computational-archaeology

Archaeological Pattern Analysis Framework

This compendium contains an R package for conducting spherical harmonic analysis using Python and R, as well as other quantitative methods for scar pattern analysis.

Syllabus and guide with exercises for the MA course "Data Management and Digital Archeaology" (040468), Institute for Archaeological Studies, Ruhr University Bochum

Reproducible, AI-assisted workflow that turns archaeological excavation reports (PDFs) into a structured, dated catalog of Roman-period pottery finds.

This compendium presents a unified spherical harmonic framework for analysing lithic core morphology and scar patterning.

Research compedium for "Approaching Prehistoric Demography: Proxies, Scales and Scope of the Cologne Protocol in European contexts" including a manual of the Cologne Protocol for ArcGIS Desktop 10.X

Beginner-friendly tutorial on building a machine learning classifier for North American projectile points with Azure Custom Vision. Covers dataset creation, labeling, training, evaluation, and deploying a hosted prediction endpoint for archaeology, museums, and teaching.

Analysis of rim morphology between two contexts at the Carson site

Does elliptical biface morphology differ as a function of raw material color?

Python pipeline for Metrological Domain Profiling (MDP) of ancient administrative scripts (Proto-Cuneiform, Proto-Elamite, and Indus Valley). Achieves 100% metrological classification accuracy and maps Indus sign-iconography semantic locks.

Archaeological feature extraction and vectorisation pipeline: turns georeferenced orthophotos & DEMs into vector geometry (stones, walls, edges, sections) for a PostGIS archaeology database.