sistema per la gestione dell’affidabilità e dell’interpretazione dei dati archeologici

Percezione e potenzialità degli small finds: il caso studio di Festòs e Haghia Triada

By (author) Marianna Figuera

Book cover: sistema per la gestione dell’affidabilità e dell’interpretazione dei dati archeologici

Extent: 166 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: European Prehistory, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Praehistorica Mediterranea

Language: Italian

Paperback (Published)

(June 2020)

ISBN: 9781789696639

5.91 x 8.27 inches

Price: $42.00

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This book aims to identify methodological problems associated with the digital management of archaeological data and to introduce viable solutions that embrace interpretative aspects and the reliability concept. A prototype system is presented, managing small finds data from early 20th century excavations at Phaistos and Ayia Triada.


Un sistema per la gestione dell’affidabilita e dell’interpretazione dei dati archeologici aims to identify the methodological problems associated with digitalized management of archaeological data and to introduce viable solutions that embrace interpretative aspects and the reliability concept. The work develops into a prototype system that manages the data regarding what are referred to as small finds dating back to the palatial periods from the Cretan sites of Phaistos and Ayia Triada which have been studied by the Italian Archaeological Mission since the early 20th century. The analysis of the data highlighted the value of this system and its ability to adapt to the needs of the archaeologist. It provides tools capable of assisting and implementing the interpretation of archaeological data well outside the findings and sites specific to this project for the management of other categories of archaeological finds and of any context. The book can furnish practical and theoretical contributions capable of feeding the methodological debate inherent in issues such as the treatment of sources, legacy data, reuse, the management of uncertainty, and of the rational and intuitive variables inherent in archaeological work, as well as the assessment of the reliability of an interpretative event.

Prefazione - F. NiccolucciF. Niccolucci

  • By (author) Marianna Figuera

'I would recommend that anyone trying to construct a relational database for an archaeological project read this small book.'

— David B. Small