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Bayesian chronology construction and substance time

Journal of Archaeological Science, ISSN: 0305-4403, Vol: 153, Page: 105765
2023
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Two views of archaeological time are distinguished; an event view that models stratigraphic relations, and a substance view that models genealogical relations among artifacts, including the three modes of change represented by branching, transformation, and reticulation. Chronology construction is more complex in substance time than it is in event time, which only concerns transformation. Allen's interval algebra can be used to specify the chronological relations associated with the modes of change, and these relations can be identified by post-processing the output from Bayesian chronological models. A worked example illustrates how identifying the chronological relations can aid construction of a phyletic seriation of beads recovered from Anglo-Saxon female graves. These results might encourage archaeologists to carry out chronology construction in substance time as an aid to historical inference.

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