4th September 2013, 05:50 PM
Jack Wrote: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
always wondered how they built that model in fig 5. it strikes me as pretty useless if you cant tell what is residual - which you cant - and if anything is likely to skew the dataset with a bias based on poor science. try sieving hundreds of 40lts samples on acidic sites and finding bugger all in any of them and you might well revert to subsampling to see if anything survives
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers