A Contribution to the History of Seriation in Archaeology

Ihm, Peter

doi:10.1007/3-540-28084-7_34

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“…This can be seen as a simplification of a so-called abundance matrix which codes in each cell the (relative) frequency or quantity of an artifact type at a site. See Ihm (2005) for a comparison of incidence and abundance matrices in archeology.…”

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Getting Things in Order: An Introduction to theRPackageseriation

Hahsler¹,

Hornik²,

Buchta³

2008

J. Stat. Soft.

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Seriation, i.e., finding a suitable linear order for a set of objects given data and a loss or merit function, is a basic problem in data analysis. Caused by the problem's combinatorial nature, it is hard to solve for all but very small sets. Nevertheless, both exact solution methods and heuristics are available. In this paper we present the package seriation which provides an infrastructure for seriation with R. The infrastructure comprises data structures to represent linear orders as permutation vectors, a wide array of seriation methods using a consistent interface, a method to calculate the value of various loss and merit functions, and several visualization techniques which build on seriation. To illustrate how easily the package can be applied for a variety of applications, a comprehensive collection of examples is presented.

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“…Later, Robinson (1951), Kendall (1971) and others proposed measures of agreement between rows to quantify optimality of the resulting table. A comprehensive description of the development of seriation in archeology is presented by Ihm (2005).…”

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Getting Things in Order: An Introduction to theRPackageseriation

Hahsler¹,

Hornik²,

Buchta³

2008

J. Stat. Soft.

231

195

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“…The interpretation of the work done by Petrie will remain largely subjective, as he did not explicitly describe all the details in the papers and according to ref 42,. his notes and records were destroyed.…”

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“…Petrie's work influenced several prominent American anthropologists and archaeologists like George Andrew Reisner, Alfred Vincent Kidder, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Nels Nelson, Leslie Spier, James A. Ford (several good reviews and a discussion of such a methodological lineage include refs14,39,42,43), who applied, popularized, and further developed the methodology to better suit the practical needs for relative dating.…”

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Seriation and matrix reordering methods: An historical overview

Liiv

2010

Statistical Analysis

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Abstract:Seriation is an exploratory combinatorial data analysis technique to reorder objects into a sequence along a one-dimensional continuum so that it best reveals regularity and patterning among the whole series. Unsupervised learning, using seriation and matrix reordering, allows pattern discovery simultaneously at three information levels: local fragments of relationships, sets of organized local fragments of relationships, and an overall structural pattern. This paper presents an historical overview of seriation and matrix reordering methods, several applications from the following disciplines are included in the retrospective review: archaeology and anthropology; cartography, graphics, and information visualization; sociology and sociometry; psychology and psychometry; ecology; biology and bioinformatics; cellular manufacturing; and operations research.

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“…Building chronologies involves distinguishing between relative (providing only a chronological sequence) and absolute dating methods (that yield calendric indicators) (O'Brien & Lyman, 2002). Within relative dating, matrix seriation is a long-established method-it was first formulated by Petrie (1899)-and has allowed for the construction of reference chronologies (Ihm, 2005). For a set X of n archaeological assemblages, the seriation problem comes down to discovering in X an order inferred as chronological.…”

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tabula: An R Package for Analysis, Seriation, and Visualization of Archaeological Count Data

Frèrebeau¹

2019

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A Contribution to the History of Seriation in Archaeology

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Getting Things in Order: An Introduction to theRPackageseriation

Getting Things in Order: An Introduction to theRPackageseriation

Seriation and matrix reordering methods: An historical overview

tabula: An R Package for Analysis, Seriation, and Visualization of Archaeological Count Data

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