This is an R script that replicates the settlement simulations presented in: Dewar, Robert E. "Incorporating Variation in Occupation Span into Settlement-Pattern Analysis." American Antiquity 56, no. 4 (1991): 604-20.
The Full script automates the analysis from the csv to the simulation modelling and expects consistently formatted site level data in numeric format in a csv. --example to be provided
The Manual script contains only the Monte Carlo model and requires manual input of calculated settlement and abandonment, etc. rates and only