Palaeoproteomic identification of a whale bone tool from Bronze Age Heiloo, the Netherlands
J. A. A. Dekker, D. Mylopotamitaki, A. Verbaas, V. Sinet-Mathiot, S. Presslee, M. L. McCarthy, M. T. Olsen, J. V. Olsen, Y. van den Hurk, J. Brattinga, F. 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.
bioRxiv · Apr 15, 2024Evolutionary Biology