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Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française - Actualités (scientific news)
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INORA newsletter (NOT SURE IT STILL PUBLISH)
- 2021 CAA congress
- 2021 EAA congress
- Between Variability and Singularity: Crossing Theoretical, Qualitative and Computer-based Approaches to Types and Typologies in Archaeology [PaM]
- Human Visual Archives, Globally. Materials, Forms and Meanings of Human Representations in Ancient Times
- 2022 WAC congress (TOO EXPENSIVE FEES)
- 2023 AURA Congress
Users/collaborators should be specialists on any consensual group of decorations (Paleolithic rock-art, Iron Age stelae, etc.). We will:
a. inform them
b. propose a master class
c. propose different training(s)
d. propose a congress session/round-table
e. work to get a publication
contact mail and schedule a master class
mail subject:
R package iconr - An open source computer-based method to study ancient iconography
mail body:
Dear Colleague,
We have the pleasure to introduce you the first version of the R package iconr.
The iconr package is dedicated to Prehistoric iconography modeling and analysis. Grounded on graph theory and spatial analysis, it aims to offer concepts and functions for a greater normalization of quantitative analysis, to facilitate cross-cultural comparisons. The main principle of the package is to consider any iconographic composition (here, 'decoration') as a geometric graph of graphical units. Geometric graphs -- also known as planar graphs or spatialized graphs -- allow to model the neighborhood of these graphical units which are the fundamental relationships of visual semiotics.
The first version of the package has been recently uploaded to the CRAN. A brief description of the package has been published on the Journal of Open Statistical Software (attached here), and online documentation is already available:
The next iconr release will integrate shape analysis of graphical units, tree-like structures for graphical units thesaurus (multi-linguism & shared vocabularies), use of directed acyclic graphs (DAG) to model the graphical units' superimpositions (ie, Harris matrix).
To promote the package utilization, we have schedule a first presentation on ZOOM (duration: ca. 45 minutes), the xx/xx/xx at 16:00 UTC. During the presentation, We will explain how it works and what are the expected outcomes (40 minutes) and respond to the audience questions (5 minutes). We will be very happy to meet you at this moment. If you are interested to participate, please conserve the following information
Topic: iconr R package - masterclass
Time: xxx
Join Zoom Meeting
https://xxx
Meeting ID: xxx
Passcode: xxx
If you cannot be present, but you are interested by the package or the presentation, thank you for letting us know. The presentation will be recorded and available on a video platform.
Best regards,
Thomas Huet, LabEx ARCHIMEDE ANR-11-LABX-0032-01
Jose M Pozo, Independant researcher
Craig Alexander, Independant researcher
Online masterclass to present the iconr package and schedule training(s) (open dates with Doodle)
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Geometric graph heuristic
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Graph analysis indexes (degrees, same edges, etc.)
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Case studies
Tutorial on R and RStudio install and basic functions
- Create graph decorations on GIS
Datasets presentations/Training to use the iconr package:
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Read, plot and compare graph decorations
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Further analysis
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schedule congress session/round-table (open dates with Doodle)
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open a GitHub forum for FAQs and scientific exchanges
After the training, people are supposed to have used iconr on their favorite dataset (i.e. a selection of decorations). We will propose them to present their results in an oral communication in the frame of a round-table. Depending on the size of the decoration they have proceed, each used could choose between:
- 3 + decorations: qualitative analysis
- 7 +decorations: semi-quantitative analysis (ie. rank-based, non-parametric tests: Mann-Withney, Spearman, etc.)
- 30 + decorations: quantitative analysis (ie. mean-based, parametric tests: Shapiro-Wilk, Student, etc.)
The aim of the round-table is to find the appropriate way to compare heterogeneous decorative contents (by periods, families, themes, techniques, etc.)
see: families examples
Identify who will be our next collaborators
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Palaeolithic cave rock-art:
- France:
- Spain:
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Palaeolithic portable art: ...
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Azilian painted peebles: ...
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Near East PPNB painting: ...
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Early Neolithic anthromorph potteries:
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Sahara rock-art
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Levantine/Macro-Schematic rock-art:
- Ines Domingo Sanz
- Esther Lopez-Montalvo
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Chalcolithic stelae (Rouergue, Provence, Languedoc):
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Schematic rock-art:
- France:
- Spain: ...
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Cups-and-rings:
- Bretagne:
- Serge Cassen
- Galicia (
PENA TU
, etc.): ... - Great Britain:
- Guillaume Robin
- Aron Mazel
- Marta Diaz-Guardamino
- Bretagne:
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Scandinavian rock-art:
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Mycenian potteries with figurative decorations: ...
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Warrior Stelae:
- Pierre-Yves Milcent
- Marta Diaz-Guardamino
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Mailhac potteries with figurative decorations:
- Gomes de Soto
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First Iron Age potteries with figurative decorations (Sopron, Darslup, etc.)
- Christian Huth
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Second Iron Age "bas aragon" stelae (
STELE BAS ARAGON
, etc.): ///
- Mount Bego:
- Nicoletta Bianchi
- Valcamonica (
VALCAMONICA
):- Alberto Marretta
- Andrea Arca
- Paolo Rondini
- Morro du Chapéu: ...
- Australian arborigen rock-art:
- Ines Domingo Sanz
- South African San rock-art:
- Aron Mazel
- Australian churingas: ...
- Tihuanacu potteries with figurative decorations: ...
- Aztec codex: ...
- Native Americans sustaining memory paintings (e.g. Dakota Bible): ...
- "Mappe di pietra":
- Andrea Arca