The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting

The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting

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 possible early whaling activities. To overcome this...

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Main Authors: Youri van den Hurk, Fanny Sikström, Luc Amkreutz, Madeleine Bleasdale, Aurélia Borvon, Brice Ephrem, Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Hannah M. B. Gibbs, Leif Jonsson, Alexander Lehouck, Jose Martínez Cedeira, Stefan Meng, Rui Monge, Marta Moreno, Mariana Nabais, Carlos Nores, José Antonio Pis-Millán, Ian Riddler, Ulrich Schmölcke, Martin Segschneider, Camilla Speller, Maria Vretemark, Stephen Wickler, Matthew Collins, Marie-Josée Nadeau, James H. Barrett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2023-09-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
Subjects:
zooarchaeology
historical ecology
whales
zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry
Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230741

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