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Identification of potential structural coherence based on the ceramic material from provincial necropolis II at Ancient Gerulata (SR) using quantitative analyses

SZABOVÁ, Alina and Zuzana PORUBČANOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Identification of potential structural coherence based on the ceramic material from provincial necropolis II at Ancient Gerulata (SR) using quantitative analyses

Authors

SZABOVÁ, Alina (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Zuzana PORUBČANOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Přehled výzkumů, AV ČR, Archeologický ústav, 2021, 1211-7250

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60102 Archaeology

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121872

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Gerulata; graves; Roman Period; pottery; volume; shape; statistical analysis; structural coherence

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Reviewed
Změněno: 19/5/2022 08:59, Mgr. Alina Szabová

Abstract

V originále

The ceramic vessels from necropolis No. II were redocumented during the ongoing revision of archaeological material from cemeteries belonging to the Roman military fort with civil hinterland – Gerulata. This necropolis contains the highest informative value for both archaeological and anthropological material. Therefore, for the needs of this study, a set of pottery was chosen from that particular site, which consisted of approximately 120 complete various-shaped artefacts to be used for volume calculation. The vessels primarily served for offerings but were also partly used as urns. Drawing and photo documentation was used to create 3D models of the individual artefacts. These visualisations were a data source for the quantitative measurement of the volume variations. Models and volume calculations were created in Blender open-source software before identifying a correlation between vessel shape and volume and the graves in which they were found. The main subject of this research was to identify potential structural coherence within the funerary habits using the univariate statistical analysis produced in PAST 3 open-source software.