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Cultural traits as units of analysis by O'Brien, Michael J., Lyman, R. Lee, Mesoudi, Alex, VanPool, Todd L.

“…Cultural traits have long been used in anthropology as units of transmission that ostensibly reflect behavioural characteristics of the individuals or groups…”
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North American Paleoindian Eyed Bone Needles: Morphometrics, Sewing, and Site Structure by Lyman, R. Lee

“…Eyed bone needles have been recovered from Paleoindian sites over the last 70 years. Specimens 13,100–10,000 calendar years old average 1.81 ± .58 mm in…”
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Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: Phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes by O’Brien, Michael J., Boulanger, Matthew T., Buchanan, Briggs, Collard, Mark, Lee Lyman, R., Darwent, John

“…[Display omitted] •North American fluted points date ca. 13,300–11,900 calBP.•Some point forms exhibit regional differences in shape but not in…”
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The history of “laundry lists” in North American zooarchaeology by Lee Lyman, R.

“…•North American zooarchaeologists believe most early reports consisted of laundry lists.•Fifty-five percent of titles appearing between 1900 and 1959 are…”
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Location and Position in Archaeology: Revisiting the Original Association of a Folsom Point with Bison Ribs by Lee Lyman, R.

“…The proveniences (locations) of artifacts have long been critically important to archaeological interpretation. Although of major importance to site formation…”
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Paleoindian Exploitation of Mammals in Eastern Washington State by Lyman, R. Lee

“…Eleven mammalian archaeofaunas associated with the Western Stemmed Point Tradition (WSPT) in the Columbia Basin of intermontane northwestern North America and…”
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Paleozoology in the service of conservation biology by Lyman, R. Lee

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Metric Data in Archaeology: A Study of Intra-Analyst and Inter-Analyst Variation by Lyman, R. Lee, VanPool, Todd L.

“…Metric data are regularly presented, analyzed, and compared. Despite acknowledgment that metric data can vary both when collected by one observer and when…”
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Paleozoological Data Suggest Euroamerican Settlement Did Not Displace Ursids and North American Elk from Lowlands to Highlands by Lee Lyman, R.

“…The hypothesis that Euroamerican settlement displaced some populations of large mammal taxa from lowland plains habitats to previously unoccupied highland…”
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The Holocene history of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in eastern Washington state, northwestern USA by Lee Lyman, R.

“…Historical data are incomplete regarding the presence/absence and distribution of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in eastern Washington State. Palaeozoological…”
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Assumptions and Protocol of the Taxonomic Identification of Faunal Remains in Zooarchaeology: a North American Perspective by Lyman, R. Lee

“…Identification of the species of animal represented by ancient bones, teeth, and shells based on the size and shape of those materials is one of the most…”
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A brief history of bison zooarchaeological research in eastern Washington by Lee Lyman, R

“…In 1953 15 archaeological sites in eastern Washington State had produced remains of bison (Bison bison). Over the following years, the growing archaeological…”
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A Critical Review of Four Efforts to Resurrect MNI in Zooarchaeology by Lyman, R. Lee

“…Evaluation of zooarchaeology's quantitative units known as NISP (number of identified specimens) and MNI (minimum number of individuals) during the last three…”
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ACTUALISTIC NEOTAPHONOMIC RESEARCH ON BONE MODIFYING ANIMAL SPECIES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE by LYMAN, R. LEE

“…The volume of literature on taphonomic modifications to faunal remains created by a particular animal species in an actualistic neotaphonomic (ANT) context has…”
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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction from Faunal Remains: Ecological Basics and Analytical Assumptions by Lyman, R. Lee

“…Paleozoologists have long used taxa represented by ancient faunal remains to reconstruct paleoenvironments. Those ancient environments were the selective…”
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On the use of species-area curves to detect the effects of sample size by Lyman, R. Lee, Ames, Kenneth M.

“…Archaeologists have long been concerned about sample size. To monitor the relationship between sample size and the magnitude of a variable of interest,…”
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A warrant for applied palaeozoology by Lyman, R. Lee

“…It has been argued by some neozoologists (those who study living animals) that the palaeozoological record is biased and incomplete (relative to an existing…”
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The diversity of North American projectile-point types, before and after the bow and arrow by Lee Lyman, R., VanPool, Todd L., O’Brien, Michael J.

“…Mimicking paleobiological studies of biodiversity, changes in the diversity of temporal types of North American projectile points are modeled to reveal…”
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Pinniped behavior, foraging theory, and the depression of metapopulations and nondepression of a local population on the southern Northwest Coast of North America by Lee Lyman, R

“…Models derived from foraging theory suggest that high-value prey will be depressed (encounter rates will decrease) relative to low-value prey as human…”
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Observations on the history of zooarchaeological quantitative units: Why NISP, then MNI, then NISP again? by Lee Lyman, R.

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