3
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

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

      research-article

      Read this article at

      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Few studies have combined the analysis of use-wear traces, traceology, and the proteomic taxonomic identification method Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS). Traceology provides information on the usage, in this case, of bone artefacts, while ZooMS allows for taxonomic identifications where diagnostic features are otherwise gone. The approaches therefore offer complementary information on bone artefacts, allowing for insights into species selection strategies in bone tool manufacture and their subsequent use. Here we present a case study of 20 bone artefacts, mainly bone points, from the Early Neolithic cave site of Coro Trasito located on the southern slope of the Central Pyrenees. Hitherto, studies on Early Neolithic bone artefacts from the Iberian Peninsula have suggested based on morphological assessments that Ovis aries/ Capra hircus constituted the majority of the bone material selected for bone tool production. However, the taxonomic identification in this study suggests that, at this site, Cervidae was selected equally to that of O. aries/ C. hircus. Furthermore, bone artefacts made from Cervidae specimens seem to be utilised in a wider range of artefact types compared to O. aries/ C. hircus. Coro Trasito’s bone artefact species composition is probably site-specific to some degree, however, morphological assessments of bone artefacts might not be representative and could be biased towards certain species. Therefore, research on bone artefacts’ usage could possibly gain new insights by implementing ZooMS in combination with traceology.

          Related collections

          Most cited references99

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: found
          • Article: found
          Is Open Access

          Welcome to the Tidyverse

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Differential Burning, Recrystallization, and Fragmentation of Archaeological Bone

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: found
              • Article: not found

              Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne.

              In Western Europe, the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition is associated with the disappearance of Neandertals and the spread of anatomically modern humans (AMHs). Current chronological, behavioral, and biological models of this transitional period hinge on the Châtelperronian technocomplex. At the site of the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, morphological Neandertal specimens are not directly dated but are contextually associated with the Châtelperronian, which contains bone points and beads. The association between Neandertals and this "transitional" assemblage has been controversial because of the lack either of a direct hominin radiocarbon date or of molecular confirmation of the Neandertal affiliation. Here we provide further evidence for a Neandertal-Châtelperronian association at the Grotte du Renne through biomolecular and chronological analysis. We identified 28 additional hominin specimens through zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS) screening of morphologically uninformative bone specimens from Châtelperronian layers at the Grotte du Renne. Next, we obtain an ancient hominin bone proteome through liquid chromatography-MS/MS analysis and error-tolerant amino acid sequence analysis. Analysis of this palaeoproteome allows us to provide phylogenetic and physiological information on these ancient hominin specimens. We distinguish Late Pleistocene clades within the genus Homo based on ancient protein evidence through the identification of an archaic-derived amino acid sequence for the collagen type X, alpha-1 (COL10α1) protein. We support this by obtaining ancient mtDNA sequences, which indicate a Neandertal ancestry for these specimens. Direct accelerator mass spectometry radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modeling confirm that the hominin specimens date to the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne.
                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Formal analysis
                Role: Formal analysisRole: Investigation
                Role: Investigation
                Role: Funding acquisitionRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Editor
                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS One
                plos
                PLOS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                10 July 2024
                2024
                : 19
                : 7
                : e0306448
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
                [2 ] Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
                [3 ] Departamento de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, Diputación General de Aragón, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
                [4 ] Departamento de Arqueología y Antropología, Institución Milá y Fontanals de Estudios en Humanidades (IMF), del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
                Goethe University Frankfurt: Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5795-1761
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2903-7846
                https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5863-0498
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0457-4805
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8344-0639
                Article
                PONE-D-24-15177
                10.1371/journal.pone.0306448
                11236160
                38985699
                29c79094-3843-4f2f-9a1f-c2889fd2b385
                © 2024 Hansen et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 15 April 2024
                : 18 June 2024
                Page count
                Figures: 8, Tables: 0, Pages: 21
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010665, H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions;
                Award ID: 956351
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad;
                Award ID: PID2020-115715GB-I00
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad;
                Award ID: PID2020-115205GB-100
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010663, H2020 European Research Council;
                Award ID: 948365
                Award Recipient :
                This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956351 (ChemArch), M.S. In addition, this research has been made possible through funding of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain: PID2020-115715GB-I00 (M.S.), PID2020-115205GB-100 (I.C. and E.G.), ICREA Academia by M.S., and from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, grant agreement no. 948365, awarded to F.W. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
                Categories
                Research Article
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Paleontology
                Paleoanthropology
                Earth Sciences
                Paleontology
                Paleoanthropology
                Social Sciences
                Anthropology
                Physical Anthropology
                Paleoanthropology
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Physical Anthropology
                Paleoanthropology
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Taxonomy
                Computer and Information Sciences
                Data Management
                Taxonomy
                Social Sciences
                Archaeology
                Earth Sciences
                Geology
                Geologic Time
                Stone Age
                Neolithic Period
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Biochemistry
                Proteins
                Post-Translational Modification
                Deamidation
                Engineering and Technology
                Industrial Engineering
                Process Engineering
                Industrial Processes
                Manufacturing Processes
                Surface Treatments
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Plant Science
                Plant Taxonomy
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Taxonomy
                Plant Taxonomy
                Computer and Information Sciences
                Data Management
                Taxonomy
                Plant Taxonomy
                Physical Sciences
                Materials Science
                Materials
                Ceramics
                Custom metadata
                Data is available from the repository Zenodo [ 77] (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10973909).

                Uncategorized
                Uncategorized

                Comments

                Comment on this article