[Bonetools] DNA Analysis

[Steve Ashby]

I have just forwarded this message to Matthew.  I can support Alice's
suggestion, having done multiple projects on medieval worked bone with the
ZooMS team.   We have a paper online in j a s for 2014 which uses this
method to distinguish deer species.

Steve
On 12 Nov 2013 07:45, "Alice Choyke" <choyke at ceu.hu> wrote:

> 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.
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> Collins, M., Buckley, M., Grundy, H. H., Thomas-Oates, J., Wilson,
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> J. and Van Doorn, N. (2010) ZooMS: the collagen barcode and
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> fingerprints. *Spectroscopy Europe *22 (2), 11–13.
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> Best,
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> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Christian Gates St-Pierre <
> cgates70 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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>> Dear collegues,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Christian Gates St-Pierre
>> Invited Researcher
>> Département d'anthropologie
>> Université de Montréal
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