MALDI-TOF MS spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from Atlantic Europe
Whale bones are regularly found during archaeological excavations. Identification of these specimens to taxonomic levels is problematic due to their fragmented state. This lack of taxonomic resolution limits understanding of the past spatiotemporal distributions of whale populations and reconstructi...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:8329823 2023-10-09T21:51:15+02:00 MALDI-TOF MS spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from Atlantic Europe van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Ephrem, Brice Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah Johnsson, Leif Lehouck, Alexander Martínez Cedeira, Jose Meng, Stefan Monge Soares, Rui Moreno, 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 2023-09-08 https://zenodo.org/record/8329823 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zgmsbcch7 unknown https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://zenodo.org/record/8329823 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zgmsbcch7 oai:zenodo.org:8329823 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode zooarchaeology collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS) Whales cetacean info:eu-repo/semantics/other dataset 2023 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zgmsbcch7 2023-09-12T22:58:36Z Whale bones are regularly found during archaeological excavations. Identification of these specimens to taxonomic levels is problematic due to their fragmented state. This lack of taxonomic resolution limits understanding of the past spatiotemporal distributions of whale populations and reconstructions of early whaling activities. To overcome this challenge, we performed Zooarchaeology by Mass-Spectrometry on an unprecedented selection of 719 archaeological and palaeontological specimens of probable whale bone from Atlantic European contexts, from the Middle to Late Neolithic (c.3500–2500 BCE) to the eighteenth century CE. The results show high numbers of Balaenidae (most likely North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)) and grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) specimens, two species no longer present in the eastern North Atlantic. Many of these specimens derive from contexts associated with the known medieval whaling cultures of the Basques, northern Spaniards, Normans, Flemish, Frisians, Anglo-Saxons, and Scandinavians. This association raises the likelihood that pre-industrial whaling impacted these taxa, contributing to their extinction and extirpation respectively. Much lower numbers of other large whale taxa were identified, suggesting that it was once abundant and accessible whales that suffered the greatest long-term impact. The pattern of natural abundance leading to over-exploitation, well-documented for other taxa, is thus applicable to early whaling. MALDI-TOF MS data was analysed using mMass software v5.5.0 (Niedermeyer & Strohalm, 2012); details can be found in the main manuscript.Funding provided by: Horizon 2020Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007601Award Number: 101025598 Whale bone samples were taken using a ©Dremel rotary tool removing a small piece of bone weighing up to c.500 mg. For 474 specimens, collagen was extracted using a modified Longin (1971) method as detailed in Seiler et al. (2019), with the addition of a lipid extraction step and the use ... Dataset Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic North Atlantic right whale Zenodo |
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zooarchaeology collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS) Whales cetacean van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Ephrem, Brice Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah Johnsson, Leif Lehouck, Alexander Martínez Cedeira, Jose Meng, Stefan Monge Soares, Rui Moreno, 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 MALDI-TOF MS spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from Atlantic Europe |
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Whale bones are regularly found during archaeological excavations. Identification of these specimens to taxonomic levels is problematic due to their fragmented state. This lack of taxonomic resolution limits understanding of the past spatiotemporal distributions of whale populations and reconstructions of early whaling activities. To overcome this challenge, we performed Zooarchaeology by Mass-Spectrometry on an unprecedented selection of 719 archaeological and palaeontological specimens of probable whale bone from Atlantic European contexts, from the Middle to Late Neolithic (c.3500–2500 BCE) to the eighteenth century CE. The results show high numbers of Balaenidae (most likely North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)) and grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) specimens, two species no longer present in the eastern North Atlantic. Many of these specimens derive from contexts associated with the known medieval whaling cultures of the Basques, northern Spaniards, Normans, Flemish, Frisians, Anglo-Saxons, and Scandinavians. This association raises the likelihood that pre-industrial whaling impacted these taxa, contributing to their extinction and extirpation respectively. Much lower numbers of other large whale taxa were identified, suggesting that it was once abundant and accessible whales that suffered the greatest long-term impact. The pattern of natural abundance leading to over-exploitation, well-documented for other taxa, is thus applicable to early whaling. MALDI-TOF MS data was analysed using mMass software v5.5.0 (Niedermeyer & Strohalm, 2012); details can be found in the main manuscript.Funding provided by: Horizon 2020Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007601Award Number: 101025598 Whale bone samples were taken using a ©Dremel rotary tool removing a small piece of bone weighing up to c.500 mg. For 474 specimens, collagen was extracted using a modified Longin (1971) method as detailed in Seiler et al. (2019), with the addition of a lipid extraction step and the use ... |
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van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Ephrem, Brice Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah Johnsson, Leif Lehouck, Alexander Martínez Cedeira, Jose Meng, Stefan Monge Soares, Rui Moreno, 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 |
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van den Hurk, Youri Sikström, Fanny Amkreutz, Luc Bleasdale, Madeleine Borvon, Aurélia Ephrem, Brice Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Gibbs, Hannah Johnsson, Leif Lehouck, Alexander Martínez Cedeira, Jose Meng, Stefan Monge Soares, Rui Moreno, 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 |
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MALDI-TOF MS spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from Atlantic Europe |
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MALDI-TOF MS spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from Atlantic Europe |
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MALDI-TOF MS spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from Atlantic Europe |
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MALDI-TOF MS spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from Atlantic Europe |
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MALDI-TOF MS spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from Atlantic Europe |
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maldi-tof ms spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from atlantic europe |
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Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic North Atlantic right whale |
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Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic North Atlantic right whale |
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