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<DIV>One excellent place to start is Sabine Deschler-Erbs monograph on Augusta Raurica with her discussion of raw material identification there. The PDF is available at:</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="https://ipna.unibas.ch/archbiol/pdf/1998_DeschlerErb_BeinartefakteAugustaRaurica_Kap1-2.pdf">https://ipna.unibas.ch/archbiol/pdf/1998_DeschlerErb_BeinartefakteAugustaRaurica_Kap1-2.pdf</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Sonia O'Connor is the go-to person for ivory and an array of other raw materials identification. Finally, for really tricky pieces where you would want the species at least there are a host of techniques with the most promising to my mind the ZoOMS technique which identifies the differing proteins in collagen between species. For a start you can check these out on Google.</DIV>
<DIV> Your images look quite antlerish to me but it is tremendously difficult to identify raw materials unless there is a really healthy surface at sufficiently high magnification.</DIV>
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<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV>Alice<BR><BR></DIV>
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<P>Dear all,</P>
<P>I hope I am writing on the right e-mail address.</P>
<P>First of all I want to introduce myself: I am a PhD researcher at the University of Seville. My research is focused on the manufacture, use and exchange of ivory objects in Iberian Chalcolithic period. Currently, I am studying a set of artefacts from the Chalcolithic settlement of Valencina de la Concepción.</P>
<P>I would like to make you two querys:</P>
<P>- Is there any publication (article or monograph) in which a synthesis of the macroscopic features of different osseous materials is made? (those characteristics of the raw material we could see between 10 and 100X)</P>
<P>- Could anybody help me to identify the raw material of the piece attached in the files? I am<EM> a little bit lost </EM>with it, because I am not able to identify the "most characteristic" features of some of the osseous tissues and I see others that I cannot explain very well...</P>
<P>Thank you in advance.</P>
<P>Bests,</P>
<P>Miriam</P>
<DIV>-- <BR><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: andale mono,times; COLOR: #3366ff">Miriam Luciañez Triviño</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: andale mono,times">Contrato Predoctoral del Gobierno Vasco<BR><BR>Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología<BR>Universidad de Sevilla<BR>María de Padilla s/n. 41004. Sevilla. Spain<BR>Phone: (34) 954 556906<BR>Fax: (34) 954 559920<BR><BR>E-mail: mlucianez@us.es<BR>http://www.departamento.us.es/dpreyarq/web<BR>http://www.grupo.us.es/atlas</SPAN></SPAN></PRE></DIV></BODY></HTML>