R. Lee Lyman

Quantitative Paleozoology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book of its kind in two decades, illustrating how the remains of animals are studied and analyzed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 899g
• ISBN-13: 9780521887496
• ISBN-10: 0521887496
• Artikelnr.: 26183979

Autorenporträt

R. Lee Lyman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. A scholar of late Quaternary paleomammology and human prehistory of the Pacific Northwest United States, he is the author of Vertebrate Taphonomy and most recently coedited Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Tallying and counting: fundamentals
2. Estimating taxonomic abundances: NISP and MNI
3. Estimating taxonomic abundances: other methods
4. Sampling, recovery, and sample size
5. Measuring the taxonomic structure and composition ('diversity') of faunas
6. Skeletal completeness, frequencies of skeletal parts, and fragmentation
7. Tallying for taphonomy: weathering, burning, corrosion, butchering
8. Final thoughts.