Antlers far and wide: biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720-900 CE ...
We used biomolecular methods to identify the faunal species present in hair combs and associated workshop debris discovered at the site Posthustorvet in the trading town of Ribe, Denmark, in contexts dated 720-900 CE. The comb finds included four unusual items that have an uncommon but geographicall...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.7665569 2023-06-11T04:03:17+02:00 Antlers far and wide: biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720-900 CE ... Rey-Iglesia, Alba de Jager, Deon Presslee, Samantha Skytte Qvistgaard, Sarah Sindbæk, Søren Lorenzen, Eline 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7665569 https://zenodo.org/record/7665569 unknown Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/zooms https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7665568 https://zenodo.org/communities/zooms Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ZooMS, Viking combs, aDNA article-journal JournalArticle ScholarlyArticle 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.766556910.5281/zenodo.7665568 2023-06-01T11:05:49Z We used biomolecular methods to identify the faunal species present in hair combs and associated workshop debris discovered at the site Posthustorvet in the trading town of Ribe, Denmark, in contexts dated 720-900 CE. The comb finds included four unusual items that have an uncommon but geographically characteristic Scandinavian style. These four early ‘Scandinavian-type’ combs, crafted from antler, were found in contexts 720-740 CE, and were identified as moose (Alces alces) and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) using a combination of peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) and ancient DNA analysis. Our study provides the first confirmed use of moose antler combs in Denmark in the Late Iron Age/Viking Age. Neither moose or reindeer occurred naturally at that time in Denmark, and their closest habitats in the eighth century were on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Based on DNA, the comb identified as moose belonged to the western European mitogenomic group, which has been identified in contemporary samples from Scandinavia ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Alces alces Rangifer tarandus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Combs ENVELOPE(-79.150,-79.150,-73.483,-73.483) |
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ZooMS, Viking combs, aDNA Rey-Iglesia, Alba de Jager, Deon Presslee, Samantha Skytte Qvistgaard, Sarah Sindbæk, Søren Lorenzen, Eline Antlers far and wide: biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720-900 CE ... |
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We used biomolecular methods to identify the faunal species present in hair combs and associated workshop debris discovered at the site Posthustorvet in the trading town of Ribe, Denmark, in contexts dated 720-900 CE. The comb finds included four unusual items that have an uncommon but geographically characteristic Scandinavian style. These four early ‘Scandinavian-type’ combs, crafted from antler, were found in contexts 720-740 CE, and were identified as moose (Alces alces) and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) using a combination of peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) and ancient DNA analysis. Our study provides the first confirmed use of moose antler combs in Denmark in the Late Iron Age/Viking Age. Neither moose or reindeer occurred naturally at that time in Denmark, and their closest habitats in the eighth century were on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Based on DNA, the comb identified as moose belonged to the western European mitogenomic group, which has been identified in contemporary samples from Scandinavia ... |
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Rey-Iglesia, Alba de Jager, Deon Presslee, Samantha Skytte Qvistgaard, Sarah Sindbæk, Søren Lorenzen, Eline |
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Rey-Iglesia, Alba de Jager, Deon Presslee, Samantha Skytte Qvistgaard, Sarah Sindbæk, Søren Lorenzen, Eline |
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Antlers far and wide: biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720-900 CE ... |
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Antlers far and wide: biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720-900 CE ... |
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Antlers far and wide: biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720-900 CE ... |
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Antlers far and wide: biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720-900 CE ... |
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Antlers far and wide: biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720-900 CE ... |
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antlers far and wide: biomolecular identification of scandinavian hair combs from ribe, denmark, 720-900 ce ... |
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