• Grouping groupers in the Mediterranean: Ecological baselines revealed by ancient proteins 

      Winter, Rachel M.; de Kock, Willemien; Mackie, Meaghan; Ramsøe, Max; Desiderà, Elena; Collins, Matthew; Guidetti, Paolo; Presslee, Samantha; Alegre, Marta Munoz; Oueslati, Tarek; Muniz, Arturo Morales; Michailidis, Dimitris; van den Hurk, Youri; Taurozzi, Alberto J.; Çakirlar, Canan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Marine historical ecology provides a means to establish baselines to inform current fisheries management. Groupers (Epinephelidae) are key species for fisheries in the Mediterranean, which have been heavily overfished. ...
    • The prelude to industrial whaling: Identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting 

      van den Hurk, Youri; Sikström, Fanny; Amkreutz, Luc; Bleasdale, Madeleine; Borvon, Aurélia; Ephrem, Brice; Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos; Gibbs, Hannah M. B.; Jonsson, Leif; Lehouck, Alexander; Cedeira, Jose Martínez; Meng, Stefan; Monge, Rui; Moreno, Marta; Nabais, Mariana; Nores, Carlos; Pis-Millán, José Antonio; Riddler, Ian; Schmölcke, Ulrich; Segschneider, Martin; Speller, Camilla; Vretemark, Maria; Wickler, Stephen Kent; Collins, Matthew; Nadeau, Marie-Josee; Barrett, James Harold (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Taxonomic identification of whale bones found during archaeological excavations is problematic due to their typically fragmented state. This difficulty limits understanding of both the past spatio-temporal distributions ...