TY - JOUR
T1 - Bayesian classification for dating archaeological sites via projectile points
AU - Armero, Carmen
AU - García-Donato, Gonzalo
AU - Jimenez-Puerto, Joaquín
AU - Pardo-Gordó, Salvador
AU - Bernabeu Auban, Joan
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Bifacial flint arrowheads
KW - Chronological model
KW - Dirichlet-multinomial process
KW - Posterior predictive distribution
KW - Radiocarbon dating
U2 - 10.2436/20.8080.02.108
DO - 10.2436/20.8080.02.108
M3 - Article
SN - 1696-2281
SP - 33
EP - 46
JO - SORT
JF - SORT
ER -