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Artificial intelligence provides greater accuracy in the classification of modern and ancient bone surface modifications.

ABSTRACT: Bone surface modifications are foundational to the correct identification of hominin butchery traces in the archaeological record. Until present, no analytical technique existed that could provide objectivity, high accuracy, and an estimate of probability in the identification of multiple structurally-similar and dissimilar marks. Here, we present a major methodological breakthrough that incorporates these three elements using Artificial Intelligence (AI) through computer vision techniques, based on convolutional neural networks. This method, when applied to controlled experimental marks on bones, yielded the highest rate documented to date of accurate classification (92%) of cut, tooth and trampling marks. After testing this method experimentally, it was applied to published images of some important traces purportedly indicating a very ancient hominin presence in Africa, America and Europe. The preliminary results are supportive of interpretations of ancient butchery in some places, but not in others, and suggest that new analyses of these controversial marks should be done following the protocol described here to confirm or disprove these archaeological interpretations.

SUBMITTER: Dominguez-Rodrigo M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7606445 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Artificial intelligence provides greater accuracy in the classification of modern and ancient bone surface modifications.

Domínguez-Rodrigo Manuel M Cifuentes-Alcobendas Gabriel G Jiménez-García Blanca B Abellán Natalia N Pizarro-Monzo Marcos M Organista Elia E Baquedano Enrique E

Scientific reports 20201102 1

Bone surface modifications are foundational to the correct identification of hominin butchery traces in the archaeological record. Until present, no analytical technique existed that could provide objectivity, high accuracy, and an estimate of probability in the identification of multiple structurally-similar and dissimilar marks. Here, we present a major methodological breakthrough that incorporates these three elements using Artificial Intelligence (AI) through computer vision techniques, base ...[more]

PMID: 33139821

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