Telling a non-linear story: the exploration of micro-artefacts' non-linear structure

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1532-1536

  Kontogiorgos, Dimitris ^a   Leontitsis, Alexandros ^b,c   Sangole, Archana P ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION OF GREATER MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Micro artefacts; Non linearity; Pattern recognition; Spherical self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; EXPLORATION; MAP; NEOLITHIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SELF ORGANIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34447102968     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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