Actually, I'd add to your comment that MNI is not a means of estimating
the minimum number of animals present at a site - only the min number that
contributed to the assemblage (bearing in mind that they may not have been
at the site, but parts of them may have been transported to the site).
Ariane Burke, Assoc. Prof.
Dept. of Anthropology,
U. of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
MB, Canada, R3T 5V5
Tel. (204) 474-6654 Fax. (204) 474-7600
"Scholarship is
the enemy of romance.
Where does that leave me?
Alone in the rain again."
(B. Bragg from "Life's a Riot")
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