Ashley N. Coutu
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View article: Palaeoproteomics confirm earliest domesticated sheep in southern Africa ca. 2000 BP
Palaeoproteomics confirm earliest domesticated sheep in southern Africa ca. 2000 BP Open
We used palaeoproteomics and peptide mass fingerprinting to obtain secure species identifications of key specimens of early domesticated fauna from South Africa, dating to ca. 2000 BP. It can be difficult to distinguish fragmentary remains…
View article: Accurate Sex Identification of Ancient Elephant and Other Animal Remains Using Low-Coverage DNA Shotgun Sequencing Data
Accurate Sex Identification of Ancient Elephant and Other Animal Remains Using Low-Coverage DNA Shotgun Sequencing Data Open
Sex identification of ancient animal biological remains can benefit our understanding of historical population structure, demography and social behavior. Traditional methods for sex identification (e.g., osteological and morphometric compa…
View article: Collagen proteins exchange oxygen with demineralisation and gelatinisation reagents and also with atmospheric moisture
Collagen proteins exchange oxygen with demineralisation and gelatinisation reagents and also with atmospheric moisture Open
Rationale The oxygen (O) isotope composition of collagen proteins is a potential indicator of adult residential location, useful for provenancing in ecology, archaeology and forensics. In acidic solution, proteins can exchange O from carbo…
View article: Mapping the Elephants of the 19th Century East African Ivory Trade with a Multi-Isotope Approach
Mapping the Elephants of the 19th Century East African Ivory Trade with a Multi-Isotope Approach Open
East African elephants have been hunted for their ivory for millennia but the nineteenth century witnessed strongly escalating demand from Europe and North America. It has been suggested that one consequence was that by the 1880s elephant …
View article: Earliest Evidence for the Ivory Trade in Southern Africa: Isotopic and ZooMS Analysis of Seventh–Tenth Century ad Ivory from KwaZulu-Natal
Earliest Evidence for the Ivory Trade in Southern Africa: Isotopic and ZooMS Analysis of Seventh–Tenth Century ad Ivory from KwaZulu-Natal Open
KwaGandaganda, Ndondondwane and Wosi were major Early Farming Community settlements in what is today the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. These sites have yielded, among other remains, abundant evidence of ivory and ivory working da…