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Coping with complexity. Towards a formalised methodology of contextual archaeology

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Fig. 1 – Screen dump from GARD. Background: form to create and modify the entity type structure for a recording. Foreground: pop-up form to define relationship types for the entity types.

Fig. 1 – Screen dump from GARD. Background: form to create and modify the entity...

Fig. 2 – Screen dump from GARD. Form to define classification schemes for the entity types, and to attach variables to entity types and to individual types of the classifications.

Fig. 2 – Screen dump from GARD. Form to define classification schemes for the en...

Fig. 3 – Screen dump from GARD. Entry form for recording entities as definedby the entity type structure. Selecting aclass of the classification bound to the current entity type will display the attached variables and their values.

Fig. 3 – Screen dump from GARD. Entry form for recording entities as definedby t...

Fig. 4 – Screen dump from GARD. Form to enter andedit variable values for an entity type orfora particular class attached to an entity type. The form isactivated bydouble clicking the class in question (or the root of the classification).

Fig. 4 – Screen dump from GARD. Form to enter andedit variable values for an ent...

Fig. 5 – Screen dump from GARD. Form to set relationship instances between entities of different or the same entity type. The form is brought up from the main entry form (Fig. 3) by double clicking an entity that has to become part of a relationship instance. The system controls that only “legal” relationship instances can be defined.

Fig. 5 – Screen dump from GARD. Form to set relationship instances between entit...

Fig. 6 – Band decorated bowl from theDanish early Middle Neolithic (after MüLLer1918).

Fig. 6 – Band decorated bowl from theDanish early Middle Neolithic (after MüLLer...

Fig. 7 – Formal decomposition of a triplet band composition.

Fig. 7 – Formal decomposition of a triplet band composition.

Fig. 8 – Graph showing the appearance of symmetric triplet band combinations on 32 Neolithic bowls. For each pot where a combination of two different triplet combinations is seen a count is made. The thickness of the lines between triplet combinations indicates on how many pots the combination is seen.

Fig. 8 – Graph showing the appearance of symmetric triplet band combinations on ...

Madsen T. 1999, Coping with complexity. Towards a formalised methodology of contextual archaeology , Archeologia e Calcolatori 10