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English translation: diagnostic

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11:49 Apr 6, 2011

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Archaeology

Spanish term or phrase: Diagnóstico

La fragmentación intencional de huesos de proboscidio sólo se puede asociar exclusivamente a la obtención de médula en los yacimientos X e Y, pero en el primer caso las marcas no son suficientemente *******diagnósticas******* , y en el segundo no se han descrito suficientemente.

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English translation:diagnostic

Explanation:
It refers to "diagnostic" as in "diagnostic traits".

http://www.archaeologywordsmith.com/lookup.php?category=&whe...

I would translate the sentence as:

"[...] but in the first case, the marks are not diagnostic enough, [...]"

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Note added at 10 mins (2011-04-06 12:00:10 GMT)
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"By the latest Cretaceous, nodosaurs were scarce in Western North America, existing only in specialized forms like Edmontonia and Panoplosaurus. Nodosaur scutes have been found in Eastern North America, not diagnostic enough to identify the species, but enough to tell that these armored dinosaurs were reasonably common in Appalachia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia_(Mesozoic)

"Unfortunately, less than half of the 700 pit-dwellings were available for this analysis, since associated artifacts from the other pit- dwellings were either not diagnostic enough or they were not yet catalogued."

http://books.google.es/books?id=vGnAbTyTynsC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA...

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Note added at 11 mins (2011-04-06 12:01:31 GMT)
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"Unfortunately, the beads are not diagnostic enough to be dated precisely."

http://books.google.es/books?id=yZr-lxQgJiAC&pg=PA298&lpg=PA...

"A substantial number of windblown volcanic ash particles were detected in the upper 20 cm of the earth from terrace G 2. No ash was noted from the lower levels of the terrace fill. The stratum with the ash (the upper part of stratum B in Fig. 4) dates to LM I. The sherds are not diagnostic enough to distinguish between LM IA and LM IB. "

http://www.therafoundation.org/articles/chronololy/excavatio...