Seriation (original) (raw)

The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, 2018

Abstract

Seriation is a method for relative dating. The purpose of seriation is to arrange archaeological entities into a relative chronological sequence based on their formal properties. This is done by arranging units in a sequence in which the dissimilarity between adjacent pairs of entities in the sequence is minimized, and, therefore, the most similar entities are next to each other in the resulting sequence. Most commonly, seriation is applied to presence/absence data (occurrence seriation) or frequency data (frequency seriation). Seriation can be performed on attributes of artifacts, artifacts, or assemblages. Seriation is a general method that can be performed by different techniques. In contemporary archaeology, it is usually performed by using multivariate exploratory techniques such as correspondence analysis or multidimensional scaling. Recent research within cultural transmission theory has extended the use of seriation beyond relative dating by demonstrating its utility for studying cultural dynamics in time and space.

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