In this paper, I investigate the possibilities and limitations of fractal analysis methods applied to archaeological and synthetic settlement plans, with the goal of providing quantitative measures of spatial randomness or noise, as well as potential tools for automated culture-historical attribution of settlement plans and socio-economic intra-site differentiation. The archaeological sample is made from Linear Pottery settlements in south-west Slovakia and Trypillia settlements in the Southern Bug—Dnieper interfluve in central Ukraine, all based upon high-quality geomagnetic site plans. Synthetic plans are constructed as geometrically ideal versions of the archaeological ones, with varying degrees of added spatial noise. A significant correlation between fractal dimension and noise level is revealed for synthetic settlement plans, independently of size, density, house-size distribution and basic layout. However, several methodological challenges persist, and further systematic exploration on larger samples is needed before these results may be generalised. All analysis is performed in the R language and the script is made freely available in order to facilitate further development.

在本文中，我研究了分形分析方法应用于考古和综合聚居计划的可能性和局限性，目的是提供空间随机性或噪声的定量测量，以及对聚居计划和综合聚居计划进行自动文化历史归因的潜在工具。社会经济内部差异化。考古样本取自斯洛伐克西南部的线性陶器定居点和乌克兰中部布格-第聂伯河交汇处南部的特里皮利亚定居点，所有这些都基于高质量的地磁遗址平面图。综合平面图被构建为考古平面图的几何理想版本，并不同程度地增加了空间噪声。对于综合聚落规划，分形维数和噪声水平之间存在显着相关性，与尺寸、密度、房屋面积分布和基本布局无关。然而，一些方法学挑战仍然存在，在这些结果得到推广之前，需要对更大的样本进行进一步的系统探索。所有分析均以 R 语言进行，并且脚本免费提供，以便于进一步开发。