Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Stratigraphic Data in Archaeology: Formalization of the Harris Laws as Inferences Using CIDOC CRM
Abstract
Excavation documentation aims at recording the materiality of the archaeological site uncovered and partially destroyed by the excavation process, with an emphasis on spatial information. The knowledge about the past is built on the recording of physical materiality and its spatiality. In archaeological knowledge production, temporal information is inferred from material and spatial relations. The main objective of this paper is to model the spatio-temporal reasoning process applied on excavation documentation of stratigraphic units and interfaces with the CIDOC CRM family of models, thereby enabling the mapping of Harris matrices to CIDOC CRM, while clarifying the distinction between process documentation and reasoning. We apply a methodology of knowledge representation on the Harris laws. The result is a formal modelling of the Harris matrix laws in the CIDOC CRM family of models, with competency questions (CQs) and associated queries.
Keywords
CIDOC CRM CIDOC CRM inf CIDOC CRM archaeo stratigraphy excavation data stratigraphic unit stratigraphic interface Harris matrix Harris matrix principles law of superposition law of original horizontality law of original continuity law of stratigraphic succession law of original consolidation data integration reasoning inference SWRL rule
CIDOC CRM
CIDOC CRM inf
CIDOC CRM archaeo
stratigraphy
excavation
data
stratigraphic unit
stratigraphic interface
Harris matrix
Harris matrix principles
law of superposition
law of original horizontality
law of original continuity
law of stratigraphic succession
law of original consolidation
data integration
reasoning
inference
SWRL rule
Knowledge representation and Semantic Web
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