Collecting Data in the Conservation Lab for Network Visualisation

This article presents the results of a cooperation between conservators and archaeologists in the study of a large assemblage of broken ceramic vessels from a communal tomb, which had multiple episodes of mortuary activity as well as later disturbances. The data collected by the conservators was used with open access software to create a network visualisation of the joins between the pottery sherds found in the tomb. This contributed to the understanding of the formation of the deposits.