Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Materials

This Element highlights the archaeology of methods developed in chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics.

Pedro A. López García (Author), Denisse L. Argote (Author), Manuel A. Torres-García (Author), Michael C. Thrun (Author)

9781009181877, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 October 2024

96 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 0.7 cm, 0.16 kg

This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These operate in both high- and low-dimensional environments and often have better results than traditional methods. The basic principles and main methods are introduced with recommendations for when to use them.

1. Introduction
2. Processing spectral data
3. Processing compositional data
4. Processing a combination of spectral and compositional data
5. Final comments
Abbreviations
References.

Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]