Comparison of Source and Artifact Characterization Data Using a Generalized Distance Measure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2567178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graeme K Ward, Graeme Ward (0000-0002-1882-728X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 473-477 |
| Publication date | 1974-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/279439 |
| OpenAlex | W2000867980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
A major difficulty arises in sourcing studies when more than two or three elements are used in the comparison of artifacts with a number of potential sources. Multivariate statistical analysis can be used to define source groups and to allocate artifacts to their most likely sources. In this study of North Island, New Zealand, obsidian sources used in prehistory, the generalized distance measure of Mahalanobis and Rao is applied in three phases: first, to define source groups in terms of their inter- and intrasource variation using characterization data from X-ray fluorescence spectrography of five trace element constituents; second, the five-dimensional array was reduced to a three-dimensional figure for visual presentation; and finally, the highest probability of the association of an artifact data-set with that of a source group is used to allocate archaeologically derived material to its most likely source of raw material
Archaeology · Artifact (error) · Data mining · Data set · Data source · Geography · Linguistics · Mahalanobis distance · Measure (data warehouse) · Multivariate statistics · Raw data · Set (abstract data type) · Statistics · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Mathematics
An Evaluation of X‐ray Fluorescence Analysis as a Method for Correlating Obsidian Artifacts With Source Location
A Systematic Approach to the Definition of Sources of Raw Material
On the computation of Mahalanobis' generalized distance (D 2 )
Discrimination of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic handaxe groups using canonical variates
Trade and Culture Process in European Prehistory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2025 (51) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |