The paucity of artiodactyl bone at many Wyoming Basin archaeological sites is often explained by suggesting that bison and other large mammals were unavailable. Ignored is the ethnographic, historic, and modern record of deboning large animals at the kill site, and the transport of meat only to the residential camps. The resulting under-representation of artiodactyl bone skews the data base in favor of small animal bone, primarily from lagomorphs, which were likely brought into the residential camps whole. This problem is compounded when NISP data is used to infer subsistence, because it assigns each bone specimen, regardless of species, the same subsistence value. Consequently, available food yield based on average live weight is suggested to be a better estimate of the human diet, and consequent subsistence focus, than are interpretations based on the exclusive use of NISP/MNI.

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怀俄明盆地全新世动物记录的解释：去骨、运输、NISP/MNI 估计和粮食产量

许多怀俄明盆地考古遗址中偶蹄动物骨骼的缺乏通常可以通过暗示野牛和其他大型哺乳动物不可用来解释。忽略了在屠宰场给大型动物去骨的人种学、历史和现代记录，以及仅将肉类运输到居住营地的记录。由此产生的偶蹄动物骨骼代表性不足使数据库偏向于小动物骨骼，主要来自兔形动物，它们很可能被整体带入住宅营地。当 NISP 数据用于推断生存时，这个问题更加复杂，因为它为每个骨骼样本分配相同的生存值，而不管物种如何。因此，建议基于平均活重的可用粮食产量更好地估计人类饮食，以及随之而来的生存重点，