<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Steve</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 12 Nov 2013 07:45, "Alice Choyke" <<a href="mailto:choyke@ceu.hu">choyke@ceu.hu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Christian,</div><div> 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 (<a href="mailto:matthew.collins@york.ac.uk" target="_blank">matthew.collins@york.ac.uk</a>) 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.</div>
<font face="AGaramondPro-Regular" size="1"><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><font face="AGaramondPro-Regular" size="1"><div> </div><div><p align="LEFT"><font>Collins, M., Buckley, M., Grundy, H. H., Thomas-Oates, J., Wilson,</font></p>
<font><p align="LEFT">J. and Van Doorn, N. (2010) ZooMS: the collagen barcode and</p><p><font face="AGaramondPro-Regular"><font face="AGaramondPro-Regular">fingerprints. </font></font><i><font face="AGaramondPro-Italic"><font face="AGaramondPro-Italic">Spectroscopy Europe </font></font></i><font face="AGaramondPro-Regular"><font face="AGaramondPro-Regular">22 (2), 11–13.</font></font></p>
<p> </p><p>Best,</p><p>Alice</p></font></div></font><p align="LEFT"></p><div> </div><p align="LEFT"></p><div> </div><p align="LEFT"> </p><div> </div></font><div><p><font face="AGaramondPro-Regular"><font face="AGaramondPro-Regular"></font></font> </p>
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</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Christian Gates St-Pierre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cgates70@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">cgates70@yahoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>
Dear collegues,</div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent">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.<br><br>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.</div>
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