A Digital Computer Analysis Of Palaeolithic Flint Assemblages

Doran, Jim; Hodson, F. R.

doi:10.1038/210688a0

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“…There have been several statistical attempts to evaluate the compositional integrity of the facies (Doran and Hodson 1966;Mellars 1967;Callow and Webb 1981;Freeman 1994), and they have led to contradictory results: (1) strong support for modal facies variation in France; and (2) equally strong evidence for a continuous distribution in nearby Cantabrian Spain. Most of these efforts have focused on the Mousterian of southwestern France, where there is a high density of well-excavated and published sites, and abundant flint of high quality and large package size.…”

Section: Mousterian Facies-are They Real?mentioning

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Transitions Before the Transition

Hovers¹,

Kuhn²

2006

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

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Section: Mousterian Facies-are They Real?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Transitions Before the Transition

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2006

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

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“…Applications of multidimensional scaling procedures also began to appear in the literature a half-dozen years ago (Hodson, Sneath, and Doran, 1966;Doran and Hodson, 1966), but interest has surged only in the last couple of years (e.g., Hodson, 1970;True and Matson, 1970;Ammerman, 1971). The most common direction taken has been to experiment with multidimensional scaling.…”

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The computer in archaeology: A critical survey

Whallon

1972

Comput Hum

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Eur years ago the last general review of computer applications in archaeology was published in this journal (Chenhall, 1968). At that time, it was adequate for the author to outline three studies and mention a fourth to give a representative picture of current work in this field. Since then the situation has changed dramatically. The number and variety of computer applications in archaeology today are so great that it is virtually impossible to select any small number of individual projects as representative. Instead, entire areas of research must be covered in a general discussion, and a simple listing of current projects would probably be longer than this entire article.Archaeology is now fully in a period of experimenting with the computer and gradually adopting it as one of its major tools for research. Characteristic of this period is a healthy concern with the data and the manipulative, analytical, and statistical methods which the computer makes it possible to apply in archaeological research. Healthy, because most archaeologists have grasped the point, recently made by Chenhall (1971a:4-5), that the computer is simply a fast and powerful machine. Although it permits many previously impossible things, it cannot perform miracles on its own. A full and conscious awareness of precisely what is being done in the computer in any analysis is therefore absolutely essential for archaeologically sensible and meaningful use.The growing concern in archaeology with the new methods made possible by computers is reflected in the increasing size, frequency, and importance of sessions on analytical and statistical methods at professional meetings. Indeed, in each of the three years that have passed since Chenhall's review article in this journal, a special meeting has been held, devoted only to such problems:

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“…Doran & Hodson, 1966). An example of a set of artifacts would be the La Tene brooches analysed below, which may be treated individually and described according to a list of features.…”

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Some Experiments in the Numerical Analysis of Archaeological Data

Hodson¹,

Sneath²,

Doran³

1966

Biometrika

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Biometrika Trust is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Biometrika. SUMMARYThe value for archaeology of some available methods of numerical classification was investigated. Brooches from an Iron Age site in Switzerland (Miinsingen) 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. 20-2This content downloaded from 194.

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A Digital Computer Analysis Of Palaeolithic Flint Assemblages

Cited by 31 publications

References 6 publications

Transitions Before the Transition

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The computer in archaeology: A critical survey

Some Experiments in the Numerical Analysis of Archaeological Data

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