I suppose we could segue into the whole question of Egyptian chronology (the linchpin for the entire ancient chronology in that part of the world), but I fear attracting the Mayan calendar kooks or the Fomenko fanatics :frown:

But if any archaeologists out there are using mathematics, I'd be curious to learn what and how. IIRC, there are old some papers out there which proposed to apply the theory of line graphs to constructing chronologies from pottery shards, and I'm wondering if anyone has tried to leverage techniques developed more recently for genomics for a similar purpose.

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