Dear colleagues,
Last days an interesting proposal arrived to me from a younger phd student in our department concerning the possibility of starting a "mini-research project" in the field of osteology.
It is about trying to establish feasible methods of identification and distinction of roedeer (capreollus) bones from the ones of domestic capriovids.
Of course I am aware of some morphological gross-anatomic features (I have faced "some" during the ellaboration of my phd thesis on roman archaeozoology and most recently in some cases of forensic importance) but now the ideea would be to try to find, apart from these known anatomical features, another approaces in these differentiation aspects.
The next stage would be trying to find osteometrical differences and then some minimalistic structural elements that could lead to a certain diagnosis, especially for the forensic importance- (lately it seems that police calls on our department in order to stop poachers from hunting out of the hunting season-) here I am talking about ultrastructural differences as the osteonic system.
So after this long introduction, my question would be if you can guide me through the literature in order to establish if the project can become a serious one...any papers would be more than welcome..btw..I remember Kim Dammers doing something in the field of ultrastructural differencen a couple years ago....
Thank you all very much!
Alex
dr. Gudea Alexandru
Facultatea de Medicina Veterinara Cluj Napoca
str. Manastur nr 3
Dep. Anatomie Comparata
400372 Cluj Napoca
Romania
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