Quantitative Paleozoology

Author: Lyman, R. Lee (University of Missouri, Columbia)

Archaeological methodology & techniques

Published on 31 March 2008 by CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology’ series.

Paperback / softback | 374 pages, 75 Tables, unspecified
252 x 179 x 19 | 656g

Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each species are represented to determining whether one collection consists of more broken and more burned bones than another. All methods are described and illustrated with data from real collections, while numerous graphs illustrate various quantitative properties.