Bronze Age meat industry: ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria).
BMC Res Notes
; 11(1): 243, 2018 Apr 13.
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ABSTRACT
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.Mots clés
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Sujet principal:
ADN mitochondrial
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Chlorure de sodium
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Analyse de séquence d'ADN
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Sus scrofa
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ADN ancien
Limites:
Animals
Pays/Région comme sujet:
Europa
Langue:
En
Journal:
BMC Res Notes
Année:
2018
Type de document:
Article
Pays d'affiliation:
Autriche