Explaining the Shape, Size, Texture and Composition of Archaeological Artifacts

Juan A. Barcelo
Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
jbarcelo\@seneca.uab.es

There are lots of papers and materials on Barceló's web pages.

Lecture #1

• Association
• Categorization
• Intervention
• Conscience

Lecture #2

Shape analysis. Shape is any connected set of points:

1. localist representation is based on descriptive shape parameters
2. distributed representation is pixel-based

There are different methods for describing shape: circularity, quadrature, irregularity, elongation, size measurements. Like morphometric measurements in anthropology, we can also use curvature changes' points.

Surfaces are characterized by texture.

Sigmoid axon.

It is important to find a balance between globalisation and localisation when describing shape.

C. Reeler: settlement classification using neural networks.