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F. Djindjian
The names below represent a partial list of several of the main contributors
from the USA and Europe:
Mielke (1949)
Cultural facies
Brainerd, Robinson (1951) Seriation
Spaulding (1953)
Typology and statistics (χ²)
Bordes, Bourgon (1953) Cumulative diagram for cultural facies
Clark, Evans (1954) Nearest Neighbour Analysis and spatial analysis
Bohmers (1956)
Graphics and statistics for typology
Meighan (1959)
Seriation
De Heinzelin (1960) Typology and statistics
Vescelius (1960)
Sampling
Ford (1962)
Graphics for seriation
Clarke (1962)
Matrix Analysis
Vertes (1964)
Statistics and graphics
Laplace (1966)
χ² test and “Synthetotype” for cultural facies
Angel (1969)
Prehistoric demography
At the same time, other preliminary research works dealt with the
formalization and recording of data for the purpose of archaeological data
banks, using punch card machines (Gardin 1958).
4. 1960. The computer liberates the researcher from manual
computing
After the laboratory experimental machines (1946-1950), the rst
products appeared in the 1950s: 1951, Univac 1 (Remington Rand); 1952,
Gamma 2 (Machines Bull); 1952, IBM 701 (IBM). In 1955, the Fortran language
was developed on the IBM 704, the rst scientic computer. The rst
business computer, IBM 1401, developed in 1959, was followed in 1964 by
the IBM 360, the rst of the fully compatible upgraded IBM machines.
Starting in 1960, the rst computers for academic research were installed
in computer centres of the universities for general purposes. It was a heroic
time for researchers who were obliged to develop their own software in binary
language, assembly language and then Fortran language for scientic
programs. Fortunately, the computer departments in the universities started
to develop the rst packages, offering users the rst statistical software (SPSS,
Osiris, BMDP). Not just limited to elementary statistics, statistical tests or
graphics, the packages were also offering tools to develop sophisticated algorithms
like numerical taxonomy (Sneath 1957; Sokal, Sneath 1963), Factor
Analysis, Quantitative Geography (Haggett 1965). At the same time, it was
also the very beginning of mapping (Bertin 1967, Sémiologie graphique)
and maps were printed by special dedicated machines (“traceurs”) until the
end of the 1970s.
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