Formal procedures and the use of computers in archaeology

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It is well known that the introduction of rigorous semiological and mathematical methods is the necessary condition of the coherent application of computers to archaeology. The aim of this article is simply to emphasize two less obvious aspects of present research trends: (1) The different phases of archaeological work, at which the new methods are introduced, are interdependent. The solution adopted at each level — information retrieval, descriptive analysis, search for structural relations — must be selected with a view of the rigour of the whole. (2) The scientific criteria implied by the introduction of new methods lead to the examination of archaeological construction itself. The deductive schema proposed is aimed at reducing the use, at an interpretative level, of analogy and inference.

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