Computer based acquisition of archaeological finds: the first step towards automatic classification

During excavarions a large number of sherds of archaeological pottery is found. These sherds are photographed, measured, drawn and catalogued. Up to now, ali rhis has been clone by hand, and means a loc of routine work for che archaeologist. In chis paper two acquisirion methods for archaeological finds are proposed forming the firsr step towards automatic classification, that could help che archaeologist in his