How to Cite
Armero, Carmen et al. “Bayesian classification for dating archaeological sites via projectile points”. SORT-Statistics and Operations Research Transactions, vol.VOL 45, no. 1, pp. 33-46, doi:10.2436/20.8080.02.108.
Abstract
Dating is a key element for archaeologists. We propose a Bayesian approach to provide chronology to sites that have neither radiocarbon dating nor clear stratigraphy and whose only information comes from lithic arrowheads. This classifier is based on the Dirichlet-multinomial inferential process and posterior predictive distributions. The procedure is applied to predict the period of a set of undated sites located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula during the 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC.