Number estimation in vertebrate samples |
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| Authors: | NRJ Fieller A Turner |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Probability and Statistics, The University, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK;2. Environmental Archaeology Unit, Physics Block, University of York, York, YO1 5DD, UK |
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| Abstract: | Methods of quantifying bone samples are discussed and the minimum numbers approach criticized. A technique based upon number estimation of game populations is put forward, and some of the practical difficulties of this method are examined. Consideration is given to the underlying statistical assumptions involved in quantified analysis of bone samples, and a method of calculating confidence limits for death population numbers proposed. |
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| Keywords: | faunal analysis minimum numbers capture-recapture estimates hypergeometric probabilities matching bone pairs |
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