Getting the Best Fit?

Title

Getting the Best Fit?

Creator(s)

Wilcock, John D.

Editor(s)

Dingwall, Lucie

Exon, Sally

Gaffney, Vince

Laflin, Susan

van Leusen, Martijn

Date

1997

Is Part Of

Archaeology in the Age of the Internet, CAA97, Proceed- ings of the 25th Anniversary Conference (Birmingham 1997)

In Series

BAR International Serie

Pages

37-71

Language

eng

Publisher

ArchaeoPress

Place Published

Oxford

URI

cock_caa_1997

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/6EKGEW49/item-list

Abstract

The paper catalogues the first 25 years of CAA contributions, from diverse authors, institutions and countries, to statistical techniques in archaeology, including data analysis, Numerical Taxonomy, Similarity Studies, Factor Analysis, Principal Components Analysis, Correspondence Analysis, Multivariate Statistics, Matrix analysis, Regression, Pottery Quantification, Shape Coding, Cluster Analysis, Seriation, Multidimensional Scaling, Correlation of dating measurements, Simulation, Computer Modelling and archaeological theory, Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Stratigraphical Analysis, Spatial Analysis and Geographical Information Systems. The introduction briefly covers seminal achievements to the discipline of computing archaeology before the advent of CAA in 1973.

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Funerary archaeology and digital technologies: history and development of a successful cross-disciplinary approach