Research and Reason
Research and Reason
Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Auckland
AI and Archaeology
18 minutes Posted Oct 9, 2023 at 11:01 am.
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Dr Rebecca Phillipps discusses a ground-breaking project using an AI programme to identify stones that have been modified by early humans to use as tools.

Academics from archaeology and bioengineering have collaborated to train AI to recognise features of human-modified artefacts and speed up the classification process.