id
	10354
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/10354
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	The quantification of spatio-temporal distributions of archaeological data: from counts to frequencies
Creator
	Achino, Katia Francesca
	Capuzzo, Giacomo
Date
	2015
Language
	eng
Rights
	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Abstract
	Traces of past social actions, detectable in the archaeological record, are the material evidence through which we can infer social and economic patterns of ancient societies. These categories can be investigated in both time and space using a probabilistic statistical approach. In an attempt to quantify the results of archaeological processes we distinguish the terms of count and frequency, which is not common in archaeology, focusing particularly on the latter. In this framework we are able to calculate the number of times a certain event took place in relation to the length of the time interval during which the event is repeated. In addition, the statistical tools allow us to understand if the observable material evidence is the result of a particular archaeological phenomenon (accumulation) that can fit a statistical distribution or process (Poisson process and multivariate normal distribution).
Is Part Of
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/2002
Pages
	59–75
Uri
	http://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/id.php?id=783
Volume
	26
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/IUBWMVRH/item-list

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