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Scrapheap challenge: a novel bulk-bone metabarcoding method to investigate ancient DNA in faunal assemblages.
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- Ancient DNA analysis of food remains in human dental calculus from the Edo period, Japan.PloS one · 2020Article
- Micro Methods for Megafauna: Novel Approaches to Late Quaternary Extinctions and Their Contributions to Faunal Conservation in the Anthropocene.Bioscience · 2019Article
- Unlocking the potential of ancient fish DNA in the genomic era.Evolutionary applications · 2019Article
- Combining ZooMS and zooarchaeology to study Late Pleistocene hominin behaviour at Fumane (Italy).Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Subsistence practices, past biodiversity, and anthropogenic impacts revealed by New Zealand-wide ancient DNA survey.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Semi-supervised machine learning for automated species identification by collagen peptide mass fingerprinting.BMC bioinformatics · 2018Article
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Abstract
Highly fragmented and morphologically indistinct fossil bone is common in archaeological and paleontological deposits but unfortunately it is of little use in compiling faunal assemblages. The development of a cost-effective methodology to taxonomically identify bulk bone is therefore a key challenge. Here, an ancient DNA methodology using high-throughput sequencing is developed to survey and analyse thousands of archaeological bones from southwest Australia. Fossils were collectively ground together depending on which of fifteen stratigraphical layers they were excavated from. By generating fifteen synthetic blends of bulk bone powder, each corresponding to a chronologically distinct layer, samples could be collectively analysed in an efficient manner. A diverse range of taxa, including endemic, extirpated and hitherto unrecorded taxa, dating back to c.46,000 years BP was characterized. The method is a novel, cost-effective use for unidentifiable bone fragments and a powerful molecular tool for surveying fossils that otherwise end up on the taxonomic "scrapheap".
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