This paper describes some statistical analyses of a particular archaeological material (pottery) originating at some sites in the city of Tours. An important part of the archaeological study of pottery is the comparison of ceramic assemblages to establish the absolute dates of contexts. In this paper, a statistical model is built to assess this comparison. The statistical procedure uses classical tools (correspondence analysis, linear regression and resampling methods) in an iterative scheme. Archaeologists may find in the paper a useful set of known statistical methods, while statisticians can learn a method of 'arranging' well-known techniques. No method is new, but their combination is characteristic of this application.
Abstract. Ceramic and Chronology. From Factory Analysis to linear Model : of tours. Building Sites of Tours. This article extends the findings of a first study presented in Histoire & Mesure on the Tours building sites in the medieval and modern periods, entitled « Quantitative and Statistical Methods of Analysis of Tours Ceramics ». It was presented at the UMR 6575 seminar « Archeology and Territory ». Its aim is to present a stastical approach suitable for addressing the problem of modeling in the study of ceramics. The approach is applied to an issue of dating ceramics found in several building sites of Tours across an extended period running from the late Middle Ages to the modern area.
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