GLIMR: A GIS-BASED METHOD FOR THE GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS
| Autor: | Alex Nyers, Loren G. Davis, Daniel W. Bean, David R. Brauner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Archeology
Geographic information system business.industry Computer science Generalized Procrustes analysis Pattern recognition Artifact (software development) Domain (software engineering) Software Anthropology Principal component analysis Artificial intelligence Cache business Algorithm Geometric data analysis |
| Zdroj: | Lithic Technology. 40:199-217 |
| ISSN: | 2051-6185 0197-7261 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/2051618515y.0000000007 |
| Popis: | Archaeology's participation in the digital renaissance of the twenty-first century requires adequate operationalization of technological methods, such as three-dimensional scanning. Here, we describe and demonstrate a geographic information systems-based lithic morphometric research (GLiMR) software approach. GLiMR accurately and rapidly handles a sequence of ArcGIS procedures to extract geometric morphometric data from 2D and 3D scan files that are impractical to record by hand, opening new doors to the analysis of lithic artifacts. GLiMR generates three main types of geometric properties: shape data, topographic data, and domain aggregate data. These data can be extracted in ways that support other analyses of artifact form, including generalized Procrustes analysis, principal components analysis, and cluster analyses. We illustrate the use of GLiMR by presenting a basic case study that compares the geometric morphometry of Western Stemmed Tradition projectile points found in two cache features ... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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