How Subjectivity Strengthens Research: Developing an Integrative Approach to Investigating Human Diet in the Pacific Northwest Coast
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 121, Heft 2, S. 476-478
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 121, Heft 2, S. 476-478
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 120, Heft 2, S. 328-329
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 117, Heft 4, S. 743-744
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 121, Heft 2, S. 478-479
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Human biology: the international journal of population genetics and anthropology ; the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, Band 73, Heft 1, S. 17-55
ISSN: 1534-6617
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 120, Heft 2, S. 343-344
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In: Magallania: anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, serie ciencias humanas, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 119-131
ISSN: 0718-2244
In: Human biology: the international journal of population genetics and anthropology ; the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, Band 87, Heft 1, S. 71
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In: Human biology: the international journal of population genetics and anthropology ; the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 55-75
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In: Human biology: the international journal of population genetics and anthropology ; the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 33-54
ISSN: 1534-6617
The oldest known shipwreck in southern Africa was found in Namibia in 2008. Forty tons of cargo, including gold and silver coins, helped identify the ship as the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese nau (trading vessel) lost in 1533 while headed to India. The cargo included >100 elephant tusks, which we examined using paleogenomic and stable isotope analyses. Nuclear DNA identified the ivory source as African forest (Loxodonta cyclotis) rather than savanna (Loxodonta africana) elephants. Mitochondrial sequences traced them to West and not Central Africa and from ≥17 herds with distinct haplotypes. Four of the haplotypes are known from modern populations; others were potentially lost to subsequent hunting of elephants for ivory. Stable isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) indicated that the elephants were not from deep rainforests but from savanna and mixed habitats. Such habitats surround the Guinean forest block of West Africa and accord with the locations of major historic Portuguese trading ports. West African forest elephants currently range into savanna habitats; our findings suggest that this was not consequent to regional decimation of savanna elephants for their ivory in the 19th and 20th centuries. During the time of the Bom Jesus, ivory was a central driver in the formation of maritime trading systems connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia. Our integration of paleogenomic, archeological, and historical methods to analyze the Bom Jesus ivory provides a framework for examining vast collections of archaeological ivories around the world, in shipwrecks and other contexts. ; Supplemental Information: Document S1. Figures S1–S3, Tables S1–S5, and Supplemental References. ; US Fish and Wildlife Service African Elephant Conservation, South African Research Chairs Initiative of the National Research Foundation (NRF), Department of Science and Technology of South Africa, US Department of Agriculture, PEEC and Clark Research Support Grants, Claude Leon Foundation and the European Union. ; http://www.cell.com/current-biology/home ...
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In: Human biology: the international journal of population genetics and anthropology ; the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics
ISSN: 1534-6617
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 117, Heft 4, S. 736-737
ISSN: 1548-1433