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This table contains the quantities of each pottery class at each site identified during archaeological surveys in Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India. The data is arranged according to the archaeological sites. For each site, the number of sherds and the MNI count are presented.

A descriptive and illustrated list of the vessel forms identified and defined during the analysis of archaeological ceramics collected during archaeological surveys of Vidarbha in 2016.

A descriptive and illustrated list of the fabric groups identified and defined during the analysis of archaeological ceramics collected during archaeological surveys of Vidarbha in 2016.

This dataset comprises the results of regional archaeological surveys carried out in Vidarbha in 2016 under the directorship of Dr. Riza Abbas, INHCRF, with official permission granted by the Archaeological Survey of India. This upload contains the following data groups: photographs, site plans, and written records of all archaeological sites and remains encountered during survey. This dataset is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY). For the terms of the licence see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode If reused, please cited as: Abbas, R., Toraskar, S. and Hawles, J. (2020). The Archaeology of Vidarbha, Maharashtra: 2016 Regional Survey Data. Dataset. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3668997. For further information about this dataset, including details of the context, methods used to collected data, and ways in which they can be reused, see: Abbas, R., Toraskar, S. and Hawkes, J. (2020 Under Review). Multi-period regional survey data from Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India. Journal of Open Archaeological Data.

This dataset comprises details of known archaeological sites and remains in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India, dating between the Megalithic and Medieval periods. For further details of these data and the files contained within this dataset, see the readme file enclosed: Vidarbha_Archaeology_Readme.txt This dataset is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY). For legal terms of the licence see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode If reused, data should be cited as: Hawkes, J., Abbas, R., Casile, A., Lefrancq, C. and Toraskar, S. (2020). The Archaeology of Vidarbha, Maharashtra: A Census of Known Sites and Remains (Megalithic to Medieval). Dataset. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3667657. For further information about these data, the methods used to collect them and their analyses, please see: Hawkes, J. and Casile, A. 2020 (under review). Back to Basics: Returning to the Evidence and Mapping Knowledge in South Asian Archaeology. Asian Archaeology.

The geologic time scale for the Cenozoic Era has been notably improved over the last decades by virtue of integrated stratigraphy, combining high-resolution astrochronologies, biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy with high-precision radioisotopic dates. However, the middle Eocene remains a weak link. The so-called "Eocene time scale gap" reflects the scarcity of suitable study sections with clear astronomically-forced variations in carbonate content, primarily because large parts of the oceans were starved of carbonate during the Eocene greenhouse. International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 369 cored a carbonate-rich sedimentary sequence of Eocene age in the Mentelle Basin (Site U1514, offshore southwest Australia). The sequence consists of nannofossil chalk and exhibits rhythmic clay content variability. Here, we show that IODP Site U1514 allows for the extraction of an astronomical signal and the construction of an Eocene astrochronology, using 3-cm resolution X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) core scans. The XRF-derived ratio between calcium and iron content (Ca/Fe) tracks the lithologic variability and serves as the basis for our U1514 astrochronology. We present a 16 million-year-long (40-56 Ma) nearly continuous history of Eocene sedimentation with variations paced by eccentricity and obliquity. We supplement the high-resolution XRF data with low-resolution bulk carbon and oxygen isotopes, recording the long-term cooling trend from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM - ca. 56 Ma) into the middle Eocene (ca. 40 Ma). Our early Eocene astrochronology corroborates existing chronologies based on deep-sea sites and Italian land sections. For the middle Eocene, the sedimentological record at U1514 provides a single-site geochemical backbone and thus offers a further step towards a fully integrated Cenozoic geologic time scale at orbital resolution.

This dataset contains key characteristics about the data described in the Data Descriptor Chronicles of nature calendar, a long-term and large-scale multitaxon database on phenology. Contents: 1. human readable metadata summary table in CSV format 2. machine readable metadata file in JSON format Versioning Note:Version 2 was generated when the metadata format was updated from JSON to JSON-LD. This was an automatic process that changed only the format, not the contents, of the metadata.

Concentrations of magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca) and chlorine (Cl) measured in the 2015 RECAP ice core by inductive coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICPMS) along the 120,000 year-record. Note that the three analytes have not been measured continuously.Note that the below 562 meters the ice has not been dated.

Concentrations of sodium (Na), bromine (Br), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) and chlorine (Cl) measured in the 2015 RECAP ice core by inductive coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICPMS) along the 120,000 year-record, as well as the sea-salt sodium (ssNa) calculations are presented. In the 0-8 kyr b2015 section only the Br and Na series are presented, as 100-yr averages. Note that the Holocene section from 0 to 8200 yr b2015 are 100-yr averages.Note that the below 562 meters the ice has not been dated.

Higher time-resolution (ca. 20-240 yrs) measurements of Br and Na, as well as ssNa calculations, during the last deglaciation.