Application of Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology
Ali Alijamaat
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Keywords: Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning,
Abstract :
Archaeological knowledge is crucial for understanding, analyzing, and analyzing human history and cultures. This knowledge helps to properly study the human past in various fields such as architecture, art, society, economics, and religion. Archeology provides a better understanding of the roots and authenticity of cultures and institutions. Research in archeology has various fields, such as site identification, site exploration, analysis of shapes and lines, restoration, and analysis of physical remains and works, all of which are a time-consuming process. Archeology deals with the study of the past, but the community of archaeologists has tried to use modern technologies such as artificial intelligence to use your research. Artificial intelligence has grown significantly in recent years due to access to powerful hardware and large data and has been used in various fields of archeology. This technology is creating a transformation in the method of archaeological discovery and analysis of works. Artificial intelligence can help experts in the identification of sites, content analysis, translation and interpretation of texts, restoration, and other fields as a quantitative tool and provide the possibility of processing large data collected and stored over decades of research. In this article, the application of different branches of artificial intelligence in archeology is presented and its challenges are examined. The result of the current study is that despite the numerous applications of artificial intelligence in archeology which increases the speed and accuracy of the works, it does not replace human researchers, but as a tool, it increases the abilities of experts.
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