They don't look much like Ascaris to me - should be spherical, and where are
the knobbles over the surface? I thought of Oxyurus (a horse parsite) becaue
they have one opening, but in a bog core? Hardly likely, and they don't look
right anyway. Invertebrate eggs, some hatched, perhaps - but if so the
chance of identifying rather featureless ones is very small.
Harry Kenward.
Department of Archaeology,
University of York,
The King's Manor,
York YO1 7EP
UK.
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Harry Kenward.
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From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
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Sent: 27 April 2007 01:34
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Phytoliths? Please help.
Hello Hannah,
These look like parasite eggs to me. I sent your email to a colleague who
works with pollen and parasites and she thinks they look like eggs of
ascaris sp. which infests the small intestine in humans. There is also a
species that infects pigs. There is quite a bit of information about this
on the web. Your colleague might want to explore this possibility.
Good luck!
Tonya Largy
Zooarchaeology Laboratory
Peabody Museum, Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Hannah Russ wrote:
Dear Zooarch Members,
I realise this is a little 'off topic' for Zooarch, but I hope someone
will
be able to help with this.
I have a colleague who is looking at tephra from a core from Adderstone
Bog
in Northumberland. I have attached an image of some 'things' that are
present
in a sub sample from 80-90cm depth from a sandy clay boggy area from the
<2.55
g/cm3 fraction. The photo is at approximately x100. There were over 100 of
these on the slide, all the same shape and size. We thought some kind of egg
or
perhaps phytoliths? If anyone could help or has any suggestions that would
be
fantastic.
Thank you in advance,
Hannah Russ
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