Abstract 3D data captured from archaeological excavations are frequently left to speak for themselves. models of objects uploaded online viewing platforms, the tops or bottoms surfaces visualised in 2.5D, both reduced 2D representations. Representations excavation units, particular, often remain incompletely processed as raw surface outputs, unable be considered individual entities that represe...

This paper describes a series of experiments to automatically detect and categorise archaeological events—such as survey, excavation, finds and so forth—that are described in natural language text documents. Complex event structures with attributes including date, agent and location are extracted and converted into families of binary relations. These in turn can be mapped to RDF triples for pub...

The late Pliocene is notable for the appearance of two new hominid genera as well as the first archaeological sites, generally attributed to the Oldowan Industrial Complex. However, the behavioral ecology of Oldowan hominids has been little explored, particularly at sites older than 2.0 Ma. Moreover, debates on Oldowan hominid foraging ecology and behavior have centered on data from only two re...

according to the geographical and environmental situation, the kur river basin have been occupied from the middle paleolithic to the modern times. of the ancient cultures of the region, the 3rd millennium b.c cultures contemporary with proto-elemite and the elemite dynasties have less known. despite to the importance of this span of time, there is not clear understanding on the transition from ...

Every archaeological excavation must deal with a vast number of ceramic fragments. The documentation, administration and scientific processing of these fragments represent a temporal, personnel, and financial problem. Up to now documentation and classification have been done manually which means a lot of routine work for archaeologists and a very inconsistent representation of the real object. ...