Morphometric analyses reveal insights on ancient date palm seed characteristics, enhancing understanding of agriculture in the Southern Levant.
The script reproduces the morphometric analyses performed on archaeological and modern date palm seeds, including data preparation, size and shape analyses, principal component analyses, morphotype classification, statistical testing, and figure generation. All analyses were conducted in R and are presented here in a fully reproducible format.
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