Palaeoproteomics identifies beaver fur in Danish high-status Viking Age burials - direct evidence of fur trade

Palaeoproteomics identifies beaver fur in Danish high-status Viking Age burials - direct evidence of fur trade

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Fur is known from contemporary written sources to have been a key commodity in the Viking Age. Nevertheless, the fur trade has been notoriously difficult to study archaeologically as fur rarely survives in the archaeological record. In Denmark, fur finds are rare and fur in clothing has been limited...

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Main Authors: Luise Ørsted Brandt, Alberto J. Taurozzi, Meaghan Mackie, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Filipe Garrett Vieira, Anne Lisbeth Schmidt, Charlotte Rimstad, Matthew J. Collins, Ulla Mannering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9328512/?tool=EBI

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