Comparing extraction method efficiency for high-throughput palaeoproteomic bone species identification

D Mylopotamitaki, FS Harking, AJ Taurozzi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput proteomic analysis of archaeological skeletal remains provides information
about past fauna community compositions and species dispersals in time and space …

A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain

P Gelabert, V Oberreiter, LG Straus… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Caves are primary sites for studying human and animal subsistence patterns and genetic
ancestry throughout the Palaeolithic. Iberia served as a critical human and animal refugium …

The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

GM Smith, K Ruebens, EI Zavala… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Recent excavations at Ranis (Germany) identified an early dispersal of Homo
sapiens into the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Here we integrate results …

Nobody's land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia

N Sala, M Alcaraz-Castaño, M Arriolabengoa… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for unraveling human settlement histories of Eurasia
during the period spanning the decline of Neandertals and the emergence of anatomically …

Combining traceological analysis and ZooMS on Early Neolithic bone artefacts from the cave of Coro Trasito, NE Iberian Peninsula: Cervidae used equally to …

J Hansen, A Sierra, S Mata, E Gassiot Ballbè… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Few studies have combined the analysis of use-wear traces, traceology, and the proteomic
taxonomic identification method Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) …

[HTML][HTML] Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter

TH Nel, C Peters, KK Richter, C Henshilwood… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Remains of small mammals from archaeological sites are often used as
palaeoenvironmental proxies in the reconstruction of past environments. Yet, identification of …

[HTML][HTML] Human Membership in the Large Carnivore Guild: Was It Always" Tooth and Claw"?

JD Speth - Quaternary Environments and Humans, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional wisdom holds that when humans began acquiring meat on a regular basis,
whether by hunting or by scavenging, they became part of the large carnivore guild and, as …

Can ZooMS help assess species abundance in highly fragmented bone assemblages? Integrating morphological and proteomic identifications for the calculation of …

E Discamps, K Ruebens, G Smith… - …, 2024 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) is a rapid, low-cost, collagen-based
method for the taxonomic identification of animal tissues. It is now increasingly applied to …

Integrating ZooMS and zooarchaeology to assess the Châtelperronian and carnivore occupations at Cassenade (Dordogne, France)

K Ruebens, E Discamps, GM Smith, JJ Hublin - PaleoAnthropology, 2024 - hal.science
Archaeological animal bone assemblages are often highly fragmented, meaning that for
over 70% of the recovered bone fragments we do not know what animal (or human) species …

[HTML][HTML] Using ZooMS to assess archaeozoological insights and unravel human subsistence behaviour at La Viña rock shelter (northern Iberia)

L Torres-Iglesias, AB Marín-Arroyo, F Welker… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The highly fragmented nature of Palaeolithic faunal assemblages is a regular limitation in
archaeozoological analyses as it prevents a precise taxonomic identification following …