Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts.

ABSTRACT: The study of artifacts is fundamental to archaeological research. The features of individual artifacts are recorded, analyzed, and compared within and between contextual assemblages. Here we present and make available for academic-use Artifact3-D, a new software package comprised of a suite of analysis and documentation procedures for archaeological artifacts. We introduce it here, alongside real archaeological case studies to demonstrate its utility. Artifact3-D equips its users with a range of computational functions for accurate measurements, including orthogonal distances, surface area, volume, CoM, edge angles, asymmetry, and scar attributes. Metrics and figures for each of these measurements are easily exported for the purposes of further analysis and illustration. We test these func

SUBMITTER: Grosman L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9202890 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature