Search results for "Biomolecular archaeology"

Approches protéomiques en archéologie et héritage culturel : caractérisation de protéines anciennes préservées dans des coquilles de mollusques

2021

Archaeological mollusc shell artifacts and ecofacts are valuable sources to study past cultures and provide insights on how people exploited their environments. Mollusc shells were often used as raw materials to make personal ornaments and are abundantly found in archaeological sites. However, minute, heavily worked and/or fragmented shell ornaments are rarely identified at different taxonomic levels, due to limited availability of analytical approaches to determine taxon-specific (diagnostic) features. In recent years, proteomics, which exploits the high sensitivity of modern mass spectrometry techniques, has been successfully applied to the study of a variety of bioarchaeological remains,…