Data for D-PLACE.

Research that uses data from D-PLACE should cite both the original source(s) of the data and the paper by Kirby et al. in which D-PLACE was first presented e.g., for research using cultural data from the Binford Hunter-Gatherer dataset:

Binford (2001); Binford and Johnson (2006); Kirby et al. (2016).

The reference list should include the date the data were accessed and URL for D-PLACE, in addition to the full references for Binford (2001), Binford and Johnson (2006), and Kirby et al. (2016).

See the list of releases for available released versions of D-PLACE data.

To install pydplace you need a python installation on your system, running python 2.7 or >3.4. Run

python setup.py develop

on the top level of this repository to install the requirements, pydplace and the command line interface dplace.

Command line functionality is implemented via sub-commands of dplace. The list of available sub-commands can be inspected running

$ dplace --help
usage: deplace [-h] [--verbosity VERBOSITY] [--log-level LOG_LEVEL]
                 [--repos REPOS]
                 command ...
...

Use 'dplace help <cmd>' to get help about individual commands.

D-PLACE data can also be accessed programmatically. All functionality is mediated through an instance of pydplace.api.Repos, e.g.

>>> from pydplace.api import Repos
>>> api = Repos('.')
>>> print(api)
<D-PLACE data repos v1.0-296-gb6f975e at .>