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A Contribution to the History of Seriation in Archaeology

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The honour to be the first who published the seriation of archaeological finds by formal methods is attributed by David Kendall (1964) to Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie (1899). According to Harold Driver (1965), an American anthropologist, the earliest numerical seriation studies are those of Kidder (1915), Kroeber (1916), and Spier (1917). It seems, however, that a general acceptance of formal seriation methods did not begin until the pioneering publications of Ford and Willey (1949) and G. W. Brainerd (1951) and W. S. Robinson (1951). Hole and Shaw published an algorithm for permutation search (1967), Elisséeff's (1965) and Goldmann's (1968) methods leading finally to correspondence analysis.

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Ihm, P. (2005). A Contribution to the History of Seriation in Archaeology. In: Weihs, C., Gaul, W. (eds) Classification — the Ubiquitous Challenge. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28084-7_34

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