چکیده:
In this paper we compare the subsistence economies based on the study of the faunal remains of two Iron Age settlements,
Haftavan Tepe and Sagzabad in two different environments in northwestern Iran. These two examples are used to illustrate the use of
various statistical methods in archaeozoology to test the significance of the quantitative and qualitative data. This analysis includes
various measures for bone count and also for testing the morphological variability in various animal populations. By using Chi-
Squared test, we show that although the two assemblages are very different is size, they still can be compared. In both Haftavan Tepe
and Sagzabad, cattle is an important component of the subsistence economy. We compared these two populations geographically
distant. With a Student t test we demonstrate the existence of two morphologically different cattle population during the Iron Age in
northern part of the Iranian Plateau. In this paper, we aimed at demonstrating the importance of statistical methods in anthropological
discussions.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Statistical Analyses on Bioarchaeological Materials: Comparison between the Subsistence Economies in Tepe Sagzabad and Haftavan Tepe during the Iron Age Marjan Mashkour The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France Azadeh Mohaseb The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France Received: July 23, 2016 Accepted: December 02, 2016 In this paper we compare the subsistence economies based on the study of the faunal remains of two Iron Age settlements, Haftavan Tepe and Sagzabad in two different environments in northwestern Iran.
Statistical Analysis, Archaeozoology, Subsistence Economy, Haftavan Tepe, Sagzabad, Iron Age Introduction In this paper, we focus on the reconstruction of the subsistence economy in the past, using statistical approaches in archaeozoological analyses, as well as the application of statistics to qualitative and quantitative studies of bioarchaeological materials.
Faunal spectra of Tepe Sagzabad and Haftavan Tepe during the Iron Age The archaeozoological concept of an archaeological site is defined quantitatively by the faunal spectrum, which is the percentage of different animal species in a site.
The identified animals in both sites are mainly domestic and wild caprines (sheep and goat), cattle, equids (onager, horse, ass and hybrids), deer, gazelle, suids (pig and boar), camelids, carnivores (dog, fox and felids), birds and the tortoise (Table 1 and Fig. 2).
Mixture analysis in Tepe Sagzabad and Haftavan Tepe during the Iron Age. Red curves represent female and male cattle groups in both sites Table 4.
Discussion This paper, which presents the archaeozoological analyses of the two Iron Age faunal assemblages of Tepe Sagzabad and Haftavan Tepe, contributes to highlighting differences and similarities in animal exploitation in two different regions of north-western Iran.