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Proteomics and Coast Salish blankets: a tale of shaggy dogs?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2011

Caroline Solazzo ,
Susan Heald ,
Mary W. Ballard ,
David A. Ashford ,
Paula T. DePriest ,
Robert J. Koestler  and
Matthew J. Collins
Caroline Solazzo
Affiliation:
1Departments of Biology, Archaeology and Chemistry, BioArCh, University of York, P.O. Box 373, York YO10 5YW, UK (correspondence email: [email protected]) 2Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, USA
Susan Heald
Affiliation:
3National Museum of the American Indian, Cultural Resources Center (CRC), 4220 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, USA
Mary W. Ballard
Affiliation:
2Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, USA
David A. Ashford
Affiliation:
4Proteomics and Analytical Biochemistry Laboratory, Technology Facility, Department of Biology and Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry, University of York, P.O. Box 373, York YO10 5YW, UK
Paula T. DePriest
Affiliation:
2Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, USA
Robert J. Koestler
Affiliation:
2Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, USA
Matthew J. Collins
Affiliation:
1Departments of Biology, Archaeology and Chemistry, BioArCh, University of York, P.O. Box 373, York YO10 5YW, UK (correspondence email: [email protected])
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Identifying animals to species from relict proteins is a powerful new archaeological tool. Here the authors apply the method to answer questions relating to the Salish of west coast North America. Did they weave their blankets out of dog hair? The proteomic analysis shows that they did, interweaving it with goat, and that the woolly dog was increasingly superseded by sheep in the later nineteenth century.

Keywords

North Americanineteenth centuryCoast Salishtextilessheepgoatwoolly dog
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Research article
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Antiquity , Volume 85 , Issue 330 , December 2011 , pp. 1418 - 1432
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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