Dr. Shyama Vermeersch
@Shyama_Ver
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@BritishAcademy_ Postdoctoral Fellow @school_of_arch | #Archaeology | Past and present #Farming | #Sustainability & #Biodiversity
Oxford
Joined December 2019
Hopping on the bandwagon and you can now also find me on the blue site 😎
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Today, it's reading archaeological reports to try and figure out their domestic structures!
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@FlintDibble Thanks for explaining! It sounds like it did get a bit better since I last tried it during the first wave. Adding hashtags is such an improvement - I hated the lack of them last time. I will give it a shot, but will keep using this platform as well.
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@JKleijne Thanks, Jos, I did find that article and others, but was hoping on getting people's first hand experience 😉
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@PasLad1000 It is! Collagen is the material needed for stable isotope analyses, carbon dating, and ZooMS (protein analyses). Collagen from bones can tell us what the animal/person ate, when they lived, where they lived, and it can help identify the species, just some examples!
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@PasLad1000 Collagen is the organic component of bones! When we pretreat a bone for stable isotope analysis, it means we are using acid & base to remove the mineral component and contamination of the bone. Then we gelatinise, freeze, and freeze-dry it to get the organic part, collagen!
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@petrabonegirl Arid and warm conditions and collagen preservation do not blend well... But I have seen publications with Jordanian/Levantine data, so it should be possible!
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@Jennifer_Bones I know, the final test! I will run this sample once I have the others pretreated as well.
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Going through archaeological site reports is... quite something... 😴
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The samples from my research visit in Jordan arrived in #Oxford! Can't wait to start pretreating these to get animal bone collagen 🧪 #Archaeology
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Exciting news, the samples I took during my research trip to Jordan are on their way to the UK 😍
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@GillianLWong Thanks! I hope you managed to get your samples? The paperwork in Jordan is reasonable and they normally allow material to be exported for analyses 🤞
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