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PXD030529

PXD030529 is an original dataset announced via ProteomeXchange.

Dataset Summary
TitlePalaeoproteomics identifies beaver fur and fur trade in Danish high-status Viking Age burials
DescriptionFur is known from contemporary written sources to have been a key commodity in the Viking Age. Nevertheless, the fur trade has been notoriously difficult to study archaeologically as fur rarely survives in the archaeological record. In Denmark, fur finds are rare and fur in clothing has been limited to a few reports and not recorded systematically. We were therefore given access to fur from six Danish high status graves dated to the Viking Age. The fur was analysed by aDNA and palaeoproteomics methods to identify the species of origin in order to explore the Viking Age fur trade. Endogenous aDNA was not recovered, but fur proteins (keratins) were analysed by MALDI-TOF and LC-MS/MS. We show that Viking Age skin clothing were often composites of several species, showing highly developed manufacturing and material knowledge. For example, fur was produced from wild animals while leather was made of domesticates. Several examples of beaver fur were identified, a species which is not native to Denmark, and therefore indicative of trade. We argue that beaver fur was a luxury commodity, limited to the elite and worn as an easily recognisable indicator of social status.
HostingRepositoryPRIDE
AnnounceDate2022-06-07
AnnouncementXMLSubmission_2022-06-07_01:21:13.153.xml
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ReviewLevelPeer-reviewed dataset
DatasetOriginOriginal dataset
RepositorySupportUnsupported dataset by repository
PrimarySubmitterMeaghan Mackie
SpeciesList scientific name: Mustela sp.; NCBI TaxID: 30549; scientific name: Castor; NCBI TaxID: 10184; scientific name: Ovis aries; NCBI TaxID: 9940; scientific name: Sciuridae; NCBI TaxID: 55153;
ModificationListmonohydroxylated residue; iodoacetamide derivatized residue; deamidated residue
InstrumentOrbitrap Exploris 480; Q Exactive HF-X
Dataset History
RevisionDatetimeStatusChangeLog Entry
02021-12-19 04:50:47ID requested
12022-06-07 01:21:13announced
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Dataset with its publication pending
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submitter keyword: Viking Age, animal fur, clothing, fur trade, ancient DNA, palaeoproteomics, peptide mass fingerprinting, LC-MS/MS, species identification, keratin
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Matthew Collins
contact affiliationThe GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen
contact emailmatthew@palaeome.org
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Meaghan Mackie
contact affiliationUniversity of Copenhagen
contact emailmeaghan@palaeome.org
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