Palaeoproteomic identification of a whale bone tool from Bronze Age Heiloo, the Netherlands
Joannes Adrianus Antonius Dekker, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Annemieke Verbaas, Virginie Sinet‐Mathiot, Samantha Presslee, Morgan L. McCarthy, Morten Tange Olsen, Jesper V. Olsen, Youri van den Hurk, Joris Brattinga, Frido Welker
The paper identifies a Bronze Age bone tool from the Netherlands as North Atlantic right whale bone using palaeoproteomic methods and finds it was used for plant fibre processing.
Peer Community Journal · Aug 30, 2024Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology