The Arch-I-Scan Project: Developing an AI system for identifying and recording Roman tablewares

Classifying archaeological artefacts is a time-consuming and costly  process,  requiring  specialist  knowledge,  frequently  resulting in only small proportions of the available evidence being recorded and analysed. Artificial intelligence has the potential to address this problem, by carrying out the tasks of  identifying  and  classifying  artefacts  and  so  facilitating  more  holistic  recording  of  big  archaeological  data  by  non-specialists.