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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Main Authors: Horn Christian, Green Ashely, Skärström Victor Wåhlstrand, Lindhé Cecilia, Peternell Mark, Ling Johan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-12-01
Series:Open Archaeology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0277