Underpinning the discipline. One hundred years (or more) of classification in archaeology

Fig.1 – Example of template for assigning pottery vessel shapes to jar, bowl, di...

Fig. 2 – Histograms showing the height/diameter ratios ofpottery vessel shapes c...

Fig. 3 – Comparison of intuitive and computed classifications of a test sample o...

Fig. 4 – Relational description graphs for the ground floor plans of Delos house...

Fig. 5 – Ground floor plans of the Delos houses IIE and IIF (Dallas1992, Fig. 22...

Fig. 6 – Example of the ‘sliced’ method of describing the shape of a pottery ves...

Fig. 7 – Example of tangent-profile descriptions for two axes, and the distance ...