A Boat Is a Boat Is a Boat…Unless It Is a Horse – Rethinking the Role of Typology
Today, it is widely accepted that typology is a biased and inconsistent attempt to classify archaeological material based on the similarity of a predefined set of features. In this respect, machine learning (ML) works similar to typology. ML approaches are often deployed because it is thought that t...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2022-12-01
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Series: | Open Archaeology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0277 |