Resumen de Bayesian classification for dating archaeological sites via projectile points

Carmen Armero Cervera, Gonzalo García Donato, Joaquín Jiménez Puerto, Salvador Pardo Gordó, Joan Bernabeu

• Dating is a key element for archaeologists. We propose a Bayesian approach to provide chronology to sites that have neither radiocarbon dating nor clear stratigraphy and whose only information comes from lithic arrowheads. This classifier is based on the Dirichlet-multinomial inferential process and posterior predictive distributions. The procedure is applied to predict the period of a set of undated sites located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula during the 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC.