Mathematics and Archaeology

Mathematics and Archaeology
Author: Juan A. Barcelo
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1482226820

Although many archaeologists have a good understanding of the basics in computer science, statistics, geostatistics, modeling, and data mining, more literature is needed about the advanced analysis in these areas. This book aids archaeologists in learning more advanced tools and methods while also helping mathematicians, statisticians, and computer

Archaeology Yesterday and Today

Archaeology Yesterday and Today
Author: Jaroslav Malina
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1990-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521319775

This book, first published in 1990, presents a radical interpretation by Czech philosophers of science of the philosophical, social and political forces shaping archaeology from antiquity onwards. It provides a theoretically sophisticated and cosmopolitan overview of modern archaeology, treating the history of both traditions in a single framework.

Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory

Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
Author: Michael B Schiffer
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1483214796

Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 1 presents the progressive explorations in methods and theory in archeology. This book discusses the strategy for appraising significance, which is needed to maximize the preservation and wise use of cultural resources. Organized into 10 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of planning for the best long-term use of cultural resources, which is the essence of conservation archeology. This text then examines importance of the concept in cultural ecological studies. Other chapters consider the methods used in determining the density, size, and growth rate of human populations. This book discusses as well the use of demographic variables in archeological explanation. The final chapter deals with the decisions that must be made in designing a survey and to identify the alternative consequences for data recovery of various strategies. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists and planners.

Studia Meroitica 1984

Studia Meroitica 1984
Author: Sergio Donadoni
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 924
Release: 1989-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 3112718135

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Artifact Classification

Artifact Classification
Author: Dwight W Read
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315433486

Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. He then offers a methodology for producing classifications that are both salient to the cultural groups that produced them and relevant for establishing cultural categories and timelines for the archaeologist attempting to understand the relationship between material culture and ideational culture of ancient societies. This volume is valuable to upper level students and professional archaeologists across the discipline.

Classification - the Ubiquitous Challenge

Classification - the Ubiquitous Challenge
Author: Claus Weihs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540280847

The contributions in this volume represent the latest research results in the field of Classification, Clustering, and Data Analysis. Besides the theoretical analysis, papers focus on various application fields as Archaeology, Astronomy, Bio-Sciences, Business, Electronic Data and Web, Finance and Insurance, Library Science and Linguistics, Marketing, Music Science, and Quality Assurance.

What Is Archaeology?

What Is Archaeology?
Author: Paul Courbin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1988
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780226116563

Reprint. Originally published in 1982 by Payot, Paris. Courbin emphatically argues that the primary task of archaeology is the establishment of facts--stratigraphies, time sequences, and identifications of tools, bones, potsherds--and that archaeology is a distinct discipline, separate from history and anthropology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Seriation in Combinatorial and Statistical Data Analysis

Seriation in Combinatorial and Statistical Data Analysis
Author: Israël César Lerman
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2022-03-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303092694X

This monograph offers an original broad and very diverse exploration of the seriation domain in data analysis, together with building a specific relation to clustering. Relative to a data table crossing a set of objects and a set of descriptive attributes, the search for orders which correspond respectively to these two sets is formalized mathematically and statistically. State-of-the-art methods are created and compared with classical methods and a thorough understanding of the mutual relationships between these methods is clearly expressed. The authors distinguish two families of methods: Geometric representation methods Algorithmic and Combinatorial methods Original and accurate methods are provided in the framework for both families. Their basis and comparison is made on both theoretical and experimental levels. The experimental analysis is very varied and very comprehensive. Seriation in Combinatorial and Statistical Data Analysis has a unique character in the literature falling within the fields of Data Analysis, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. It will be a valuable resource for students and researchers in the latter fields.