M. Járó - L. Költő szerk.: Archaeometrical research in Hungary (Budapest, 1988)

Analysis - BARTOSIEWICZ László: Water-sieving experiment at örménykút, site 54

Table 1 Comparison between hand collection and water sieving with 2.5 and 0.8 mm mesh size in terms of mean efficiency (y/x) and efficiency of the increasing refinement (Ay/Ax) Hand collection Water-sieving 2.5 mm Water sieving 0.8 mm X y Ay y/x Ay/Ax y Ay y/x Ay/Ax y Ay y/x Ay/Ax (Ax) 65 26 26 4.0 52 0.5 6.0 32 6 53 12 Oi 55 40 8 73 16 0.5 5.0 166 126 30.2 252 0.5 45 92 -74 20.4 - 148 0.5 4.0 110 18 27i 36 4 4 1.0 8 0.5 35 174 64 49.7 128 10 6 2.6 12 0.5 3.0 218 44 72.6 88 18 8 6.0 16 0.5 2.5 240 22 96.0 44 62 44 24.8 88 11 11 4.4 22 0.5 2.0 168 -72 84.0 -144 166 104 83.0 208 68 57 34.0 114 0.5 . 1.5 132 -36 88.0 - 72 292 126 194.6 252 99 31 66.0 62 0.5 1.0 52 -80 52.0 -160 224 - 68 224.0 - 136 148 49 148 98 0.5 Oi 10 -42 20.0 - 84 4 -220 1560 -440 206 58 412 116 0.5 Abbreviations: x = size category (cm), y = number of splinters, Ay = increase in the number of splinters. The increase of refinement Ax = 0.5 cm was constant throughout the sample