Hello.

[Patrick Quinney <pquinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,
                As a new subscriber to PaleoNet I though I might as well make my presence known. I'm a recently started PhD student at the 
Hominid Palaeontology Research Group, Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Liverpool, England. Project 
supervision is by Bernard Wood. My research area is reconstructing the palaeoecology of the East African Hominidae; a bit of a broad 
topic area to be sure. My background is archaeology and palaeoanthropology. I graduated from the University of Bradford with an 
honours degree in Archaeological Sciences. My research experience so far has primarily been based in South Africa, where I worked on 
the australopithecine sites of Taung and Gladysvale. Other research includes the masticatory biomechanics of Middle and Upper 
Pleistocene Hominid populations in Europe and Western Asia.

At the present time my research interests are in vertebrate taphonomy and environmental reconstruction. For my pains I'm looking at 
trying to ascertain correlates between functional morphology and ecological niche in extant fauna, as a means of aiding ecological  
interpretation of  fossil assemblages. The primary faunal group that I'm looking at is the bovidae, so if theres anyone out there working 
on fossil bovids, taphonomy or ecological recostruction I'd like to hear from them.

Well thats about it, sorry to bore the net rigid. Bye for now.

				Patrick S. Quinney.