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Lyman, R. Lee.
Cambridge University Press, 2008.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each species are represented to determining whether one collection consists of more broken and more burned bones than another. All methods are described and illustrated with data from real collections, while numerous graphs illustrate various quantitative properties.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R. Lee Lynam is professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. A scholar of late Quaternary paleomammology and human prehistory of the Pacific Northwest United States, he is the author of Vertebrate Taphonomy and, most recently, coeditor of Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology.

CONTENTS

List of figures
List of tables
Preface

1. Tallying and counting: fundamentals

2. Estimating taxonomic abundances: NISP and MNI

3. Estimating taxonomic abundances: other methods

4. Sampling, recovery, and sample size

5. Measuring the taxonomic structure and composition ('diversity') of faunas

6. Skeletal completeness, frequencies of skeletal parts, and fragmentation

7. Tallying for taphonomy: weathering, burning, corrosion, and butchering

8. Final thoughts

Glossary
References
Index


WHERE TO ORDER

ISBN 978-0-521-88749-6 (Hardback) $85.00
ISBN 978-0-521-71536-2 (Paperback) $29.99
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Posted Date: 2009-05-21

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