Mathematics and archaeology

Although many archaeologists have a good understanding of the basics in computer science, statistics, geostatistics, modeling, and data mining, more literature is needed about the advanced analysis in these areas. This book aids archaeologists in learning more advanced tools and methods while also helping mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists with no previous knowledge of the field realize the potential of the methods in archaeological experiments.

Front Cover; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Introduction; 1. Measuring, Counting and Explaining: An Introduction to Mathematics in Archaeology; 2. A Short History of the Beginnings of Mathematics in Archaeology; 3. The Formal Logical Foundations of Archaeological Ontologies; 4. Statistical Reasoning and Archaeological Theorizing: The Double-Bind Problem; 5. Social Network Analysis for Sharing and Understanding Archaeology; The Mathematics of Ancient Artifacts; 6. Shape Analysis and Geometric Modelling; 7. Curvature-Based Method for the Morphometric Analysis of Archaeological Shapes. 8. Logratio Analysis in Archeometry: Principles and Methods9. An Introduction to Clustering with Applications to Archaeometry; 10. Archaeological Discriminant Applications of the Lubischew Test; 11. Phylogenetic Systematics; 12. Text Mining in Archaeology: Extracting Information from Archaeological Reports; The Mathematics of Archaeological Time and Space; 13. Time, Chronology and Classification; 14. Bayesian Approaches to the Building of Archaeological Chronologies; 15. Modelling the Effects of Post-depositional Transformations of Artifact Assemblages using Markov Chains. 16. Time and Probabilistic Reas…