Modelling identities : a case study from the iron age of South-East Europe / Catalin Nicolae Popa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popa, Cătălin Nicolae, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Quantitative archaeology and archaeological modelling

Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

La Tène period--Dacia.

La Tène period.

Civilization, Dacian.

Burial--Case studies.

Burial.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This volume investigates the construction of group identity in Late La Tène South-East Europe using an innovative statistical modelling method. Death and burial theory underlies the potential of mortuary practices for identity research. The sample used for this volumes's research consists of 370 graves, organized in a specially crated database that records funerary ritual; and grave-good information. In the case of grave-goods, this involved found hierarchically organized categorical variables, which serve to describe each item by combining functional and typological features. The volume also aims to show the compatibility of archaeological theory and statistical modelling. The discussions from archaeological theory rarely find methodological implementations through statistical methods. In this volume, theoretical issues form an integrative part of data preparation, method development and result interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783319632650

3319632655

OCLC:

1016637243