A Simple Method to Recognize Two-Dimensional Figures and its Application to Paleolithic Stone Implements
Banri Endo · The Journal of Anthropological Society of Nippon · 1979
The characteristics of the relatively irregular two-dimensional form, as often seen in research in prehistory or anthropology, are rather difficult to be quantified by the usual measurements of length and angle. The pattern recognition method is most desirable for those characteristics. However, it is usually difficult for the researchers in prehistory or anthropology to use huge apparatus for the pattern recognition. Hence the present author made a new method of measurement, called inertia moment method, which is intermediate between the ordinary method of measurement and the method of pattern recognition. It can be used without such apparatus. An application of this method to the lithic assemblages of the Middle Paleolithic site of the Douara cave showed that this method was useful for numerical analysis.