SOME NOTES ON SAMPLING AND SIEVING FOR ANIMAL BONES
Author(s): Sebastian Payne
This note offers general guidelines to excavators on planning sieving and sampling strategies for animal bones. It includes advice on choice of contexts, mesh size, and sample size, practical advice on procedures, and an appendix on quantitative problems involved in relating data from sieved samples to data from trench-recovered assemblages. The importance of consultation with specialists before and during excavation is stressed; these notes are an adjunct to and not a substitute for proper consultation with a zoo-archaeologist.
- Report Number:
- 55/1992
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 8
- Keywords:
- Animal Bone Animal Remains
