Dear Joerg,
I'm interested in your comparison of MNI, meatweight and
boneweight as a means of demonstrating bone loss. Is it
published?
Yours,
Sue Stallibrass
On Thu, 18 May 2000 08:02:08 +0200 schibler
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> due to the excellent preservation in swiss neolithic lake shore sites it is
> possible to estimate a percentage of survived bones. If we compare the meat
> wight calculated by the minimum number of individuals and an average wight
> of a species (e.g. cattle) with the meat wight calculated by the bone wight
> of the species (skeleton wight 7-10% of the body wight), we got normaly the
> result that in maximum 1% of all the bones have survived (by very good
> concervation conditions!). This tells us not how much of the bones are
> destroyed by carnivores or pigs but how much of the bone material was
> destroyed by all possible reasons! In mineral soil preservation the
> percentage must be clearly less than 1%.
> Cheers,
> Joerg
> ________________________________________________
> Please note the new email adress starting at october 1, 1999:
> [log in to unmask]
> ________________________________________________
>
> Prof. Dr. Jörg Schibler
> Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
> Archaeobiological Department
> University of Basel
> Petersgraben 9-11
> CH-4051 Basel
> Switzerland
> Tel +41 61 267 23 53
> Fax +41 61 267 23 52
> homepage: www.unibas.ch/arch/
---------------------
[log in to unmask]
Dr. Sue Stallibrass
Archaeological Science Advisor for the north-west region of English Heritage
School of Archaeology, Classics & Oriental Studies (SACOS)
University of Liverpool
Hartley Building
LIVERPOOL L69 3GS
direct telephone: +44 (0)151 794 5046 departmental FAX: +44 (0)151 794 5057
e-mail: [log in to unmask] OR [log in to unmask]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|