Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts.
The study of artifacts is fundamental to archaeological research. The features of individual artifacts are recorded, analyzed, and compared within and between contextual assemblages. Here we present and make available for academic-use Artifact3-D, a new software package comprised of a suite of analy...
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| author | Leore Grosman Antoine Muller Itamar Dag Hadas Goldgeier Ortal Harush Gadi Herzlinger Keren Nebenhaus Francesco Valetta Talia Yashuv Nir Dick |
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| description | The study of artifacts is fundamental to archaeological research. The features of individual artifacts are recorded, analyzed, and compared within and between contextual assemblages. Here we present and make available for academic-use Artifact3-D, a new software package comprised of a suite of analysis and documentation procedures for archaeological artifacts. We introduce it here, alongside real archaeological case studies to demonstrate its utility. Artifact3-D equips its users with a range of computational functions for accurate measurements, including orthogonal distances, surface area, volume, CoM, edge angles, asymmetry, and scar attributes. Metrics and figures for each of these measurements are easily exported for the purposes of further analysis and illustration. We test these functions on a range of real archaeological case studies pertaining to tool functionality, technological organization, manufacturing traditions, knapping techniques, and knapper skill. Here we focus on lithic artifacts, but the Artifact3-D software can be used on any artifact type to address the needs of modern archaeology. Computational methods are increasingly becoming entwined in the excavation, documentation, analysis, database creation, and publication of archaeological research. Artifact3-D offers functions to address every stage of this workflow. It equips the user with the requisite toolkit for archaeological research that is accurate, objective, repeatable and efficient. This program will help archaeological research deal with the abundant material found during excavations and will open new horizons in research trajectories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f82fc720f1f74180bffb21eae2391bb02022-12-22T03:00:40ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-01176e026840110.1371/journal.pone.0268401Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts.Leore GrosmanAntoine MullerItamar DagHadas GoldgeierOrtal HarushGadi HerzlingerKeren NebenhausFrancesco ValettaTalia YashuvNir DickThe study of artifacts is fundamental to archaeological research. The features of individual artifacts are recorded, analyzed, and compared within and between contextual assemblages. Here we present and make available for academic-use Artifact3-D, a new software package comprised of a suite of analysis and documentation procedures for archaeological artifacts. We introduce it here, alongside real archaeological case studies to demonstrate its utility. Artifact3-D equips its users with a range of computational functions for accurate measurements, including orthogonal distances, surface area, volume, CoM, edge angles, asymmetry, and scar attributes. Metrics and figures for each of these measurements are easily exported for the purposes of further analysis and illustration. We test these functions on a range of real archaeological case studies pertaining to tool functionality, technological organization, manufacturing traditions, knapping techniques, and knapper skill. Here we focus on lithic artifacts, but the Artifact3-D software can be used on any artifact type to address the needs of modern archaeology. Computational methods are increasingly becoming entwined in the excavation, documentation, analysis, database creation, and publication of archaeological research. Artifact3-D offers functions to address every stage of this workflow. It equips the user with the requisite toolkit for archaeological research that is accurate, objective, repeatable and efficient. This program will help archaeological research deal with the abundant material found during excavations and will open new horizons in research trajectories.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268401 |
| spellingShingle | Leore Grosman Antoine Muller Itamar Dag Hadas Goldgeier Ortal Harush Gadi Herzlinger Keren Nebenhaus Francesco Valetta Talia Yashuv Nir Dick Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. PLoS ONE |
| title | Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. |
| title_full | Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. |
| title_fullStr | Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. |
| title_short | Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. |
| title_sort | artifact3 d new software for accurate objective and efficient 3d analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268401 |
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