Revistes Publicacions URV: SORT - Statistics and Operations Research Transactions> 2021

Bayesian classification for dating archaeological sites via projectile points

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    Identifier:  RP:4688
    Handle:  https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/RP4688
    Authors:  Bernabeu, Joan; Pardo-Gordó, Salvador; Jimenez-Puerto, Joaquín; García-Donato, Gonzalo; Armero, Carmen
    Abstract:
    Dating is a key element for archaeologists. We propose a Bayesian approach to provide chronology to sites that have neither radiocarbon dating nor clear stratigraphy and whose only information comes from lithic arrowheads. This classifier is based on the Dirichlet-multinomial inferential process and posterior predictive distributions. The procedure is applied to predict the period of a set of undated sites located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula during the 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC.

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    Author, as appears in the article.: Bernabeu, Joan; Pardo-Gordó, Salvador; Jimenez-Puerto, Joaquín; García-Donato, Gonzalo; Armero, Carmen
    Keywords: Bifacial flint arrowheads
    Abstract: Dating is a key element for archaeologists. We propose a Bayesian approach to provide chronology to sites that have neither radiocarbon dating nor clear stratigraphy and whose only information comes from lithic arrowheads. This classifier is based on the Dirichlet-multinomial inferential process and posterior predictive distributions. The procedure is applied to predict the period of a set of undated sites located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula during the 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC.
    Journal publication year: 2021
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