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Can anyone offer any help to Mark Howland? Please reply to
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Thanks,

Dan Hicks
University of Bristol

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Howland <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:20 AM

I am a PhD research student at the University of Bristol working
in the field of Palaeodietary reconstruction using stable isotope analyis
(d¹³C) of bone collagen. I am currently considering undertaking analysis of
archaeologically excavated historic-period (c.1800 AD) human bone from the
eastern Caribbean.

Preservation of collagen in the Caribbean is problematic due to the climate
so I would like to conduct a small pilot study using samples of bone from
the 18th or 19th centuries from the Caribbean (ideally eastern Caribbean). I
would need ~10 grams from a femoral or tibial shaft from 4 excavated bones,
for the pilot study - and a description of the excavated context.

I would be very grateful if anyone could put me in touch with museums or
excavation projects who could assist me in this pilot study.

Mark Howland MChem (Oxon) GRSC

E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Organic & Biological Chemistry,
University of Bristol, Cantock's Close
Bristol, BS8 1TS, England
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9934
Fax: +44 (0)117 929 3746
URL: www.chm.bris.ac.uk/org/evershed/

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Dan Hicks
Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol,
43 Woodland Road, Clifton, BRISTOL. BS8 1UU. UK
tel: 44 117 954 6060; fax: 44 117 954 6001
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