Distinguishing African bovids using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): New peptide markers and insights into Iron Age economies in Zambia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Assessing past foodways, subsistence strategies, and environments depends on the accurate identification of animals in the archaeological record. The high rates of fragmentation and often poor preservation of animal bones at many archaeological sites ...
Anneke Janzen +10 more
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The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Taxonomic identification of whale bones found during archaeological excavations is problematic due to their typically fragmented state. This difficulty limits understanding of both the past spatio-temporal distributions of whale populations and of ...
Youri van den Hurk +25 more
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Expanding the Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry reference library for North American mammals: new collagen fingerprints from extinct and extant taxaExpanding the Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry reference library for North American mammals: new collagen fingerprints from extinct and extant taxa [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceRobust zooarchaeological analysis of Pleistocene-Holocene faunal assemblages is fundamental for reconstructing past environments, species distributions, human subsistence and faunal turnovers in North America.
Mariya Antonosyan +11 more
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Grouping groupers in the Mediterranean: Ecological baselines revealed by ancient proteins [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Marine historical ecology provides a means to establish baselines to inform current fisheries management. Groupers (Epinephelidae) are key species for fisheries in the Mediterranean, which have been heavily overfished.
Rachel M. Winter +14 more
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New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Middle to Upper Paleolithic cave site of Grotta di Castelcivita (Campania, Southern Italy) contains a key archaeological sequence exhibiting Late Mousterian occupation followed by the Uluzzian techno-complex and an Aurignacian sequence ...
Annette Oertle +12 more
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Multiproxy stable isotope analysis provides insights into diet, animal management, and residential mobility in Old Bara, a metropolitan suburb of the Oyo Empire, West Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONEOld Bara was a royal suburb in the metropolis of the Oyo Empire, one of the most important political entities in Africa, ca. 1600-1835. Much of what is known about this town is limited to a few written and oral accounts about its functions as a royal ...
Moses Oluwaseyi Akogun +8 more
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Peptide mass fingerprinting of preserved collagen in archaeological fish bones for the identification of flatfish in European waters [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Bones of Pleuronectiformes (flatfish) are often not identified to species due to the lack of diagnostic features on bones that allow adequate distinction between taxa.
Katrien Dierickx +8 more
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Archaeology demonstrates sustainable ancestral Coast Salish salmon stewardship over thousands of years. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Salmon are an essential component of the ecosystem in Tsleil-Waututh Nation's traditional, ancestral, and contemporary unceded territory, centred on present-day Burrard Inlet, BC, Canada, where Tsleil-Waututh people have been harvesting salmon, along ...
Meaghan Efford +11 more
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Seasonality and mobility: An Integrative framework for reconstructing Kura-Araxes pastoral systems at Maxta I, Nakhchivan. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe Kura-Araxes Culture (3500-2500 BCE) is often depicted as a homogeneous pastoralist horizon, yet its internal economic and mobility strategies remain poorly understood.
Gwendoline Maurer +11 more
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Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2020 Museum collections not only provide educational tools for the public, but also reference material for osteological research and baseline information for understanding historical population dynamics and food webs.
Antoine Wagner +10 more
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