Dear Collegues,

My name is Aritza Villaluenga, I am Postdoctoral researcher in zooarchaeology in MONREPOS Research Centre, Neuwied, Germany.

I am writing a new postdoctoral project, involving a holistic faunal analysis of a Middle Palaeolithic site of Germany, known as Buhlen(55.000-60.000BP), located SW of Kassel (Germany).

This site was excavated in 60s by Prof. Bosinski and in 80s by Dr. Fiedler. However, macromammal remains never have been studied, only in 2004 a partial analysis of Dr. Fiedler excavation was produced in the University of Leiden (Netherlands).

In one of the excavated areas, known as Upper Site, were discovered 1586 egg shell fragments. Avifauna bone remains were taxonomically analyzed by  Anne Eastham in 1998.Due to some,  problems was not possible to develop a microscopic method for identifying taxonomically those egg shells. 

Egg systematical recollection by neanderthals would be an interesting behavior, with clear seasonal implications, in the exploitation of small vertebrates and energy adquisition.

I would like to contact a researcher able to identifying taxonomically these egg shell fragments.

Aritza Villaluenga.