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A Database for radiocarbon dates. Some methodological and theoretical issues about its implementation.

Journal article published in 2012 by Igor Bogdanovic, Juan Antonio Barceló, Giacomo Capuzzo ORCID
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Abstract

Databases constitute a fundamental element for archaeological heritage management. Our project pretends to examine analytical techniques based on technologies of artificial intelligence, Bayesian statistics to link different archaeological data bases and integrate in one operative system data disseminated in hundreds of different files and servers. As a case study we use the recent referential data base of radiometric dates for prehistory of north-east of Iberian Peninsula. In the case of dating our most remote past archaeologists should associate analytical samples dated by C14, with archaeological materials, some of them dated on stylistic grounds, and with contexts archaeologically excavated and ordered stratigraphically. Our project addresses the concept of “telearchaeology” as the essential condition for conversion of archaeological heritage from mute “stones” into what it should be: a basis for knowledge.