Abstract
This paper describes and demonstrates the usefulness of calculating Euclidean distance to determine both baseline hunting behavior on the site or regional level, and as a way of determining and presenting variation from that baseline. The method is elegant, flexible, and produces easily understood data visualizations, particularly in contexts where faunal data are reasonably divided into three analytical categories. We give an example from the desert borderlands of the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest to illustrate the utility of the method.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 331-340 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports |
| Volume | 25 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors thank R. Lee Lyman and Steven Wolverton for their helpful reviews of the original submission, which have greatly improved the quality of the manuscript. Partial funding for this research came from the University of Minnesota Imagine grant and the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona residential scholar program. Additionally, the lead author would like to thank the UMM junior faculty writing group, particularly Emily Bruce, Tim Lindberg, and Nina Ortiz, for their encouragement and camaraderie.
Funding Information:
The authors thank R. Lee Lyman and Steven Wolverton for their helpful reviews of the original submission, which have greatly improved the quality of the manuscript. Partial funding for this research came from the University of Minnesota Imagine grant and the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona residential scholar program. Additionally, the lead author would like to thank the UMM junior faculty writing group, particularly Emily Bruce, Tim Lindberg, and Nina Ortiz, for their encouragement and camaraderie.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
Keywords
- Quantitative methods
- Taxonomic abundance
- US Southwest
- Zooarchaeology