Bayesian classification for dating archaeological sites via projectile points
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2020-12-02 v1
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 IVth and IIIrd millennium cal. BC.
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@article{arxiv.2012.00657,
title = {Bayesian classification for dating archaeological sites via projectile points},
author = {Carmen Armero and Gonzalo García-Donato and Joaquín Jiménez-Puerto and Salvador Pardo-Gordó and Joan Bernabeu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00657},
year = {2020}
}
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12 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables