Jack Wrote:Shouldn't that be 40 litres? .....wasn't there a paper written ages ago that prompted the upping of enviro samples from 30l to 40l? From what I remember, wasn't that paper all about getting a statistically viable number of grain i.e. over 200.
Can't remember much about it though..........
Might be....
1985 (Van der Veen, M.) Carbonised seeds, sample size and on-site sampling. In N. R. J. Fieller, D. D. Gilbertson and N. G. A. Ralph (eds.) Palaeoenvironmental Investigations. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 258, pp. 166-178
Though all the info is in
English Heritage 2011. Environmental Archaeology: A guide to the theory and practice of methods, from sampling and recovery to post-excavation (second edition)
especially pages 8 - 14, fig 5 is especially important.
(hey, what has EH ever done for us?:face-stir
