artifact-analysis

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you turn raw archaeological artifact records into structured datasets, then run typological classification and statistical analyses to reveal patterns across sites or contexts.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Ceramic typology with correspondence analysis: Encode ceramic attributes and use correspondence analysis to map relationships between contexts and ware types.
• Lithic reduction and debitage analysis: Analyze reduction stages (e.g., cortex percentages) and quantify associations across lithic categories and attributes.
• Assemblage diversity metrics and clustering: Compute diversity indices (e.g., Shannon, Simpson, evenness) and support comparative grouping of assemblages via clustering.

Quick Start

Use the artifact-analysis Skill to analyze a dataset of ceramic sherds and lithic attributes, perform correspondence analysis, compute assemblage diversity indices, and generate summary plots.