PXD030529-1

PXD030529 is an original dataset announced via ProteomeXchange.

Title	Palaeoproteomics identifies beaver fur and fur trade in Danish high-status Viking Age burials
Description	Fur 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.
HostingRepository	PRIDE
AnnounceDate	2022-06-07
AnnouncementXML	Submission_2022-06-07_01:21:13.153.xml
DigitalObjectIdentifier
ReviewLevel	Peer-reviewed dataset
DatasetOrigin	Original dataset
RepositorySupport	Unsupported dataset by repository
PrimarySubmitter	Meaghan 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;
ModificationList	monohydroxylated residue; iodoacetamide derivatized residue; deamidated residue
Instrument	Orbitrap Exploris 480; Q Exactive HF-X

Revision	Datetime	Status	ChangeLog Entry
0	2021-12-19 04:50:47	ID requested
⏵ 1	2022-06-07 01:21:13	announced

Dataset with its publication pending

submitter keyword: Viking Age, animal fur, clothing, fur trade, ancient DNA, palaeoproteomics, peptide mass fingerprinting, LC-MS/MS, species identification, keratin

Matthew Collins
contact affiliation	The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen
contact email	matthew@palaeome.org
lab head
Meaghan Mackie
contact affiliation	University of Copenhagen
contact email	meaghan@palaeome.org
dataset submitter

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PRIDE project URI

• PRIDE
  1. PXD030529
     1. Label: PRIDE project
     2. Name: Palaeoproteomics identifies beaver fur and fur trade in Danish high-status Viking Age burials