| Item Description: | The experimental study of refitting individual bones by orthoscopic approach includes 20 bilaterally symmetrical pairs and 14 contiguous articulations. More than 800 tests, each one based upon 70 bones, were done. The occurrence of three hierarchies was established: the first one implies the type of refitting (bilaterally symmetrical bones are much better recognized than contiguity articulations) ; the second one demonstrates that the performance of recognizing refitted bones depends on the type of bones involved. The last one, is related of the degree of osteological knowledge. These results obtained with condition in the future the strategy to follow in digging excavations when reference to topographic data is done. The accuracy of studies applied to metrical, morphometrical and chromatic approaches was also evaluated. The implications brought by refitting single bones in the counting of individuals buried were analysed : new formulae were proposed. That allow us to estimate errors in refitting individual bones. |
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