Can this robot help us identify anthropogenic patterns in chaotic stone samples?
I think computerized robot technology can help archaeologists by substantially reducing lithic chaos and aggregating similar stones by age, type and size and shape. This allows much more efficiency to look for particular rock materials and form-types which may have been used for art or tool purposes by humans.
Robots may help us sort out natural stones from ones which have had human modification attention in a more unbiased way than humans alone are able to achieve. It has been characterized by some as "useless" but the possible practical applications in geology, geoarchaeology and archaeology seem obvious.
"The robot is called Jller, named for the German river where the aforementioned rocks were collected. Jller uses computer vision to sort pebbles from "any river" by geologic age, distinguishing between them by identifying features like the surface texture, grain, and composition of each stone."
Subjectivity in Stone Age art works such as figure stones, engravings, sculptures, effigies and curated manuports. See how images and icons have been realized in portable rock media since the dawn of humanity. Here, archaeologists and art historians are becoming aware of these forsaken artifacts. “And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing." -in W. Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1599.
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