kohgilouyeh and boyrahmad mountainous region has been played an important role in iranian archaeology especially where the formation of nomadic communities is discussed. through history different nomads have settled the region due to its moderate climate and fertile pasturelands. archaeological studies having recently been conducted in this region have shown variant settlement sites which have ...

The Virovitica Kiskorija South site was a Roman village. In this paper archaeological, archaeobotanical, and archaeo-zoological finds are presented and interpreted, then compared with similar sites and information available from ancient sources. The site was divided into complexes that made a whole. The finds within each complex are presented and compared to similar archaeological sites, as wel...

Any archaeological site shows a stratification formed by single 3D volumes, the deposits and specific 3D surfaces of human origin as pits, ditches or wall-surfaces known as the units of stratification. Excavation forms the main data retrieval process in field archaeology a destructive process to be documented in three dimensions. To fully reconstruct the part of the site destroyed by excavation...

Chav́ın de Huántar is an archaeological site of critical interest for intepreting the Andean archaeological record. In this paper, we present our work on developing an object recognition system to classify Chav́ın pot sherds by decorative impressions. We trained and evaluated MSER and SURF based classification systems on a small labeled set of replica sherds and achieved classification accuracy o...

Magnetic methods have become important tools for the scientific investigation of archaeological sites, with magnetic prospection surveys and archaeomagnetic dating being the most prominent ones. The principles behind these techniques were initially applied to larger and older features, for example prospecting for ore deposits (see Magnetic anomalies for geology and resources) or paleomagnetic d...