Compositional Analysis of Eastern Sigillata A and Related Wares from Tel Anafa (Israel)

Slane, Kathleen Warner; Elam, J. Michael; Glascock, Michael D.; Neff, Héctor

doi:10.1006/jasc.1994.1007

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“…The more sophisticated uses of the idea take into account whether or not x i belongs to the group against which its membership is being tested (e.g., Leese and Main 1994;Slane et al 1994).…”

Section: Mahalanobis Distancementioning

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Statistical Modelling of Artefact Compositional Data

Baxter

2001

Archaeometry

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Model‐based methods for clustering artefacts, given their chemical composition, often assume sampling from a mixture of multivariate normal distributions and/or make explicit assumptions about the way in which a composition is formed. It is argued that, analysed within a modelling framework, several important and apparently competing methodologies are more similar than would initially appear. The opportunity is taken to note that models for populations are often not compatible with models for compositions, and that dilution correction—which can be accomplished in a variety of ways—can be interpreted as an attempt to resolve this problem.

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Section: Mahalanobis Distancementioning

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Statistical Modelling of Artefact Compositional Data

Baxter

2001

Archaeometry

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“…This additional assumption brings the method within the realm of model‐based clustering. An example of the approach ‘in action’, with some refinements, is given in Slane et al (1994), with critical commentary provided in Baxter (2003, 98–9).…”

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A Review of Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition in Archaeometry*

Baxter

2006

Archaeometry

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Principal component, cluster and discriminant analysis are multivariate statistical methods that are widely used in archaeometry. They are examples of what are known in some literatures as unsupervised and supervised learning methods. Over the past 20 years or so, a wide variety of other learning methods have been developed that take advantage of modern computing power and, in some cases, have been designed to handle data sets more complex than those often used in archaeometric data analysis. To date, these methods have had little impact on archaeometry. This paper reviews, in a largely non‐technical manner, the ideas behind these newer methods; illustrates their use on a variety of data sets; and attempts to assess their potential for future archaeometric use.

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“…The potters of Sagalassos rationally exploited economic opportunities and in this way joined the cycle of local economic growth, evidenced from the contemporary efforts at developing the urban plan of Sagalassos and erecting a series of new public monuments (Waelkens 2002). Similar deliberate technological and organisational choices in order to better streamline the production process and improve the quality of the product have already been documented for the initial phase of production of eastern sigillata A (Slane et al 1994) and Pergamene sigillata (Meyer-Schlichtmann 1988), around the middle of the second century BC. Unlike textiles, and also glass and metals for that matter, there are no indications that clays were traded as such in order to set up a pottery production unit at a larger distance.…”

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“…Regarding our knowledge of the location of the manufacturing centres involved in the production of these types of tableware, I prefer to maintain the neutral, alphabetic designations in order to refer to regions and not localities of production. Indeed, in three of the cases the actual centre(s) of production have not been identified yet and were circumscribed to the region (Slane et al 1994;Schneider 1994;1996b;Sauer, Outschar and Schneider 1994;Daszkiewicz, Schneider and Raabe 1995;Meyza, Daszkiewicza and Raabe 1995;Rautman 1995;Rautman et al 1993;Gomez et al 1996;Lund 1997) between Tarsos and Laodikeia in the case of ESA, the Meander valley for ESB and the region of Nea Paphos for ESD. As far as ESC is concerned, a workshop quarter was excavated in the Ketios valley to the east of Pergamon (Erdemgil 1980;1981;1981b;Erdemgil and Ozenir 1982;Bounegru and Erdemgil 1998) and production waste was also excavated near ancient Pitane (Loeschcke 1912), along the coast.…”

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Comparing Ordinary Craft Production: Textile and Pottery Production in Roman Asia Minor

Poblome

2004

J Econ Soc Hist Orient

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I present in this paper a framework of description for pottery and textile manufacturing in Roman Asia Minor. The research forms part of a wider debate on the specific, but generally underestimated contribution of the production of artisans to the ancient economy. The regulatory factors and production organisation of both crafts are remarkably similar and are placed against the agricultural background of a pre-industrial society.The scholarly debate on the nature of the ancient economy illustrates the limitations of the relevant evidence and the embeddedness of the various approaches and models in contemporary scientific thinking and wider sociological conditions. Recently, the somewhat unfortunate tendency at polarising the debate between the 'Finleys' and the 'Rostovtzeffs' of the academic world (primitivist or modernist, no-trade or long-distance trade, autarky or integrated markets, technological stagnation or development, economic stagnation or growth) has been counteracted by a feeling that we need to take the value of both, not necessarily entirely incompatible, scholarly traditions on board (Saller 2002) and that, most of all, we are pressed by an increasing amount of new data into moving forward. In order to do so, deconstructing the debate has proven most useful, leading John K. Davies to the conclusion that, in fact, even the basic building block of the scientific rationale is still missing. "The entire discourse of ancient economic history" can be characterised by "the lack of a clear and generally accepted answer to the question 'What do we regard as a satisfactory framework for the description, analysis, and interpretation of economic activity in antiquity?' As things are, regrettably, much of what we write comprises 'a discourse in search of a method': much of what we say to each other ends in © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 JESHO 47,4 Also available online -www.brill.nl * Jeroen Poblome, Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, jeroen.poblome@arts.kuleuven.ac.be.

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Compositional Analysis of Eastern Sigillata A and Related Wares from Tel Anafa (Israel)

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Statistical Modelling of Artefact Compositional Data

Statistical Modelling of Artefact Compositional Data

A Review of Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition in Archaeometry*

Comparing Ordinary Craft Production: Textile and Pottery Production in Roman Asia Minor

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