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Bronze Age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria)
OBJECTIVE: In the Bronze Age Hallstatt metropolis (‘Salzkammergut’ region, Upper Austria), salt richness enabled the preservation of pork meat to sustain people’s livelihood suggesting an organized meat production industry on a yearly basis of hundreds of pigs. To pattern the geographic and temporal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5899323/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29653594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3340-7 |
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author | Hammer, Sabine E. Tautscher, Barbara Pucher, Erich Kowarik, Kerstin Reschreiter, Hans Kern, Anton Haring, Elisabeth |
author_facet | Hammer, Sabine E. Tautscher, Barbara Pucher, Erich Kowarik, Kerstin Reschreiter, Hans Kern, Anton Haring, Elisabeth |
author_sort | Hammer, Sabine E. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: In the Bronze Age Hallstatt metropolis (‘Salzkammergut’ region, Upper Austria), salt richness enabled the preservation of pork meat to sustain people’s livelihood suggesting an organized meat production industry on a yearly basis of hundreds of pigs. To pattern the geographic and temporal framework of the early management of pig populations in the surrounding areas of Hallstatt, we want to gain insights into the phylogeographic network based on DNA sequence variation among modern pigs, wild boars and prehistoric (likely) domestic pigs. RESULTS: In this pilot study, we successfully adapted ancient DNA extraction and sequencing approaches for the analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in ten prehistoric porcine teeth specimens. Minimum-spanning network analyses revealed unique mitochondrial control region DNA haplotypes ranging within the variation of modern domestic pig and wild boar lineages and even shared haplotypes between prehistoric and modern domestic pigs and wild boars were observed. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-3340-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-58993232018-04-20 Bronze Age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria) Hammer, Sabine E. Tautscher, Barbara Pucher, Erich Kowarik, Kerstin Reschreiter, Hans Kern, Anton Haring, Elisabeth BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: In the Bronze Age Hallstatt metropolis (‘Salzkammergut’ region, Upper Austria), salt richness enabled the preservation of pork meat to sustain people’s livelihood suggesting an organized meat production industry on a yearly basis of hundreds of pigs. To pattern the geographic and temporal framework of the early management of pig populations in the surrounding areas of Hallstatt, we want to gain insights into the phylogeographic network based on DNA sequence variation among modern pigs, wild boars and prehistoric (likely) domestic pigs. RESULTS: In this pilot study, we successfully adapted ancient DNA extraction and sequencing approaches for the analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in ten prehistoric porcine teeth specimens. Minimum-spanning network analyses revealed unique mitochondrial control region DNA haplotypes ranging within the variation of modern domestic pig and wild boar lineages and even shared haplotypes between prehistoric and modern domestic pigs and wild boars were observed. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-3340-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5899323/ /pubmed/29653594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3340-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Hammer, Sabine E. Tautscher, Barbara Pucher, Erich Kowarik, Kerstin Reschreiter, Hans Kern, Anton Haring, Elisabeth Bronze Age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria) |
title | Bronze Age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria) |
title_full | Bronze Age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria) |
title_fullStr | Bronze Age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria) |
title_full_unstemmed | Bronze Age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria) |
title_short | Bronze Age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria) |
title_sort | bronze age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial dna analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of hallstatt (austria) |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5899323/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29653594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3340-7 |
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