
they do different things:
Github shines when used collaboratively to develop code
OSF.io is a good place for long term storage of data and code
great open work:
links between published paper and code / data online in both directions
small introduction how to run the code at the beginning of script
use of long term archive OSF
