Clive Orton
Biographic Data
| ID | 148865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clive Orton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clive |
| FAMILY NAME | Orton |
| SIGNATURE | ORTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Pottery in Archaeology
This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and quantitative techniques that are now available to the archaeologist, and assesses their value for answering a range of archaeological questions. It provides a manual for the basic handling and archiving of excavated pottery so that it can be used as a basis…
Medieval Novgorod
The Institute of Archaeology has begun a programme of academic collaboration with the Institutt for Arkeologi og Kulturhistorie in Trondheim, Norway. One of the first initiatives to be taken is a comparative study of facial representation in Viking art. A member of the research team outlines the project
The sherds tell a story
Fragments of pottery are among the most frequently encountered remains recovered in the course of archaeological excavations, but their potential as sources of evidence is seldom fully explored. Here, pottery from a Romano-British site in the London area is discussed as an example of what can be learned about pottery production through a numerical approach to the evidence
Horse kicks, flying bombs and potsherds
In the application of statistics in archaeology, it is essential to choose an appropriate statistical model for the specific archaeological problem being addressed. This article discusses the application of statistical models to large-scale archaeological field survey and describes the development of software (sherdnav) designed to guide fieldwalkers to where they should look next, once they have surveyed all the primary spots in a block, and its…
Mathematical Modelling
The field of mathematical modelling is long established in archaeology, and since the 1970s has been frequently associated with computing through the development of increasingly complex methodologies ranging from large-scale simulations to Bayesian statistics. This article looks at the background and use of these models, and asks why there has been an apparent downturn in their use. A distrinction between 'tactical' and 'strategic' models is draw…
The sherds tell a story
Sampling in Archaeology
The first overview of sampling for archaeologists for over twenty years, this manual offers a comprehensive account of the applications of statistical sampling theory which are essential to modern archaeological practice at a range of scales, from the regional to the microscopic. Bringing archaeologists up to date with an aspect of their work which is often misunderstood, it includes a discussion of the relevance of sampling theory to archaeologi…
Medieval Novgorod
Unbaked Urns of Rudely Shape’
(1997). ‘Unbaked Urns of Rudely Shape’: Essays on British and Irish Pottery for Ian Longworth. Edited by I. Kinnes and G. Varndell. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 312-312
Testing Significance or Testing Credulity
The paper examines two recent attempts to analyse a set of data relating to Icenian coin hoards. The methodology of the second attempt, which is based on significance tests made on 'permillia' data (i.e. coins per thousand), is shown to be fatally flawed, and its conclusions unfounded. The danger of using analytical statistical techniques without consideration of the assumptions on which they are based, is stressed. Alternative approaches, one an…
A New Statistical Tool for Comparing Animal Bone Assemblages
Pottery in Archaeology
How Many Pots Make Five?—an Historical Review of Pottery Quantification
This paper reviews the ways in which assemblages of pottery have been quantified throughout the twentieth century, and the use to which such data have been put. The values of various ways of quantifying pottery are compared, and a theoretical basis for the comparison of assemblages is described. Finally, the practical steps that need to be taken to make best use of the theory are set out
An investigation of the fractal properties of flint microwear images
Similarities Between Sculptures Using Jaccard's Coefficient int he Study of Aztec Tlaltecuhtli
This paper is part of an appendix of a Ph.D. dissertation which was submitted in Sepetember 1989 (Baquedano 1989). One chapter of the thesis argues that the Aztec earth deity (Tlaltecuhtli) was represented iconographically in two ways
Short Reviews
Data processing in archaeology
Stochastic process and archaeological mechanism in spatial analysis
Computer simulation experiments to assess the performance of measures of quantity of pottery
Reasons for quantifying pottery, and the various measures of quantity that are available, are reviewed, leading to a statement of the criteria that such measures should satisfy. Two new models for the breakage and retrieval of pottery ‐ Kirby processes and recursive sampling — are presented, and fitted to large groups of post‐medieval pottery from a site at Aldgate, City of London. These models are used to assess the performance of four measures …
Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Archaeological distribution maps: a quantified approach and associated problems 3. Point pattern analysis 4. Some models for settlement patterns 5. The distribution of single artefact types 6. The association between distributions 7. The relationship between sites and other features 8. Conclusion Appendix Index
Pottery in Archaeology
This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and quantitative techniques that are now available to the archaeologist, and assesses their value for answering a range of archaeological questions. It provides a manual for the basic handling and archiving of excavated pottery so that it can be used as a basis…
Computer simulation experiments to assess the performance of measures of quantity of pottery
Reasons for quantifying pottery, and the various measures of quantity that are available, are reviewed, leading to a statement of the criteria that such measures should satisfy. Two new models for the breakage and retrieval of pottery ‐ Kirby processes and recursive sampling — are presented, and fitted to large groups of post‐medieval pottery from a site at Aldgate, City of London. These models are used to assess the performance of four measures …
An investigation of the fractal properties of flint microwear images
Stochastic process and archaeological mechanism in spatial analysis
A New Statistical Tool for Comparing Animal Bone Assemblages
Data processing in archaeology
Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Archaeological distribution maps: a quantified approach and associated problems 3. Point pattern analysis 4. Some models for settlement patterns 5. The distribution of single artefact types 6. The association between distributions 7. The relationship between sites and other features 8. Conclusion Appendix Index
Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Stochastic process and archaeological mechanism in spatial analysis
Computer simulation experiments to assess the performance of measures of quantity of pottery
Reasons for quantifying pottery, and the various measures of quantity that are available, are reviewed, leading to a statement of the criteria that such measures should satisfy. Two new models for the breakage and retrieval of pottery ‐ Kirby processes and recursive sampling — are presented, and fitted to large groups of post‐medieval pottery from a site at Aldgate, City of London. These models are used to assess the performance of four measures …
Data processing in archaeology
Short Reviews
Similarities Between Sculptures Using Jaccard's Coefficient int he Study of Aztec Tlaltecuhtli
This paper is part of an appendix of a Ph.D. dissertation which was submitted in Sepetember 1989 (Baquedano 1989). One chapter of the thesis argues that the Aztec earth deity (Tlaltecuhtli) was represented iconographically in two ways
An investigation of the fractal properties of flint microwear images
How Many Pots Make Five?—an Historical Review of Pottery Quantification
This paper reviews the ways in which assemblages of pottery have been quantified throughout the twentieth century, and the use to which such data have been put. The values of various ways of quantifying pottery are compared, and a theoretical basis for the comparison of assemblages is described. Finally, the practical steps that need to be taken to make best use of the theory are set out
Pottery in Archaeology
A New Statistical Tool for Comparing Animal Bone Assemblages
Unbaked Urns of Rudely Shape’
(1997). ‘Unbaked Urns of Rudely Shape’: Essays on British and Irish Pottery for Ian Longworth. Edited by I. Kinnes and G. Varndell. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 312-312
Testing Significance or Testing Credulity
The paper examines two recent attempts to analyse a set of data relating to Icenian coin hoards. The methodology of the second attempt, which is based on significance tests made on 'permillia' data (i.e. coins per thousand), is shown to be fatally flawed, and its conclusions unfounded. The danger of using analytical statistical techniques without consideration of the assumptions on which they are based, is stressed. Alternative approaches, one an…
Medieval Novgorod
Sampling in Archaeology
The first overview of sampling for archaeologists for over twenty years, this manual offers a comprehensive account of the applications of statistical sampling theory which are essential to modern archaeological practice at a range of scales, from the regional to the microscopic. Bringing archaeologists up to date with an aspect of their work which is often misunderstood, it includes a discussion of the relevance of sampling theory to archaeologi…
The sherds tell a story
Mathematical Modelling
The field of mathematical modelling is long established in archaeology, and since the 1970s has been frequently associated with computing through the development of increasingly complex methodologies ranging from large-scale simulations to Bayesian statistics. This article looks at the background and use of these models, and asks why there has been an apparent downturn in their use. A distrinction between 'tactical' and 'strategic' models is draw…
Horse kicks, flying bombs and potsherds
In the application of statistics in archaeology, it is essential to choose an appropriate statistical model for the specific archaeological problem being addressed. This article discusses the application of statistical models to large-scale archaeological field survey and describes the development of software (sherdnav) designed to guide fieldwalkers to where they should look next, once they have surveyed all the primary spots in a block, and its…
Medieval Novgorod
The Institute of Archaeology has begun a programme of academic collaboration with the Institutt for Arkeologi og Kulturhistorie in Trondheim, Norway. One of the first initiatives to be taken is a comparative study of facial representation in Viking art. A member of the research team outlines the project
The sherds tell a story
Fragments of pottery are among the most frequently encountered remains recovered in the course of archaeological excavations, but their potential as sources of evidence is seldom fully explored. Here, pottery from a Romano-British site in the London area is discussed as an example of what can be learned about pottery production through a numerical approach to the evidence
Pottery in Archaeology
This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and quantitative techniques that are now available to the archaeologist, and assesses their value for answering a range of archaeological questions. It provides a manual for the basic handling and archiving of excavated pottery so that it can be used as a basis…
Archaeology (16 works) · History (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Pottery (7 works)