Outline of the new palaeo plotting program P4

Abstract

This short communication introduces P4, a new open source palaeo plotting program that offers a quick and intuitive method for producing publication-quality plots of data from palaeo archives. Capabilities of the program are described together with some example plots of macrofossil, testate amoebae and pollen data. Strengths of the program and areas for future development are highlighted.

Keywords

• general public license v3
• palaeo archive
• python
• visual presentation
• zenodo