“…Some years after the concern for sample adequacy had been identified, it was pointed out that the values of many of the quantitative variables archaeologists measure were potentially the result of sample size or the frequency of phenomena tallied (Grayson, 1981;Jones et al, 1983;Thomas, 1983). This in turn prompted a plethora of studies that explored the relationship between sample size and a quantitative variable of interest, most often the number or richness of kinds represented in a sample (e.g., Grayson, 1989Grayson, , 1991Jones et al, 1989;Kirch et al, 1987;Leonard, 1989a,b;Lyman, 1991;Meltzer et al, 1992;Shott, 1989;Simek and Snyder, 1988). Ultimately, methods were designed to estimate richness given a particular sample size (e.g., Kintigh, 1984); these methods were critiqued (Rhode, 1988) and modified (McCartney and Glass, 1990), and new methods were proposed (e.g., Kaufman, 1998).…”