DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago. ...
The demographic history of Greenland is characterized by recurrent migrations and extinctions since the first humans arrived 4,500 years ago. Our current understanding of these extinct cultures relies primarily on preserved fossils found in their archaeological deposits, which hold valuable informat...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.27111 2024-02-27T08:39:23+00:00 DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago. ... Seersholm, Frederik Valeur Pedersen, Mikkel Winther Søe, Martin Jensen Shokry, Hussein Mak, Sarah Siu Tze Ruter, Anthony Raghavan, Maanasa Fitzhugh, William Kjær, Kurt H Willerslev, Eske Meldgaard, Morten Kapel, Christian MO Hansen, Anders Johannes 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.27111 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/279740 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC open.access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 Animals Archaeology Biodiversity Bowhead Whale DNA DNA Damage DNA, Plant Fossils Geography Geologic Sediments Greenland Helminths Humans Inuit Sequence Analysis, DNA Time Factors article-journal ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle Article 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.27111 2024-02-01T14:55:42Z The demographic history of Greenland is characterized by recurrent migrations and extinctions since the first humans arrived 4,500 years ago. Our current understanding of these extinct cultures relies primarily on preserved fossils found in their archaeological deposits, which hold valuable information on past subsistence practices. However, some exploited taxa, though economically important, comprise only a small fraction of these sub-fossil assemblages. Here we reconstruct a comprehensive record of past subsistence economies in Greenland by sequencing ancient DNA from four well-described midden deposits. Our results confirm that the species found in the fossil record, like harp seal and ringed seal, were a vital part of Inuit subsistence, but also add a new dimension with evidence that caribou, walrus and whale species played a more prominent role for the survival of Paleo-Inuit cultures than previously reported. Most notably, we report evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by the Saqqaq culture 4,000 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper bowhead whale Greenland greenlandic Harp Seal inuit ringed seal Saqqaq Saqqaq culture walrus* DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland |
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Animals Archaeology Biodiversity Bowhead Whale DNA DNA Damage DNA, Plant Fossils Geography Geologic Sediments Greenland Helminths Humans Inuit Sequence Analysis, DNA Time Factors Seersholm, Frederik Valeur Pedersen, Mikkel Winther Søe, Martin Jensen Shokry, Hussein Mak, Sarah Siu Tze Ruter, Anthony Raghavan, Maanasa Fitzhugh, William Kjær, Kurt H Willerslev, Eske Meldgaard, Morten Kapel, Christian MO Hansen, Anders Johannes DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago. ... |
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The demographic history of Greenland is characterized by recurrent migrations and extinctions since the first humans arrived 4,500 years ago. Our current understanding of these extinct cultures relies primarily on preserved fossils found in their archaeological deposits, which hold valuable information on past subsistence practices. However, some exploited taxa, though economically important, comprise only a small fraction of these sub-fossil assemblages. Here we reconstruct a comprehensive record of past subsistence economies in Greenland by sequencing ancient DNA from four well-described midden deposits. Our results confirm that the species found in the fossil record, like harp seal and ringed seal, were a vital part of Inuit subsistence, but also add a new dimension with evidence that caribou, walrus and whale species played a more prominent role for the survival of Paleo-Inuit cultures than previously reported. Most notably, we report evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by the Saqqaq culture 4,000 ... |
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Seersholm, Frederik Valeur Pedersen, Mikkel Winther Søe, Martin Jensen Shokry, Hussein Mak, Sarah Siu Tze Ruter, Anthony Raghavan, Maanasa Fitzhugh, William Kjær, Kurt H Willerslev, Eske Meldgaard, Morten Kapel, Christian MO Hansen, Anders Johannes |
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Seersholm, Frederik Valeur Pedersen, Mikkel Winther Søe, Martin Jensen Shokry, Hussein Mak, Sarah Siu Tze Ruter, Anthony Raghavan, Maanasa Fitzhugh, William Kjær, Kurt H Willerslev, Eske Meldgaard, Morten Kapel, Christian MO Hansen, Anders Johannes |
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DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago. ... |
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DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago. ... |
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DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago. ... |
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DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago. ... |
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DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago. ... |
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dna evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by greenlandic paleo-inuit 4,000 years ago. ... |
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