[Bonetools] DNA Analysis

[SA O'Connor]

Dear Christian,

Do you need to go as far as aDNA? It is possible proteomics could give  
you the species ID from the collagen in the bone at lower cost,  
smaller sample size and a better rate of success with material that  
has been decayed and/or handled but of lower taxonomic resolution than  
aDNA. I suggest you contact Camilla Speller camilla.speller at york.ac.uk  
at BioArCh, Archaeological Sciences, University of York, to discuss  
the potential of this approach for your material.

All the best,

Sonia

Quoting Christian Gates St-Pierre <cgates70 at yahoo.fr>:

> 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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