A bayesian naïve Bayes classifier for dating archaeological sites

  1. Carmen Armero 1
  2. Gonzalo García-Donato 2
  3. Joaquín Jiménez Puerto 1
  4. Salvador Pardo-Gordó 13
  5. Joan Bernabeu 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

  2. 2 Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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    Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

    Ciudad Real, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05r78ng12

  3. 3 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

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Proceedings:
Proceedings of the 35th international workshop on statistical modelling (35th. Bilbao.2020)

Publisher: Universidad del País Vasco

ISBN: 978-84-1319-267-3

Year of publication: 2020

Pages: 265-268

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

Dating is a key element for archaeologists. We propose a Bayesianapproach to provide chronology to sites that have neither radiocarbon dating norclear stratigraphy and whose only information comes from bifacial flint arrowheads. This classifier is based on the Dirichlet-multinomial inferential process andposterior predictive distributions. The procedure is applied to predict the periodof a set of undated sites located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula during theIVth and IIIrd millennium cal. BC

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