PANGAEA_995739 Archaeological radiocarbon ages from the Gippsland region, southeastern Australia, compiled to model relative human activity by summed probability distribution Fletcher, Michael-Shawn; Romano, Anthony Archaeological radiocarbon ages from the Gippsland region, southeastern Australia, compiled to model relative human activity by summed probability distribution 2026-07-17 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995739 Investigator Michael-Shawn Fletcher Earth Science Site Laboratory code/label Age, dated Age, dated, error geoscientificInformation archaeology gippsland Gunaikurnai Country human activity Indigenous Data Sovereignty Model OCTOPUS palaeodemography Radiocarbon dating SahulArch SE_Australia southeastern Australia summed probability distribution Age, 14C AMS Complete -38.9 -37.0 145.5 149.0 unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 864 data points text/tab-separated-values Fletcher, Michael-Shawn; et al. (submitted): Australia's current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change. Nature Saktura, Wanchese M; Munack, Henry; Codilean, Alexandru; Wood, Rachel A; Petchey, Fiona; Jacobs, Zenobia; Williams, Alan; Ulm, Sean (2021): OCTOPUS Database v.2: The SahulArch Radiocarbon collection [dataset]. ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH); University of Wollongong, https://doi.org/10.25900/2MB4-RR36

This table compiles 216 archaeological radiocarbon ages from 30 sites across the Gippsland region of southeastern Australia (Gunaikurnai Country), assembled to model relative changes in past human activity through a summed probability distribution (SPD). Ages were extracted from the SahulArch radiocarbon collection in the OCTOPUS database v.2.3 (Saktura et al. 2021) and screened by geographic region, age range, reported error, and association with archaeological deposits (contexts reported as sterile or non-occupation were excluded). The retained ages were calibrated with SHCal20 and used to compute an SPD with the rcarbon package, and Bayesian population-growth models were fitted and compared with the nimbleCarbon package in R. Each record gives a coded site identifier, laboratory code, conventional radiocarbon age (a BP) and its standard error. Archaeological site locations are deliberately withheld and provided only as obfuscated identifiers, in accordance with Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) principles and Indigenous Data Sovereignty; this restriction must be maintained. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995739"!

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ns.30.120180.002253 Age, 14C AMS https://doi.org/10.25900/2MB4-RR36 OCTOPUS Database v.2: The SahulArch Radiocarbon collection PANGAEA_995756 DIF 9.4 2026-07-17 2026-07-17