The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting
© 2023 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the CreativeCommons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permitsunrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Taxonomic identification of whale bones found during archaeo...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/342292 2024-02-11T10:03:35+01:00 The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Ephrem, Brice Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah M. B. Jonsson, Leif Lehouck, Alexander Martínez Cedeira, José Meng, Stefan Monge, Rui Moreno García, Marta Nabais, Mariana Nores, Carlos Pis-Millán, José Antonio Riddler, Ian Schmölcke, Ulrich Segschneider, Martin Speller, Camilla Vretemark, Maria Wickler, Stephen Collins, Matthew Nadeau, Marie-Josée Barrett, James H. European Research Council Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Grupo de Acción Costeria van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah M. B. Jonsson, Leif Martínez Cedeira, José Meng, Stefan Monge, Rui Moreno García, Marta Nabais, Mariana Nores, Carlos Pis-Millán, José Antonio Schmölcke, Ulrich Segschneider, Martin Speller, Camilla Wickler, Stephen Collins, Matthew Nadeau, Marie-Josée Barrett, James H. 2023 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/342292 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230741 en eng Royal Society (Great Britain) #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE# info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/101025598 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/951649 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/834087 Publisher's version https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230741 Sí Royal Society Open Science 10: 230741 (2023) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/342292 doi:10.1098/rsos.230741 2054-5703 open artículo 2023 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230741 2024-01-16T11:56:33Z © 2023 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the CreativeCommons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permitsunrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. 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 challenge, we performed zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry on an unprecedented 719 archaeological and palaeontological specimens of probable whale bone from Atlantic European contexts, predominantly dating from ca 3500 BCE to the eighteenth century CE. The results show high numbers of Balaenidae (many probably North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)) and grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) specimens, two taxa no longer present in the eastern North Atlantic. This discovery matches expectations regarding the past utilization of North Atlantic right whales, but was unanticipated for grey whales, which have hitherto rarely been identified in the European zooarchaeological record. Many of these specimens derive from contexts associated with mediaeval cultures frequently linked to whaling: the Basques, northern Spaniards, Normans, Flemish, Frisians, Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians. This association raises the likelihood that early whaling impacted these taxa, contributing to their extirpation and extinction. Much lower numbers of other large cetacean taxa were identified, suggesting that what are now the most depleted whales were once those most frequently used. This paper is funded by the MSCA-IF project Demise of the Atlantic Grey whale (DAG) under the EuropeanUnion’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 101025598) and under the EcologyGrant of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) under grant agreement ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic North Atlantic right whale Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Royal Society Open Science 10 9 |
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© 2023 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the CreativeCommons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permitsunrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. 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 challenge, we performed zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry on an unprecedented 719 archaeological and palaeontological specimens of probable whale bone from Atlantic European contexts, predominantly dating from ca 3500 BCE to the eighteenth century CE. The results show high numbers of Balaenidae (many probably North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)) and grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) specimens, two taxa no longer present in the eastern North Atlantic. This discovery matches expectations regarding the past utilization of North Atlantic right whales, but was unanticipated for grey whales, which have hitherto rarely been identified in the European zooarchaeological record. Many of these specimens derive from contexts associated with mediaeval cultures frequently linked to whaling: the Basques, northern Spaniards, Normans, Flemish, Frisians, Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians. This association raises the likelihood that early whaling impacted these taxa, contributing to their extirpation and extinction. Much lower numbers of other large cetacean taxa were identified, suggesting that what are now the most depleted whales were once those most frequently used. This paper is funded by the MSCA-IF project Demise of the Atlantic Grey whale (DAG) under the EuropeanUnion’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 101025598) and under the EcologyGrant of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) under grant agreement ... |
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European Research Council Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Grupo de Acción Costeria van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah M. B. Jonsson, Leif Martínez Cedeira, José Meng, Stefan Monge, Rui Moreno García, Marta Nabais, Mariana Nores, Carlos Pis-Millán, José Antonio Schmölcke, Ulrich Segschneider, Martin Speller, Camilla Wickler, Stephen Collins, Matthew Nadeau, Marie-Josée Barrett, James H. |
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van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Ephrem, Brice Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah M. B. Jonsson, Leif Lehouck, Alexander Martínez Cedeira, José Meng, Stefan Monge, Rui Moreno García, Marta Nabais, Mariana Nores, Carlos Pis-Millán, José Antonio Riddler, Ian Schmölcke, Ulrich Segschneider, Martin Speller, Camilla Vretemark, Maria Wickler, Stephen Collins, Matthew Nadeau, Marie-Josée Barrett, James H. |
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van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Ephrem, Brice Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah M. B. Jonsson, Leif Lehouck, Alexander Martínez Cedeira, José Meng, Stefan Monge, Rui Moreno García, Marta Nabais, Mariana Nores, Carlos Pis-Millán, José Antonio Riddler, Ian Schmölcke, Ulrich Segschneider, Martin Speller, Camilla Vretemark, Maria Wickler, Stephen Collins, Matthew Nadeau, Marie-Josée Barrett, James H. The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting |
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van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Ephrem, Brice Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah M. B. Jonsson, Leif Lehouck, Alexander Martínez Cedeira, José Meng, Stefan Monge, Rui Moreno García, Marta Nabais, Mariana Nores, Carlos Pis-Millán, José Antonio Riddler, Ian Schmölcke, Ulrich Segschneider, Martin Speller, Camilla Vretemark, Maria Wickler, Stephen Collins, Matthew Nadeau, Marie-Josée Barrett, James H. |
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The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting |
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The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting |
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The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting |
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The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting |
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The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting |
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prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient european whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting |
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