{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/archaeologists-teach-computers-to-sort-ancient-pottery/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"Archaeologists teach computers to sort ancient pottery","slug":"archaeologists-teach-computers-to-sort-ancient-pottery","createdLocal":"2021-05-18 14:31:14.068540","publishDate":"2021-05-18 00:00:00","feedName":"Image Recognition","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/nau-atc051721.php"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>He and anthropology professor Chris Downum began researching the feasibility of using a computer to accurately classify broken pieces of pottery, known as sherds, into known pottery types in 2016.\n\"On many of the thousands of archaeological sites scattered across the American Southwest, archaeologists will often find broken fragments of pottery known as sherds.\nFinally, they trained the machine to learn pottery types by focusing on the pottery specimens the archaeologists agreed on.\n\"An exciting spinoff of this process was the ability of the computer to find nearly exact matches of particular snippets of pottery designs represented on individual sherds,\" Downum said.\nThe approach might also be better able to associate particular pottery designs from excavated structures which have been dated using the tree-ring method.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"archaeologists-teach-computers-to-sort-ancient-pottery"}}}