Point Pattern Analysis (PPA) as a tool for reproducible archaeological site distribution analyses and location processes in early iron age south-west Germany

• Giacomo Bilotti ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gbilotti@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de

  Affiliations Institute of Pre- and Protohistory, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, CRC1266 –Scales of Transformation, Project F6 ‘Population Dynamics and Socio-environmental Transformation’, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7328-0811

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• Michael Kempf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Quaternary Geology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9474-4670

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• Eljas Oksanen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cultures, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7468-9256

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• Lizzie Scholtus,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Pre- and Protohistory, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, CRC1266 –Scales of Transformation, Project F6 ‘Population Dynamics and Socio-environmental Transformation’, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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• Oliver Nakoinz

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Pre- and Protohistory, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, CRC1266–Scales of Transformation, Project A2 ’Integrative Modelling of Socio-Environmental Dynamics’, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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