Anthropology.net3d ago
A deep learning model trained on 917 Sue ware pieces doesn’t just classify pottery, it maps the fuzzy morphological boundary where dish-type and bowl-type vessels blurred during Japan’s shift to chopstick-based dining. #Archaeology #JapaneseArchaeology #DeepLearning https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-machine-learns-to-read-bowls-deep
A Machine Learns to Read Bowls: Deep Learning and the Shape of Japanese Eating Habits

A new approach to classifying ancient Sue ware pottery reveals not just what the model sees, but what the ambiguity itself might mean

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