Dear Otto,
there are some half ones or entire ones. Dry them, count them,
weigh them and weigh the dried fragment and you will have a simple
way to get to numbers!
Am 11 Nov 2005 um 16:49 hat Otto Brinkkemper geschrieben:
> Dear all,
>
> I hope you can help me with the following:
> I have remains of a neolithic site with large numbers of fragments of
> Corylus avellana nut shells. Since the number of fragments is not very
> informative, I seek to quantify the remains in terms of minimum number
> of whole nuts. I vaguely remember having read somewhere about the
> weight of an average complete stone age hazelnut shell, which would
> help me to calculate my MNI... But I can't find it in my bibliographic
> file. I hope our collective memory is better than my individual
> one....
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> oTTo
>
>
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