From ideology to economy: unveiling the taxonomic origin of animal bone artefacts with palaeoproteomic analysis

ChemArch is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie innovative training network (ITN) constituted by 15 interlinked, fully funded, double degree PhD projects between four participating institutions; CNRS, University of York, Universitat de Autònoma de Barcelona, and University of Copenhagen along with 20 project partners, providing international doctoral training for the next generation of artefact scientists in archaeological chemistry and biomolecular archaeology. The training is conducted by Europe’s leading archaeological scientists and covers the topics; aDNA, archaeogenomics, lipid residue analysis, palaeoproteomics, stable isotope analysis, use-wear and microscopic residues, experimental archaeology, and biomolecular preservation and degradation.

One of these PhD projects, the ESR12 project, ‘From ideology to economy: unveiling the taxonomic origin of animal bone artefacts with palaeoproteomic analysis’, focuses on the taxonomic identification of bone artefacts as well as bone fragments from the Upper Late Palaeolithic to the Early Neolithic located within the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. By taxonomically identifying bone objects through palaeoproteomic methods (ZooMS, SPIN), otherwise not possible via morphological measures, it will create a window to discuss strategies in bone tool manufacture from new perspectives.

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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement ChemArch No 956351.