Outliers: Looking at Human Behavior Patterns through Vesselization (Or A Journey Through Legacy Data)

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Vesselization is an essential method for more accurately understanding the number, form, and use of vessels at a site. When paired with new technologies, like GIS, it can be used to understand how people’s behavior and interactions with the landscape affect how vessel sherds are deposited. Working with legacy data, I used GIS to identify vessels with “outlier” sherds. These are sherds identified within a different stratigraphic (or archaeological) context than other sherds of the same vessel. However, integrating legacy data into ArcGIS highlighted the need for developing practical methodologies in data management and data transition. While providing preliminary results, this project exhibited the power of geodatabases as a tool to highlight areas of improvement in our overall data management.

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• Race, Racism, and Montpelier   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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