PXD057401-1

PXD057401 is an original dataset announced via ProteomeXchange.

Title	Fresh insights into sex-specific mobility in Copper Age Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal) provided by amelogenin peptide analysis
Description	Sex determination through amelogenin peptides from dental enamel has, in recent years, opened new possibilities to the study of prehistoric demography. Although this technique can be used on teeth of any chronology, it bears especial significance for the analysis of prehistoric collective burials, where bone remains often appear commingled and disarticulated, which makes sexual determination extremely difficult or even impossible. Traditionally, the impossibility to sex buried subjects has prevented making assessments in social or demographic terms for which gender was a key aspect, including mobility, diet, social inequality or ancestry, among others. In this paper, sex data of 34 individuals from the Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic site of Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal) obtained through amelogenin peptides analysis of dental enamel are presented. This new evidence is of great relevance at a site in which the large majority of the vast collection of human remains discovered so far (MNI = 551) are heavily commingled and highly fragmented. Interpretation of the results proceeds at two levels: i) firstly we consider the chronological and spatial distribution of the funerary structures: ii) secondly, we look into the Sr values available for each of them. The results show a greater number of male (n=6) than female (n=2) individuals among local subjects, and a balance between men (n=13) and women (n=13) for non-local ones, suggesting similar residential mobility for both sexes. These results are assessed within the context of the evidence available both for the Iberian Peninsula and the European continent. The greater female mobility observed at sites with similar chronologies in Central Europe, which has been interpreted in terms of female exogamy and patrilocality, is not replicated at Perdigões, where men and women present similar values.
HostingRepository	PRIDE
AnnounceDate	2025-04-11
AnnouncementXML	Submission_2025-04-11_02:23:06.783.xml
DigitalObjectIdentifier
ReviewLevel	Peer-reviewed dataset
DatasetOrigin	Original dataset
RepositorySupport	Unsupported dataset by repository
PrimarySubmitter	Claire Koenig
SpeciesList	scientific name: Homo sapiens (Human); NCBI TaxID: 9606;
ModificationList	No PTMs are included in the dataset
Instrument	Orbitrap Exploris 480

Revision	Datetime	Status	ChangeLog Entry
0	2024-10-31 07:58:30	ID requested
⏵ 1	2025-04-11 02:23:07	announced

10.1007/S12520-025-02205-7;

submitter keyword: Proteomics

Sex determination

PRM

Neolithic

Iberia

Jesper V. Olsen
contact affiliation	Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
contact email	jesper.olsen@cpr.ku.dk
lab head
Claire Koenig
contact affiliation	Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen
contact email	claire.koenig@cpr.ku.dk
dataset submitter

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  1. PXD057401
     1. Label: PRIDE project
     2. Name: Fresh insights into sex-specific mobility in Copper Age Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal) provided by amelogenin peptide analysis