Quantifying Object Similarity: Using Locality Sensitive Hashing for Comparing Material Culture

UCL Institute of Archaeology Research Seminars Programme | Term I, 2020-21

The Term I seminar series, which this year is being held virtually, highlights current Institute of Archaeology research.

Mondays, 4pm (online via MSTeams)

• 19 October: Matthew Pope (Archaeological Sciences): The La Cotte de St Brelade Bone ‘Heaps’ Reconsidered
• 26 October: Corinna Riva (World Archaeology): Citizenship and urban states in 1st-millennium BC Mediterranean

• 2 November: Eva Mol (World Archaeology): Iseum Campense Virtual Histories Project, the archaeology of imagination

  [9 November: Reading Week - no seminar]

• 16 November: Caitlin O’Grady (Heritage Studies): Negotiating knowledge and expertise: heritage, disciplinary power and preservation of the past
• 23 November: Elaine Charwat (Heritage Studies): Is it real?' Authenticity and natural history collections
• 30 November: Mark Altaweel (Archaeological Sciences): Quantifying Object Similarity: Using Locality Sensitive Hashing for Comparing Material Culture
• 7 December: Tim Schadla-Hall (World Archaeology): The Archaeology and History of Admiral Ball's Gardens in Malta - a non-imperial initiative?
• 14 December: Ceri Shipton (Archaeological Sciences): The importance of stone tool miniaturization for early Homo sapiens