Archaeology in the Digital Era Volume II e-Papers from the 40th Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology

order to understand the funerary rituals and the formation of cemeteries. The point pattern data from the 10th–13th century AD cemetery at Madi in Estonia were analysed using several intrasite spatial and geostatistical methods such as autocorrelation, nearest neighbour analysis, point density analysis, and minimum distance analysis. As a result, a new understanding of the funerary rituals performed on the burial place and formation process of the dispersed cremation cemetery is presented.