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A Contribution to the History of Seriation in Archaeology
- Title
- A Contribution to the History of Seriation in Archaeology
- Creator(s)
- Ihm, Peter
- Editor(s)
- Weihs, Claus
- Gaul, Wolfgang
- Date
- 2005
- Is Part Of
- Classification — the Ubiquitous Challenge. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Con- ference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V. (Dortmund 2004)
- Pages
- 307-316
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Springer
- Place Published
- Berlin, Heidelberg
- ISBN
- 978-3-540-28084-2
- Abstract
- The honour to be the first who published the seriation of archaeological finds by formal methods is attributed by David Kendall (1964) to Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie (1899). According to Harold Driver (1965), an American anthropologist, the earliest numerical seriation studies are those of Kidder (1915), Kroeber (1916), and Spier (1917). It seems, however, that a general acceptance of formal seriation methods did not begin until the pioneering publications of Ford and Willey (1949) and G. W. Brainerd (1951) and W. S. Robinson (1951). Hole and Shaw published an algorithm for permutation search (1967), Elisséeff's (1965) and Goldmann's (1968) methods leading finally to correspondence analysis.
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