Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References Cited
Barrett, J. H., 1993, Bone weight, meat yield estimates and cod (Cadus morhua): A preliminary study of the weight method. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 3:1–18.
Binford, L. R., 1978, Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology. Academic Press, New York.
-1981, Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths. Academic Press, New York.
-1984, Faunal Remains from the Klasies River Mouth. Academic Press, New York.
Birks, H. J. B. and Line, J. M., 1992, The use of rarefaction analysis for estimating palynological richness from Quaternary pollen-analytical data. HOLOCENE 2 (1):1–10.
Bonzani, R. M., 1997, Plant diversity in the archaeological record: A means toward defining hunter-gatherer mobility strategies. Journal of Archaeological Science 24:1129–39.
Boyd, W. E., 1988, Methodological problems in the analysis of fossil non-artifactual wood assemblages from archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Science 15:603–19.
Bunn, H. T., and Kroll, E. M., 1986, Systematic butchery by Plio-Pleistocene hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Current Anthropology 27:431–52.
Byrd, J. E., and Owens, D. D., 1997, A method for measuring relative abundance of fragmented archaeological ceramics. Journal of Field Archaeology 24:315–20.
Casteel, R. W., 1974, A method for estimation of live weight of fish from the size of skeletal elements. American Antiquity 39:94–98.
-1977, Characterization of faunal assemblages and the minimum number of individuals determined from paired elements: Continuing problems in archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science 4:125–34.
-1978, Faunal assemblage and the ‘weigemethode’ or weight method. Journal of Field Archaeology 5:71–77.
Chaplin, R. E., 1971, The Study of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites. Seminar Press, London.
Chase, P. G., 1985, Whole vessels and sherds: an experimental investigation of their quantitative relationship. Journal of Field Archaeology 12:213–18.
Chase, P. G. and Hagaman, R. M., 1987, Minimum number of individuals and its alternatives: a probability theory perspective. Ossa 13:75–86.
Cruz-Uribe, K., 1988, The use and meaning of species diversity and richness in archaeological faunas. Journal of Archaeological Science 15:179–96.
Davis, M. B., 1963, On the theory of pollen analysis. American Journal of Science 261:897–912.
-1965, A method for determination of absolute pollen frequency. In Handbook of Palaeontological Techniques, edited by B. G. Kummel and D. M. Raup, pp. 647–86. Freeman, San Francisco.
Drennan, R. D., 1996, Statistics for Archaeologists, A Commonsense Approach. Plenum Press, New York.
Egloff, B. J., 1973, A method for counting ceramic rim sherds. American Antiquity 38:351–53.
Fægri, K., and Iverson, J., 1989, Textbook of Pollen Analysis, 4th ed. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
Fieller, N. R. J. and Turner, A., 1982, Number estimation in vertebrate samples. Journal of Archaeological Science 9:49–62.
Gautier, A., 1984, How do we count these bones, let me count the ways? Problems of archaeozoological quantification. In Animals and Archaeology, edited by C. Grigson and J. Clutton-Brock, pp. 237–51. BAR International Series 227. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
Gilbert, A., and Singer, B. H., 1982, Reassessing zooarchaeological quantification. World Archaeology 14:21–40.
Gould, S. J., 1966, Allometry and size in ontogeny and phytogeny. Biological Review of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 41:587–640.
Grayson, D. K., 1978, Minimum numbers and sample size in vertebrate faunal analyssis. American Antiquity 43:53–65.
-1981, The effects of sample size on some derived measures in vertebrate faunal analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 8:77–88.
-1984, Quantitative Zooarchaeology. Academic Press, Orlando, FL.
Hill, M. O., 1973, Diversity and evenness: A unifying notation and its consequences. Ecology 54:427–32.
Holtzman, R. C., 1979, Maximum likelihood estimation of fossil assemblage composition. Paleobiology 5:77–89.
Hubbard, R. N. L. B. and al-Azm, A., 1990, Quantifying preservation and distortion in carbonized seeds; and investigating the history of friké production. Journal of Archaeological Science 17:103–106.
Hulthén, B., 1974, On choice of element for determination of quantity of pottery. Norwegian Archaeological Review 7:1–5.
Hurlbert, S. H., 1971, The nonconcept of species diversity: A critique and alternative parameters. Ecology 52:577–86.
Jackson, H. E., 1989, The trouble with transformations: Effects of sample size and sample composition on meat weight estimates based on skeletal mass allometry. Journal of Archaeological Science 16:601–10.
Kadane, J. B., 1988, Possible statistical contributions to paleoethnobotany. In Current Paleoethnobotany, Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretations of Archaeological Plant Remains, edited by C. A. Hastorf and V. S. Popper, pp. 206–214. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Kempton, R. A., 1979, The structure of species abundance and measurement of diversity. Biometrics 35:307–21.
Kintigh, K., 1989, Sample size, significance and measures of diversity. In Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology, edited by R. Leonard and G. Jones, pp. 25–36. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Klein, R. G., and Cruz-Uribe, K., 1984, The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archeological Sites. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Krantz, G. S., 1968, A new method of counting mammal bones. American Journal of Archaeology 72:286–88.
Kruz-Uribe, K., 1988, The use and meaning of species diversity and richness in archaeological faunas. Journal of Archaeological Science 15:179–96.
Lie, R. W., 1980, Minimum numbers of individuals from osteological samples. Norwegian Archaeological Review 13:24–30.
Lyman, R. L., 1979, Available meat from faunal remains: A consideration of techniques. American Antiquity 44:536–46.
-1984, Bone density and differential survivorship of fossil classes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 3:259–99.
-1985, Bone frequencies: differential transportation, in-situ destruction and the MGUI. Journal of Archaeological Science 12:221–36.
-1992, Anatomical considerations of utility curves in archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science 19:7–22.
Lyman, R.L., Savelle, J.M., and Whitridge, P., 1992, Derivation and application of a meat utility index for Phocid seals. Journal of Archaeological Science 19:531–55.
MacNeish, R. S., 1967, A summary of the subsistence. In The Prehistory of The Tehuacan Valley, volume 1, Environment and Subsistence, edited by D. S. Byers, pp. 290–309. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Marean, C. W., and Frey, 1997, Animal bones from caves to cities: Reverse utility curves as methodological artifacts. American Antiquity 62:698–711.
Marshall, F. and Pilgram, T., 1991, Meat versus within-bone nutrients: Another look at the meaning of body part representation in archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Science 18:149–63.
-1993, NISP vs. MNI in quantification of body-part representation. American Antiquity 58:261–69.
Meltzer, D. J., Leonard, R. D., and Stratton, S. K., 1992, The relationship between sample size and diversity in archaeological assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 19:375–87.
Metcalfe, D., and Jones, K. T., 1988, A reconsideration of animal-part utility indices. American Antiquity 53:486–504.
Miller, N. F., 1988, Ratio in paleoethnobotanical analysis. In Current Paleoethnobotany, Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretations of Archaeological Plant Remains, edited by C. Hastorf and V. Popper, pp. 72–85. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Monckton, S. G., 1992, Huron Paleoethnobotany. Ontario Archaeological Reports 1. Ontario Heritage Foundation, Toronto.
Moore, P. D., J. Webb and M. C. Collinson (1991). Pollen Analysis, A Laboratory Manual. Oxford: Blackwell.
Moreno-Garcia, M., Orton, C., and Rackham, J., 1996, A new statistical tool for the comparison of animal bone assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 23:437–453.
Morlan, R.E., 1983, Counts and estimates of taxonomic abundance of faunal remains: Microtine rodents from Bluefish Cave 1. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 7:61–76.
Noddle, B. A., 1973, Determination of the body weight of cattle from bone measurements. In Domestikations forschung und Geschichte der Haustiere, edited by J. Matolsci, pp. 377–89. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest.
Orton, C., 1980, Mathematics in Archaeology. Collins, London.
-1993,’ How many pots make five? — an historical review of pottery quantification’ Archaeometry 35:169–184.
Orton, C., and Tyers, 1992, Counting broken objects: The statistics of ceramic assemblages. Proceedings of the British Academy 77:163–84.
-1993, A User’s Guide to Pie-slice. University College London, Institute of Archaeology, London.
Orton, C., Tyers, P. A., and Vince, A. G., 1993, Pottery in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Patil, G. P., and Taillie, C., 1979, An overview of diversity. In Ecological Diversity in Theory and Practice, edited by J. F. Grassle, G. P. Patil, W. K. Smith, and C. Taillie, pp. 3–27. International Co-operative Publishing House, Fairfield, MD.
Payne, S., 1975, Partial recovery and sample bias. In Archaeolozoological Studies, edited by A. T. Clason, pp. 7–17. American Elsevier, New York.
Peet, R. K., 1974, The measurement of species diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 5:285–307.
Poplin, F., 1976, Rémarques théoretique et pratiques sur les unites utilisées dans les études ďostéologie quantitative, particulièrement en archéologie préhistorique. In Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques 9e Congrès, Themes Specialisées, pp. 124–41. Nice.
Popper, V. S., 1988, Selecting quantitative meaurements in paleoethnobotany. In Current Paleoethnobotany, Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretations of Archaeological Plant Remains, C. Hastorf and V. Popper, pp. 53–71. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Prange, H. D., Anderson, J. F., and Rahn, H., 1979, Scaling of skeletal mass to body mass in birds and mammals. American Naturalist 113:103–22.
Rackham, D. J., 1986, Assessing the relative frequencies of species by the application of a stochastic model to a zooarchaeological database. In Database Management and Zooarchaeology, edited by V. Wijngaarden-Bakker. Journal of the European Study Group of Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Mathematical Techniques Applied to Archaeology, Research Volume 40.
Reynolds, W. W., 1977, Skeletal weight allometry in aquatic and terrestrial vertebrates. Hydrobiologist 56:35–37.
Rhode, D., 1988, Measurements of archaeological diversity and the sample-size effect. American Antiquity 53:708–716.
Ringrose, T. J., 1993a, Bone counts and statistics: A critique. Journal of Archaeological Science 20:121–57.
-1993b, Diversity indices and archaeology. In Computing the Past. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, CAA92, edited by J. Andresen, T. Madsen, and I. Scollar, pp. 279–85. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus.
Shotwell, A. J., 1955, An approach to the paleoecology of mammals. Ecology 36:327–37.
Smith, B. D., 1975, Toward a more accurate estimation of the meat yield of animal species at archeological sites. In Archaeozoological Studies, edited by A. T. Clason, pp. 99–106. North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam.
Solheim, W. G., 1960, The use ofsherd weights and counts in the handling of archaeological data. Current Anthropology 1:325–29.
Stahl, P. W., 1982, On small mammal remains in archaeological contexts. American Antiquity 47:822–29.
Wild, C. J. and Nichol, R. K., 1983, Estimation of the original number of individuals from paired bone counts using estimators of the Krantz type. Journal of Field Archaeology 10:337–44.
Yarnell, R., 1974, Plant food and cultivation of the Salt Cavers. In Culture Change and Continuity, edited by C. E. Cleland, pp. 113–22. Academic Press, New York.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
(2002). Quantification: Abundance and Other Measures in Archaeology. In: Jochim, M.A., Dickens, R.S. (eds) The Archaeologist’s Laboratory. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47654-1_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47654-1_5
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-306-46369-3
Online ISBN: 978-0-306-47654-9
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive