3D technology applied to quantification studies of pottery: EVE 2.0

In any archaeological excavation the pottery fragments are the most frequent quantitative remains. As a consequence, it seems right to propose a methodology that can help in their study. Therefore, we intend to expose a method that will lead us to know from a fragment of pottery the percentage of the pottery piece with respect to the total vessel which was part. This approach is not new, since between the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century, C. Orton, P. Tyers and A. Vince started talking about the estimated vessel equivalent (EVE). However, despite its advantages, it is a system little used. On this basis we have designed a reviewed EVE adapted to the new technologies (3D) that allow us to go further and talk of EVE 2.0. Not only is a change in form, but also a deep methodological revision.