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Études des proximités dans l'espace funéraire: le cas de la nécropole occidentale de Mégara Hyblaea

Andrea Iacovella

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 1997, 8, 67-102

Abstract

The archaeological aim of this paper is to demarcate the groups of graves within the particularly random distribution of a Greek archaic cemetery: the west necropolis of Megara Hyblaea, excavated by Paolo Orsi in 1889. The methodological aim is to observe the behaviour of four different statistical analyses applied to the same data. The selected methods take the variable of space into account, meaning: the exact location where each data has been measured (a grave is a unit). Finally, concerning graves and their location, the following question is posed: is it possible to build one typology of archaeological characteristics through the description of the procedures with which the space has been occupied?

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Statistics Classification of archaeological finds

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CNR - Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale

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