These are the slides from a talk given on 2nd September 2022 by Tim Evans (Τιμ Εβανς) from Imperial College London. The talk was given as part of the The Connected Past meeting held in Heraklion, Crete.
Abstract: In this talk, we explore some of the methods needed to study the patterns in and between data sets describing artefacts found in archaeology. The focus in this talk is on entropy and in particular diversity. We illustrate this using a substantial database on Cretan ceramic assemblages put together by Dr Paula Gheorghiade. The 13000+ artefacts, from deposition sites including Knossos, are from the period 1400-1250 BCE when ‘Minoan’ ceramic characteristics are increasingly replaced by those of mainland Greece (Mycenae).
Talk describes some of the work done in a wider collaboration involving Paula Gheorghiade (ANEE, U. of Helsinki), Ray Rivers (Imperial College London), Vaiva Vasiliauskate (ETH Zurich), Henry Price (Imperial College London), Aleksandr Diachenko (U. Kyiv), Fabrice Rossi (U.Paris-Dauphine).
Abstract: In this talk, we explore some of the methods needed to study the patterns in and between data sets describing artefacts found in archaeology. The focus in this talk is on entropy and in particular diversity. We illustrate this using a substantial database on Cretan ceramic assemblages put together by Dr Paula Gheorghiade. The 13000+ artefacts, from deposition sites including Knossos, are from the period 1400-1250 BCE when ‘Minoan’ ceramic characteristics are increasingly replaced by those of mainland Greece (Mycenae).
Talk describes some of the work done in a wider collaboration involving Paula Gheorghiade (ANEE, U. of Helsinki), Ray Rivers (Imperial College London), Vaiva Vasiliauskate (ETH Zurich), Henry Price (Imperial College London), Aleksandr Diachenko (U. Kyiv), Fabrice Rossi (U.Paris-Dauphine).