Dear Florencia,
you can find some good discussion of this problem in:
Grayson, D. 1984. Quantitative zooarchaeology. Orlando: Academic Press
Cheers,
Umberto
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> Dear Zooarch:
>
> Although I´ve always been working on hunter-
> gatherers´faunas, now I´m dealing with a medieval and
> posmedieval faunal assemblage form an urban site in Vizcaya,
> Northern Spain.
> The site was excavated following Harris methodological
> principles, and my question is if it´s proper to analyse
> quantitatively (MNI, MNE and so) all the zooarchaeological
> materials from different stratigraphic units (in Harris´sense) as a
> whole.
> I´ve been discriminating only upon cronological criteria, because
> the site is a single household, in order to quantify different
> species.
> I understand stratigraphic units, in this case, more useful in
> order to make taphonomic interpretations (as every unit varies
> in sediment composition,grain, and so on, for example.)
> As I´m new in Harris and urban archaeology, I would strongly
> appreciate some comment or advice from anyone of you who is
> more experienced on the subject,and I will be willing to discuss
> the matter as well
> many thanks,
> Florencia
>
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