Blar i Institutt for arkeologi og kulturhistorie på forfatter "Barrett, James"
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An accurate assignment test for extremely low-coverage whole-genome sequence data
Ferrari, Giada; Atmore, Lane Margaret; Jentoft, Sissel; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Makowiecki, Daniel; Barrett, James; Star, Bastiaan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Genomic assignment tests can provide important diagnostic biological characteristics, such as population of origin or ecotype. Yet, assignment tests often rely on moderate- to high-coverage sequence data that can be difficult ... -
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe
Martinez Garcia, Lourdes; Ferrari, Giada; Cuevas, Angelica; Atmore, Lane Margaret; López-Arias, Begoña; Culling, Mark; Llorente-Rodríguez, Laura; Morales-Muñiz, Arturo; Roselló-Izquierdo, Eufrasia; Quirós, Juan Antonio; Marlasca-Martín, Ricard; Hänfling, Bernd; Hutchinson, William F.; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Jentoft, Sissel; Orton, David; Star, Bastiaan; Barrett, James (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Understanding the historical emergence and growth of long-range fisheries can provide fundamental insights into the timing of ecological impacts and the development of coastal communities during the last millennium. ... -
Ancient DNA sequence quality is independent of fish bone weight
Atmore, Lane Margaret; Ferrari, Giada; Martinez Garcia, Lourdes; van der Jagt, Inge; Blevis, Rachel; Granado, José; Häberle, Simone; Dierickx, Katrien; Quinlan, Liz M.; Lõugas, Lembi; Makowiecki, Daniel; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Barrett, James; Star, Bastiaan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The field of ancient DNA (aDNA) typically uses between 50 and 200 mg of minimum input weight of bone material for the extraction of DNA from archaeological remains. While laboratory and analysis techniques have focused on ... -
Crossing the ice: an Iron Age to medieval mountain pass at Lendbreen, Norway
Pilø, Lars Holger; Finstad, Espen; Barrett, James (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Mountain passes have played a key role in past mobility, facilitating transhumance, intra-regional travel and long-distance exchange. Current global warming has revealed an example of such a pass at Lendbreen, Norway. ... -
Ecological globalisation, serial depletion and the medieval trade of walrus rostra
Barrett, James; Boessenkool, Sanne; O'Connell, Tamsin C; Kneale, Catherine; Star, Bastiaan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The impacts of early ecological globalisation may have had profound economic and environmental consequences for human settlements and animal populations. Here, we review the extent of such historical impacts by investigating ... -
Historical demographic processes dominate genetic variation in ancient Atlantic cod mitogenomes
Martinez Garcia, Lourdes; Ferrari, Giada; Oosting, Tom; Ballantyne, Rachel; van der Jagt, Inge; Ystgaard, Ingrid; Harland, Jennifer; Nicholson, Rebecca; Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila; Baalsrud, Helle Tessand; Brieuc, Marine Servane Ono; Atmore, Lane; Burns, Finlay; Schmölcke, Ulrich; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Jentoft, Sissel; Orton, David; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Barrett, James; Star, Bastiaan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Ancient DNA (aDNA) approaches have been successfully used to infer the long-term impacts of climate change, domestication, and human exploitation in a range of terrestrial species. Nonetheless, studies investigating such ... -
New challenges for the Human Oceans Past agenda
Holm, Poul; Barrett, James; Brito, Cristina; Ludlow, Francis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We contend that the harvest of marine resources played a critical, but as yet underappreciated and poorly understood, role in global history. In a review of the field of marine environmental history and archaeology we ... -
On a Mountain High: Finding and Documenting Glacial Archaeological Sites During the Anthropocene
Pilø, Lars; Finstad, Espen; Wammer, Elling Utvik; Post-Melbye, Julian Robert; Rømer, Axel Hee; Andersen, Øystein Rønning; Barrett, James (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Glacial archaeology is a developing field, brought on by climate change. High mountain ice is melting, which has led to the exposure of artifacts in North America, Mongolia, the Alps, and Scandinavia. The highest number ... -
Ötzi, 30 years on: A reappraisal of the depositional and post-depositional history of the find
Pilø, Lars; Reitmaier, Thomas; Fischer, Andrea; Barrett, James; Nesje, Atle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)When Ötzi, the Iceman, was found in a gully in the Tisenjoch pass in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, he was a huge surprise for the archaeological community. The lead initial investigator of the find argued that it was unique, ... -
Population dynamics of Baltic herring since the Viking Age revealed by ancient DNA and genomics
Atmore, Lane Margaret; Martinez Garcia, Lourdes; Makowiecki, Daniel; André, Carl; Lõugas, Lembi; Barrett, James; Star, Bastiaan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The world’s oceans are currently facing major stressors in the form of overexploitation and anthropogenic climate change. The Baltic Sea was home to the first “industrial” fishery ∼800 y ago targeting the Baltic herring, ... -
Unlocking the potential of ancient fish DNA in the genomic era
Oosting, Tom; Star, Bastiaan; Barrett, James; Wellenreuther, Maren; Richie, Peter; Rawlence, Nicolas J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates, fulfil important ecological functions and are of significant economic interest for aquaculture and wild fisheries. Advances in DNA extraction methods, sequencing technologies ... -
Walruses on the Dnieper: new evidence for the intercontinental trade of Greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages
Barrett, James; Khamaiko, Natalia; Ferrari, Giada; Cuevas, Angelica; Kneale, Catherine; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Palsdottir, Albina Hulda; Star, Bastiaan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Mediaeval walrus hunting in Iceland and Greenland—driven by Western European demand for ivory and walrus hide ropes—has been identified as an important pre-modern example of ecological globalization. By contrast, the main ...