Quantitative Units and Terminology in Zooarchaeology
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2579697 |
|---|---|
| Autores | R L Lyman (0000-0003-2651-7959, University of Missouri, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1994 |
| Volumen | 59 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 36-71 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3085500 |
| OpenAlex | W2277578002 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 202 |
| Referencias citadas | 86 |
Fifteen years ago Casteel and Grayson (1977) identified potential ambiguity in the definitions of quantitative terms and units used by zooarchaeologists. As solutions they suggested that analysts use the original definitions of terms and explicitly specify how units are counted. The history of zooarchaeology since then has involved a shift from producing estimates of taxonomic abundances to measuring various taphonomic processes and effects within taxa. As a result, many new quantitative units and terms for those units have been proposed. Some of these new units and terms have been used to measure properties of bone assemblages that are not clearly related to a taphonomic process or effect. Other units and terms have been used inappropriately due to apparent misunderstanding of the property measured by a unit or due to some assumed, implicit meaning of a term. The 112 terms compiled for this study have 122 distinct definitions. Some of the designated quantitative units are synonymous with one another while other units are used in ambiguous manners that seriously compromise their reliability. Explicit definitions of quantitative units and terms along with detailed descriptions of how individual units are measured are mandatory to the efficient communication of research results and the continued prosperity of zooarchaeological research
Ambiguity · Archaeology · Biology · Compromise · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Taphonomy · Terminology · Zooarchaeology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Ecology · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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Butchering and marrow fracturing as a taphonomic factor in archaeological deposits
Cannibalism in the Neolithic
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Bone density and differential survivorship of fossil classes
Ceramic style analysis in archaeology and ethnoarchaeology
On zooarchaeological Measures of socioeconomic position and cost-efficient meat purchases
Pascal programs for computing taxonomic abundance in samples of fossil mammals
Anatomical considerations of utility curves in Zooarchaeology
The estimation of the relative frequencies of mammalian species
Bone Counts and Statistics
Numbers of individuals” in faunal analysis
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Minimum numbers
Considerations of minimum numbers
Number estimation in vertebrate samples
Bone frequencies
Archaeological Method and Theory
Faunal Remains from Dinkha Tepe, Northwestern Iran
Estimation of the Original Number of Individuals from Paired Bone Counts Using Estimators of the Krantz Type
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| Obras citantes distintas | 202 |
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| Citas por año | 6,31 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | Sí |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 196 |