[ Enter the Past ] Vienna - Austria, 8-12 April 2003
 
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P. Stadler
Prehistoric Department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria

 
Evaluation of the Complete Find Material of an Archaeological Culture with Image Database "Montelius"
 

An image database was developed, which allows typology to be done by Drag 'n Drop. Most programmes for evaluation start with data already prepared. How this data were obtained is not of importance.
On the contrary, our programme package WinSerion in connection with image database Montelius implements the collection of data on a level much more below, thus speeding up the whole data entry process enormously.
Image database Montelius is directed towards an archaeological typology and emphasizes a bi-modal view of the data.
· The closed find units necessary for chronology are visible after the data entry process.
· All images in the find units can be brought automatically into a raw typological view, using the information entered. From that starting point a detailed typology can be prepared easily by Drag 'n Drop.
· The main advantage over a conventional typology is an acceleration of the typology process of to about a hundred-fold.
· Based on the two views of the data all further evaluations of a simple or more complex statistics are only "some minutes away".

[gor]13-02-2003