Dear Wendy,
If it is not too inconvenient for you, I would highly appreciate to
receive a photocopy of your article. I did some weighing myself in the
meantime, and came to 46, 38 and 40 gr for 100 nuts (extrapolating from
0.23, 0.19 and 0.20 gr for reconstructed half nuts!).
The correspondence of the data gives me some convidence in the medhod I
applied!!
Please use the following address if you can arrange a sending to me:
Otto Brinkkemper
ROB
P.O.Box 1600
3800 BP Amersfoort
The Netherlands
With kind regards,
oTTo
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens wendy carruthers
Verzonden: maandag 14 november 2005 11:30
Aan: Otto Brinkkemper
Onderwerp: Re: Quantifying Corylus nutshell fragments
Dear Otto,
I did some experimental charring and weighing to try to work this out
when I worked on a large deposit of hazelnut shell fragments from a
Mesolithic feature in the Southern Hebrides.
Carruthers, Wendy J. (2000) The charred hazelnut shell and other plant
remains. In (ed) Steven Mithen, Hunter-gatherer landscape archaeology.
The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 1988-98. Volume 2. McDonald
Institute Monographs, p.407-415.
It's not possible to be very accurate as there is a large variation
between large nuts and small nuts (50g per 100 charred nutshells
compared with 29g), so the size of nuts in the period & geographic area
you are studying will have a big effect. Let me know if you would like a
photocopy.
Best Wishes,
Wendy
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Subject: Quantifying Corylus nutshell fragments
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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