Articles by Chiara Casolino

The definition and understanding of contexts, in this case urban sites, cannot be separated from ‘data coding’ considered as the set of those translation processes, aimed at the objective definition of evidence. This process must necessarily use value (numerical) scales capable of explaining the degree of intensity (quantification) or variability (data quality). The creation of coding tables, used in this case as a collection tool, has a double advantage: the systematization and digitization of data (numérisation des données); the possibility of correlating concepts of a heterogeneous nature (quantity and quality of data; same data from different contexts and/ or chronologies, etc.). This point of arrival also constitutes the only possible starting point for any kind of evaluation regarding the phenomena of transformation peculiar to archaeological scientific research.