The estimation of live fish size from archaeological cranial bones of New Zealand Labridae

Archaeofauna

Volumn 6, Issue , 1997, Pages 41-58

  Leach, Foss ^a   Davidson, Janet ^a   Samson, Jim ^a   Burnside, Gretta ^a  

^a MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Archaeozoology; Fishes; Labridae; Length and weight estimation; New Zealand; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040506931     PISSN: 11326891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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