The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting.

Autor:	van den Hurk Y; Department of Archaeology and Cultural History, University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.; Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands., Sikström F; Department of Archaeology and Cultural History, University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway., Amkreutz L; National Museum of Antiquities, Papengracht 30, 2301EC Leiden, The Netherlands.; Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 Leiden, The Netherlands., Bleasdale M; Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK., Borvon A; CNRS, UMR 7041 ArScAn Equipe Archéologies Environnementales, Nanterre, France.; Laboratoire d'Anatomie Comparée, ONIRIS (École Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation, Nantes-Atlantique), Nantes, France., Ephrem B; CNRS, UMR 6566 CReAAH Laboratoire Archéosciences, University of Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France., Fernández-Rodríguez C; Department of History, Universidad de León, León, Spain., Gibbs HMB; Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, UK., Jonsson L; Osteology, Aschebergsgatan 32, Gothenburg, SE 41133, Sweden., Lehouck A; Abbey Museum of the Dunes, Koninklijke Prinslaan 6-8, 8670 Koksijde, Belgium., Cedeira JM; Coordinadora para o Estudio dos Mamíferos Mariños, Rúa do Ceán, No 2, 36350 Nigrán, Pontevedra, Spain., Meng S; Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Strasse 17A, 17487 Greifswald, Germany., Monge R; UNIARQ - Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, 1600-214, Portugal., Moreno M; Instituto de Historia - CSIC, Albasanz 26-28, Madrid, 28037, Spain., Nabais M; Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Strasse 17A, 17487 Greifswald, Germany.; IPHES-CERCA - Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Zona Educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain.; Departament d'Història i Història de l'Art, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain., Nores C; INDUROT - Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Ordenación del Territorio, Universidad de Oviedo, Mieres, 33600, Spain., Pis-Millán JA; Centro de Experimentación Pesquera, Dirección General de Pesca Marítima, Gobierno del Principado de Asturias, 33212 Gijón, Spain., Riddler I; Independent Researcher, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany., Schmölcke U; Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA), Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany., Segschneider M; Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research, Viktoriastrasse 26/28, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany., Speller C; Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver V6T 1Z1, Canada., Vretemark M; Västergötlands Museum, Skara, Sweden., Wickler S; The Arctic University Museum of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway., Collins M; Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.; The Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Kobenhavns, Denmark., Nadeau MJ; National Laboratory for Age Determination, NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Erling Skakkes Gate 47b, 7491 Trondheim, Norway., Barrett JH; Department of Archaeology and Cultural History, University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Royal Society open science [R Soc Open Sci] 2023 Sep 13; Vol. 10 (9), pp. 230741. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 13 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI:	10.1098/rsos.230741
Abstrakt:	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. Competing Interests: We received no funding for this study. (© 2023 The Authors.)
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