[Bonetools] DNA Analysis

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Christian,
      I have an alternative suggestion. You are perhaps not aware of the
ZoOMS project (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) for the taxonomic
identification of worked and raw materials. The project is run by Matthew
Collins (matthew.collins at york.ac.uk) at York University (We gave them
Neolithic bone beads to look at). The study is still early days so it is
still not possible to differentiate between moose and red deer or cattle or
aurochs. however, it is absolutely non-destructive involving careful
heating of the bone object in a water solution. They use the water to
examine peptides from the bone collagen.  It is also much cheaper than DNA.
Here is one reference I can think of but I know they have others in JAS.





Collins, M., Buckley, M., Grundy, H. H., Thomas-Oates, J., Wilson,

J. and Van Doorn, N. (2010) ZooMS: the collagen barcode and

fingerprints. *Spectroscopy Europe *22 (2), 11–13.



Best,

Alice












On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Christian Gates St-Pierre <
cgates70 at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Dear collegues,
>
> I am presently preparing a grant submission to the Social Science and
> Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). This research will present
> an integrative approach to the study of faunal exploitation by the
> prehistoric Iroquoians of Northeastern North America, combining
> zooarchaeology, seasonality, use-wear analysis and technological studies of
> bone tools. The inclusion of DNA analysis would represent another
> contributon to this integrative approach. More precisely, I would like to
> include DNA analysis in order to identifiy the animal species for some of
> the bone tools that are so heavily worked (transformed) that a
> species-level identification is impossible using morphological criteria
> alone.
>
> Hence I would like to know if any of you knows about a DNA analyst that
> could be interested in participating in such a project. Any suggestion
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian Gates St-Pierre
> Invited Researcher
> Département d'anthropologie
> Université de Montréal
>
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