Table 2 Multiple matrix regression results for toolkit composition and raw material. Descriptions of each variable can be found in the Supplementary Methods. Statistical significance highlighted at p < 0.05 (*) or p < 0.01 (**).

From: A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework for the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa

 

Toolkit composition

Raw material

Coefficient

p

Coefficient

p

Toolkit composition

NA

NA

0.3119

0.001**

Raw material

0.1483

0.001**

NA

NA

Method

0.009

0.698

0.0351

0.192

Site type

0.0328

0.018*

− 0.0061

0.7

Simple Age

0.0184

0.668

0.149

0.007**

Cost path

0.0172

0.669

0.1991

0.001**

Altitude

− 0.09

0.473

0.2206

0.106

Roughness

0.2645

0.004**

− 0.2286

0.017*

Temperature

0.0673

0.298

− 0.0108

0.896

Precipitation

0.111

0.015*

0.1124

0.053