Stylistic Clusters and the Syrian/South Syrian Tradition of First-Millennium BCE Levantine Ivory Carving: A Machine Learning Approach

This study combines visual approaches with machine-learning techniques to offer data-driven perspectives on the classification and attribution of this early Iron Age corpus of ivory carvings and corroborates traditional visual classification methods and demonstrates how machine- learning techniques may be employed to reveal complementary information not accessible through the exclusively visual analysis of an archaeological corpus.