BONE ANALYSIS AND URBAN ECONOMY: EXAMPLES OF SELECTIVITY AND A CASE FOR COMPARISON.
Author(s): B M Levitan
Reports from three recent sites in Exeter are used to illustrate the facility of a selective approach in bone analysis. In each case, the highlights of the analyses are considered, showing that the selective approach can bring out the important aspects of the bones from the site, and indicating that routine, standardised forms of analysis would be inappropriate. The sites of Exe Bridge, St. Katherine's Priory and St. Nicholas Priory are considered. At Exe Bridge, a series of river reclamation deposits are made up of the waste from the horn working industry. St. Katherine's Priory is used as an example of the importance of studying intra-site lateral variation in terms of bone distributions, whilst a related study at St. Nicholas Priory illustrates a detailed intra-site comparison of a single-group of deposits with very good temporal resolution. The paper concludes with a discussion of the usefulness of inter-site comparisons from single towns.
- Report Number:
- 224/1987
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 30
- Keywords:
- Animal Bone Animal Remains Environmental Studies
