Morphological variability and standardisation of vessel shapes in the 2nd and first half of the first millennium BC in continental Italy

Descrizione

Volume pubblicato con i fondi del progetto:
Changes – Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society –
Project code: Pe0000020 – CUP: H53C22000860006 –
Fondazione Changes, presso Sapienza Università di Roma:
Presidente prof. Marco Mancini – Spoke 1.
Historical Landscapes, Traditions and Cultural Identities,
Spoke leader Università di Bari ‘Aldo Moro’,
coordinatore scientifico: prof. Giuliano Volpe

INDICE

Introduzione

Preface

Acknowledgements

Conventions used in this work

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 The reason for this work
1.2 The study of variability and standardization
1.3 The relationship with specialization
1.4 Historical and archaeological background, phenomena of standardisation, craft specialisation and social complexity in protohistoric and preroman Italy
1.5 Challenges and limits in the dataset and approach
1.6 Informatics and archaeology
1.7 Reflections on the approach used: digital archaeology, open data, and Big Data
1.8 Machine learning and related disciplines

Chapter 2 The dataset
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Methodology of dataset creation
2.3 Distribution maps, references, and other information
2.4 Assignment of records of uncertain chronology
2.5 AIPPD, Big Data applied in archaeology?
2.6 AIPPD: conclusions and perspectives
2.7 Timelines and time considerations for the dataset

Chapter 3 Methods
3.1 Python and AIPPA, an overview
3.2 potds: a framework for working with profiles
3.3 Features extraction: transforming images into numerical data

Chapter 4  Analysis techniques: methodologies and examples
4.1 Dimensionality reduction
4.2 Clustering algorithms
4.3 Proposal of a pipeline for the study and analysis of vessels’ profile
4.4 Traditional typology and proposed pipeline, what relationship?
4.5 Hardware used

Chapter 5 Applications
5.1 Comparison between Features extraction methods: a benchmark
5.2 Complexity in funeral urns and vascular production between EBA and AP
5.3 Standardisation analysis: a proposal of a method and its application: EBA – AP
5.4 Pottery assemblages maps
5.5 Similarity of contexts: a proposal for approaches
5.6 Reconstructing entire vessels from fragments: an ML approach

Chapter 6 General conclusions and future prospects

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