Illustrate Basic and Composite Allen Relations

Illustrate Basic and Composite Allen Relations

allen_illustrate(relations = "basic", ...)

Arguments

relations

A character string specifying the relation. It must be one of "basic", "concurrent", "distinct", "stratigraphic", "branching", "transformation", "reticulation", "sequence", "branch", "transform", or "reticulate" (see details).

...

Further arguments to be passed to internal methods.

Value

allen_illustrate() is called it for its side-effects: it results in a graphic being displayed.

Details

Illustrate basic and composite Allen relations for several chronological model domains with a Nokel lattice. Chronological model domains include stratigraphy and branching, transformative, and reticulate processes of artifact change.

The illustrative graphics include:

basic

the 13 basic Allen relations (default);

concurrent

concurrent relations;

distinct

relations with distinct endpoints;

stratigraphic

basic relations established by an observation of superposition;

branching

basic branching relations;

transformation

basic relations of transformation;

reticulation

basic relations of reticulation;

sequence

composite relations in a stratigraphic sequence;

branch

composite relations of branching;

transform

composite relations of transformation; or

reticulate

composite relations of reticulation.

References

Harris, E. C. (1997). Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy. Second edition. London: Academic Press.

Lyman, R. L. and O'Brien, M. J. (2017). "Sedation and Cladistics: The Difference between Anagenetic and Cladogenetic Evolution". In Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory, edited by Lipo, C. P., O'Brien, M. J., Couard, M., and Shennan, S. J. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203786376 .

Viola, T. (2020). Peirce on the Uses of History. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110651560 . See chapter 3, "Historicity as Process", especially p. 83-88.

See also

Other Allen's intervals: allen_analyze(), allen_complement(), allen_composition(), allen_converse(), allen_intersect(), allen_joint_concurrency(), allen_observe(), allen_observe_frequency(), allen_relation(), allen_relation_code(), allen_union()

Author

T. S. Dye

Examples

## Plot the basic Allen relations
allen_illustrate()