id
	11364
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/11364
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Some Experiments in the Numerical Analysis of Archaeological Data
Creator
	Hodson, Frank Roy
	Sneath, Peter Hanry Andrews
	Doran, James
Date
	1966
Language
	eng
Abstract
	The value for archaeology of some available methods of numerical classification was investigated. Brooches from an Iron Age site in Switzerland (Münsingen) were chosen for analysis for two reasons: they show variation over a typically wide range of attributes, and their archaeological context, in rich associations in a horizontally stratified cemetery, provides independent evidence to check the significance of any proposed classifications. A further control on results was provided by an `intuitive' classification of the brooches by professional archaeologists. The brooches were described numerically by quantitative and qualitative characters, and a similarity coefficient was computed between each pair. These coefficients were then submitted to two forms of cluster analysis (single- and average-link) and to a multi-dimensional scaling procedure. The average-link, but not the single-link, cluster analysis and the multi-dimensional scaling procedure were found to produce classifications of demonstrable archaeological significance.
Is Part Of
	Biometrika
Cited by
	11073
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.2307/2333638
Issn
	0006-3444
Issue
	3-4
Pages
	311-324
Uri
	https://www.jstor.org/stable/2333638
Volume
	53
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/AM3Q4JTJ/item-list

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