Demonstration of a new fuzzy-sets method for classification of vessels on a sample from the Nitra-Lupka site

• Authors: Ivona Vlkolinská , Anna Tirpáková , Beáta Stehlíková , Lucia Záhumenská

Title variants

SK

Ukážka novej metódy fuzzy množín pre klasifikáciu tvarov nadob z pohrebiska Nitra-Lupka

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to present a new statistical method which records the shape of vessels and sorts those vessels into groups based on their shape. This new statistical method - the method of fuzzy similarity allows us to find the most similar vessels according to their shape regardless of their size. It is presented on a sample group of vessels from the Nitra-Lupka cemetery.Cemetery and pottery kilns from the 9th/10th c. in Nitra-Lupka are located in the foreland of the hillfort-fortification. Vessels revealed in graves were burned in these pottery kilns. Vessels are of high quality, although they were produced only on slow-rotating potter's wheel. The results obtained by using of the new method were compared with the results of standard cluster analysis for four different cases of groups of variables. Chi-square-test was used to compare the two selected methods for the classification of vessels into groups.

Keywords

EN

Slavic pottery; Great Moravian State; Slovakia; classification of shape of vessels; fuzzy cluster analysis; chi-square test

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archeologia Polski
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 60
• Pages: 71-92

Contributors

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Ivona Vlkolinská

• Slovenská akademia vied, Archeologický ústav, Akademická 2, 949 21 Nitra, Slovensko

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Anna Tirpáková

• Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Fakulta prírodných vied, Trieda Andreja Hlinku 1, 949 74 Nitra, Slovensko

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Beáta Stehlíková

• Paneurópska vysoká škola, Fakulta ekonómie a podnikania, Tematínska 10, 851 05 Bratislava, Slovensko

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Lucia Záhumenská

• Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Filozofická fakulta, Štefánikova 67, 949 74 Nitra, Slovensko