Can anyone offer mike help....he is not a zooarch but
rather works with isotopes so any suggestions should not
assume an indepth knowledge of quantification....
Having just returned from my hols I am a little too busy to
help at present....
Thanks
jacqui
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:31:44 +0100
From: Michael Davis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Help (again!!!!)
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Hi Jacqui,
Thanks for the references, can I annoy you again. In order
for me to calculate proportion of meat in the human diet, I
need to get an average animal isotopic value. I intended to
do this by just using the proportion of each animal (cow,
pig, shoat) found at each site. However, what I have to go
on is one faunal study from one site. I have the weight of
bone found and the number of fragments. My point is that if
I work on weight proportions, I will bias the data towards
cattle. If I could balance the mass of bone found
against mass of complete skeleton involved this may be more
accurate (am I making any sense at all). Also I was going
to balance it out against mass of meat potential per
animal, I thought you would know this for neolithic
animals (small cattle etc..).
So basically do you know how much a Neolithic cow, pig,
sheep and goat weigh (whole animal or whole skeleton or
both?), and also roughly how much meat/milk could be
acquired from each animal.
Please help or point me in some direction.
Cheers
Mike
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Jacqui Mulville,
EH Regional Science Advisor (E. Mids)
Oxford University Museum,
Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW
Tel: 01865-272996 Fax: 01865-272970
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