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Analytical Archaeology and Artificial Adaptive Systems Laboratory (LAA and AAS)

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Fig. 1 – Spatial distribution of 100 clay figurines main breakages (heads; chests; legs; pubes; complete) from Ebla dated to the Early Bronze period (Ramazzotti 2014).

Fig. 1 – Spatial distribution of 100 clay figurines main breakages (heads; chest...

Fig. 2 – Spatial distribution of 100 clay figurines main breakages (heads; chests; legs; pubes; complete) in the Middle Bronze period (Ramazzotti 2014).

Fig. 2 – Spatial distribution of 100 clay figurines main breakages (heads; chest...

Fig. 3 – Drawing 1:1 scale of a clay figurine from Ebla in Idlib Museum (TM92P618) and dated to the Early Second Millennium BC.

Fig. 3 – Drawing 1:1 scale of a clay figurine from Ebla in Idlib Museum (TM92P61...

Fig. 4 – The MST tree-graph defines a mapping of connections between variables that reconstructs the image construction techniques and provides material and cognitive information about the technological and psychological processes that might have occurred in Early Syrian and Old Syrian clay figurines (Ramazzotti 2013c).

Fig. 4 – The MST tree-graph defines a mapping of connections between variables t...

Fig. 5 – The Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals experimental process. The simulations concerned a particular Mesopotamian glyptic production dating to the Akkadian, the Post-Akkadian, and Ur III periods. After a careful formalization of the data into mathematical language, some numerical matrixes have been formed and processed using different AAS. The outline of the iconographic profile of the dataset entries led to group the Ur III presentation scenes (at the end of Third Mill. BC) into iconographic classes for which a narrative, besides a logical ground, as well as a position in the history of the logical development of the relevant theme can be postulated (Di Ludovico, Ramazzotti 2008).

Fig. 5 – The Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals experimental process. The simulations c...

Fig. 6 – Computer programs are formal (syntactic), the human mind has mental contents (semantics) (Searle 1982).

Fig. 6 – Computer programs are formal (syntactic), the human mind has mental con...

Fig. 7 – a) Thiessen Polygons map of the Ebla-Chora Survey area with the localizations of TWC 1-2 points; b) the results of MST test in the Ebla-Chora Survey area. The Ebla Chora Neural Model was trained to generate locational hypotheses on the royal mausoleums’ geographical position. This model has been built testing Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and Topological Weighted Centroid (TWC) algorithms on an Artificial Neural Network hypersurface generated by an Auto-Contractive Map (Ramazzotti 2013b).

Fig. 7 – a) Thiessen Polygons map of the Ebla-Chora Survey area with the localiz...

Fig. 8 – This illustration was the frontispiece of Mans’s Place in Nature (1863). Thomas Henri Huxley applied Darwin’s ideas to show that humans and apes had a common ancestor, which challenged the assumed theological thesis that humans held a unique place in the universe (Huxley 1863).

Fig. 8 – This illustration was the frontispiece of Mans’s Place in Nature (1863)...

Ramazzotti M. 2014, Analytical Archaeology and Artificial Adaptive Systems Laboratory (LAA and AAS), Archeologia e Calcolatori 6