ABSTRACT

This paper presents Geomeasure, a methodological tool developed to recover typometric information with a twofold objective. First, to speed up the process of gathering data by automatizing the way in which it is recovered. Second, it adds higher accuracy and the possibility of re-measuring archeological items without further directly interacting with the piece. Based on a combination of R scripting with GIS features, Geomeasure is at the time able to automatically gather 125–130 typometric variables per archaeological item, with the only input of vectorized photographs. It can be used as a reliable methodological aid to extract detailed information on patterns and trends of shape variability. The system has currently been applied over a sample of 2,000+ geometric microliths in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula. The performance results of its application are on display, and the system is compared to other methodological approaches currently in use for capturing shape variability.

摘要

本文介绍了Geomeasure，这是一种用于恢复具有双重目的的计量信息的方法论工具。首先，通过自动化恢复数据的方式来加快收集数据的过程。其次，它增加了准确性，并提供了重新测量考古物品的可能性，而无需进一步与作品直接交互。基于R脚本与GIS功能的结合，Geomeasure当时能够自动收集每个考古项目的125-130个印刷变量，而只需输入矢量化照片即可。它可以用作可靠的方法学辅助工具，以提取有关形状变化的模式和趋势的详细信息。该系统目前已应用于伊比利亚东部半岛2,000多个几何微岩的样本。