Paleoethnobotanical Sampling Adequacy and Ubiquity
| Autor: | Michael W. Diehl |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology education.field_of_study Frequentist probability 060102 archaeology Population Sampling (statistics) 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Research objectives Procurement Research plan Geography Need to know Assemblage (archaeology) 0601 history and archaeology education Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Archaeological Practice. 5:196-205 |
| ISSN: | 2326-3768 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/aap.2017.5 |
| Popis: | Archaeological researchers and compliance review officers need to know whether or not a research plan will yield sufficient information to meet research objectives. Despite the need, a key question is often not addressed in proposals or reports: how many flotation samples are sufficient to adequately characterize the food procurement practices at an archaeological site? This article reviews the relationship between ubiquity and statistical probability. By considering the relationship between theoretical ubiquity, measured ubiquity, population ubiquity, and statistical probability, archaeological researchers and compliance officers may assess how many samples must be analyzed in order to adequately characterize the paleoethnobotanical assemblage from a site. These considerations generally apply to any other archaeological data in which presence-absence measures are commonly used and are especially relevant to diet-breadth models in the interest arena of behavioral ecology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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