This article uses a novel quantitative methodology to examine sepulchral material culture. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of social spatialization and art as agency, the authors contend that variations in grave designs and materiality cannot simply be explained in terms of changes in fashion and mentality. Other factors also need to be taken into account. Using a digital data collection tool, the Cemetery Surveyor Application (CSA) developed at the University of Luxembourg, they compile a set of data encompassing all the material aspects of each grave in a cemetery in Luxembourg (Western Europe), the setting of their case study. The graves are dated from the 1850s to 2015. |The authors compare the chronological evolution of the most recurrent material features with a GIS-based spatial analysis of the same features. The results of the spatial analysis not only largely confirm the chronological study, but also allow them to be more precise (dating is often problematic) and include undated graves (a third of the sample). The digital data collection tool also allows them to compare cemeteries and to highlight variations in these that cannot merely be imputed to chronology, but also to spatial proximity and material agency.

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墓葬的物质文化及其微观地理：卢森堡公墓，作为以对象为中心的定量物质文化研究的方法论实例

本文使用一种新颖的定量方法来检查隔膜材料的培养。利用社会空间化和作为代理的艺术的理论框架，作者认为，不能简单地根据时尚和心态的变化来解释坟墓设计和物质性的变化。还需要考虑其他因素。他们使用数字数据收集工具（卢森堡大学开发的公墓测量师应用程序（CSA）），汇编了一组数据，其中涵盖了卢森堡（西欧）公墓每个坟墓的所有物质方面，以及案件的背景研究。墓葬的历史可追溯至1850年代至2015年。|作者将最经常出现的材料特征的时间演变与基于GIS的相同特征的空间分析进行了比较。空间分析的结果不仅在很大程度上证实了年代学研究的结果，而且还使它们更加精确（约会通常是有问题的），并包括不合时宜的坟墓（样本的三分之一）。数字数据收集工具还允许他们比较墓地并突出其中的变化，这些变化不仅可以归因于时间顺序，还可以归因于空间邻近性和物质代理。