id
	10314
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/10314
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Formally defining the time-space-archaeological culture relation: problems and prospects
Creator
	Hermon, Sorin
	Niccolucci, Franco
Date
	2017
Language
	eng
Rights
	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Abstract
	Locating archaeological cultures in time and space is a major challenge of archaeological research. Despite more than a century of scientific research in archaeology, a satisfactory solution has yet to be proposed. Past attempts to look into the problem focused on sharpening the definition of types of material culture artefacts, a more accurate chronological dating of such objects, various probabilistic methods or GIS solution for defining the time-space borders of archaeological cultures. However, the proposed approaches did not fully consider how the nature of archaeological cultures and their consequent dating and geographic positioning play a crucial role in assigning spatio-temporal borders. We propose to shift the operating logical paradigm in archaeology, from a crisp, Aristotelian-based logic, to fuzzy logic, in our opinion more suitable for reasoning in archaeology. We also introduce the rough sets theory to deal with chronological and geographic positioning of archaeological cultures. Both concepts have, in our opinion, substantial advantages over the traditional algebra and logic rules (implicitly) applied so far.
Is Part Of
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/2002
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.19282/ac.28.1.2017.06
Issue
	1
Pages
	93-108
Short title
	Formally defining the time-space-archaeological culture relation
Uri
	https://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/articles/899
Volume
	28
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/LXX628JW/item-list

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