5/5 ❤️ The result? We can start to identify real and meaningful differences in how different ancient communities crafted vessels with unique shapes and recipes 🏺

Stats is not just for spreadsheets, it can also tell us stories of human creativity! #Archaeology #DataScience #StatisticsInAction

4/5 📈 #MANOVA tests (to test whether identified ware clusters really mean something)

3/5 🎨 #PCA plots (to reduce the many variables we take under consideration and look for trends across pottery styles, dates, and #archaeological sites)

2/5 🌀 #EllipticalFourierAnalysis (to translate the curves that make up pottery shapes into equations!)

1/5 📊✨ #WorldStatsDay meets Ancient Pottery!
Did you know REVERSEACTION uses statistics to study archaeological materials?

Our recent paper in #OpenArchaeology reveals new insights into pottery from pre-Hispanic Nariño, #Colombia, by turning vessel shapes and paste compositions into numbers using:

@justalittleroo.bsky.social would like you all to know that she was also there supporting her team from the side-lines (she got fomo and booked a holiday) and as such we have fixed the first photo accordingly #archaeologistoffduty #stillinamuseum

Thank you very much for the invitation and the hard work to the organisers from the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, the German Mining Museum in Bochum, and the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica.

Jasmine discussed the #computationalmodelling of #Muisca goldwork; and Marcos introduced the overarching goals and recent results of the #REVERSEACTION project.

Lina talked about her work on #Malibú #goldwork and its role in local #ontologies in the Colombian Caribbean. In the words of Lina, it was "astonishing to see the similarities of the Costa Rican collections with the northern Colombian metalwork" 3/

In March, Lina María Campos Quintero, @jasminevieri.bsky.social, and Marcos Martinón-Torres participated in a workshop about #earlymetallurgy from Mexico to #Colombia, in San José, #CostaRica 1/

Happy New Year from REVERSEACTION who have been back in the labs already, preparing polished blocks for the SEM! These blocks contain small fragments of Nariño vessels (from already broken sherds) and we hope to investigate the clay fabric 💪 (1/3)

#ArchaeologicalScience #archaeology

Congratulations to our Research Assistant Rosie @justalittleroo.bsky.social for winning the Early Career Archaeologist and Dissemination or Presentation Awards at the 2024 #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards! 🎉

The project is based at the University of Cambridge, in partnership with the #MuseodelOro, Bogotá, and many other friends in Colombia. We will introduce the team in future posts 🇨🇴🇬🇧