[Bonetools] DNA Analysis

[Rivka Rabinovich]

Dear Christian,



I would suggest to contact Dr. Gila Kahila-Bar-Gal for aDNA. Better make
the direct contact  - kbgila at gmail.com, I highly recommend.



Best,



RivkA







Rivka Rabinovich, Ph.D
National Natural History Collections, Institute of Earth Sciences,
Institute of Archaeology,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Berman Building, Edmond J. Safra campus, Givat Ram
Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Tel. 972-2-6585784
Fax. 972-2-6585782

*rivkar at mail.huji.ac.il <rivkar at mail.huji.ac.il>*

http://nnhc.huji.ac.il





*From:* bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu [mailto:
bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] *On Behalf Of *Christian Gates St-Pierre
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:37 PM
*To:* Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study
of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.
*Subject:* Re: [Bonetools] DNA Analysis



Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I have contacted Matthew and I would
be very interested in exploring with this new technique.



Christian



Le mardi 12 novembre 2013 4h32, Steve Ashby <steve.ashby at york.ac.uk> a
écrit :

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.









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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