Bone weight, meat yield estimates and cod (Gadus morhua): A preliminary study of the weight method
作者:
James H. Barrett,
期刊:
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
(WILEY Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 1
页码: 1-18
ISSN:1047-482X
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1002/oa.1390030102
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.
关键词: Weight Method;meat yield estimates;allometry;cod (Gadus morhua);Norse Orkney
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractPast approaches to the Weight Method (use of the weight of excavated bone assemblages to evaluate the relative potential meat yield of the animals from which they came) are critically reviewed. They do not account for both inter‐taxon and intra‐taxon variability in the relationship between bone weight and total body or soft tissue weight. Critics of the Weight Method have assumed that these problems are insurmountable. It is argued here that they can be overcome practically. Solutions lie in the integration of classic Weight Method approaches, which assume a consistent ratio of bone weight to body weight between different taxonomic and size groups, with the understanding of animal scaling provided by studies of skeletal mass allometry. Allometric equations derived from original data (regarding cod,Gadus morhua) and available from published sources (regarding mammals and birds) are used to illustrate this argument. Three practical approaches to the Weight Method are suggested and briefly explored, using bone weight data from Earls' Bu, a Norse site in Orkney, Scotland, as a case st
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