Dear all,
Does anyone know of any work on sourcing red deer antler? Or the relationship
between antler and bone in terms of isotopic signals.....strontium would
probably suffer from diagenesis, but has any work on carbon, nitrogen or oxygen,
lead or other trace elements been undertaken? Or would that be a can of worms?
Just wondering how to find out how far antler has travelled to sites in order to
reconstruct the environment and biology of red deer. Does antler show any
geographical variation in isotopic signal? Or do we need experimental work to
find out?
Any/all ideas welcome.
jacqui
Jacqui Mulville,
Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology,
Examinations Officer
School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff
CF10 3EU
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/archaeology/jm1/
Tel: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4247
Fax: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4929
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