Dear all,
I would like to canvass opinion on something I have
been having a sporadic debate about for sometime now:
the necessity or otherwise for including within a bone
report the references to criteria used to
identify/differentiate species. My
biologist-by-training partner argues that the
published standard keys and references for any
particular case (eg. chicken vs pheasant, red deer vs
fallow deer or Apodemus sp. vs Mus sp.) should be
known to any professional and their use taken as read,
that explicitly stating their use is superfluous and
merely bibliography padding.
What is the opinion of fellow zooarchaeologists, or
indeed of any biologist colleagues lurking on this
list?
Adrienne
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