Possibilities of PC utilisation for archaeological pottery and potsherds reconstruction/evaluation

In 1995 the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences decided to establish the so called descriptive laboratory. The main target was to apply new methods and use the advantages and features of PCs for research of ancient pottery and its potsherds in a close co-operation with the usual ceramics laboratory. Every ceramic piece is very carefully cleaned, weighted, measured (length and thickness) and labelled with unique identification code tag. All obtained data including the descriptive features are loaded in the computer. After that all the pieces are given to the ceramics laboratory to perform their usual traditional work. All the resulting reconstructed pottery or its parts are then documented graphically and mathematically by descriptive laboratory again