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1. Rewilding through inappropriate species introduction: The case of European bison in Spain

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Carlos Nores, Diego Álvarez‐Laó, Alberto Navarro, Francisco Javier Pérez‐Barbería, Pedro María Castaños, Jone Castaños de la Fuente, Arturo Morales Muñiz, Concepción Azorit, Joaquín Muñoz‐Cobo, Carlos Fernández Delgado, Carlos Granado Lorencio, Paul Palmqvist, Ramón Soriguer, Miguel Delibes, Montserrat Vilà, Miguel Simón, Baltasar Cabezudo, Carmen Galán, Emili García‐Berthou, Ana Almodóvar, Benigno Elvira, Pedro Brufao Curiel, Adriá Casinos, Juan Herrero, Juan Carlos Blanco, Ricardo García‐González, David Nogués‐Bravo, Antoni Margalida, Brendan Fisher, Raphaël Arlettaz, Iain J. Gordon, Arne Ludwig, Sandro Lovari, Brian D. Cook, Juan Carranza, Sándor Csányi, Marco Apollonio, Rafał Kowalczyk, Steve Demarais, and José Vicente López‐Bao

Subjects
Bison, ecological restoration, Mediterranean, Rewilding, species introduction, Ecology, QH540-549.5, General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, QH1-199.5
Abstract

Abstract Most European rewilding initiatives are based on the recovery of large herbivores, particularly European bison Bison bonasus, aiming at restoring ecosystem processes and increase trophic complexity. The growing support for the release of bison as a wild species, and change its legal status, in Spain, as an ecological analogue of the extinct steppe bison Bison priscus, makes it an excellent example to reflect the limits of a rewilding biogeographically advisable. We discuss if this initiative could be justified from ecological, biogeographical, ethical, and legal reasons. Besides remarkable taxonomic and functional differences between both bison species, the Mediterranean environment, under the present and future climatic scenarios, does not suit the European bison. Furthermore, there is no evidence to support the presumption that the European bison was ever present in the Iberian Peninsula, with legal implications. We expect that our approach will be inspirational for similar assessments on rewilding initiatives globally.

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2024
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2. The Zacatín rock shelter (Granada, Spain): New data on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the south-eastern Iberian coast

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Martínez Sánchez, Rafael M., Aguirre Uribesalgo, Amaia, Aparicio Alonso, Teresa, Bretones García, M. Dolores, Carrión Marco, Yolanda, Gámiz Caro, Jesús, Gutiérrez Frías, Ismael, Martínez-Sevilla, Francisco, Morales Muñiz, Arturo, Morgado Rodríguez, Antonio, Pérez-Jordà, Guillem, Roselló Izquierdo, Eufrasia, Vico Triguero, Laura, and Álvarez Fernández, Esteban

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2024
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4. Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history

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He Yu, Alexandra Jamieson, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, Chris J. Conroy, Becky Knight, Camilla Speller, Hiba Al-Jarah, Heidi Eager, Alexandra Trinks, Gamini Adikari, Henriette Baron, Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan, Wijerathne Bohingamuwa, Alison Crowther, Thomas Cucchi, Kinie Esser, Jeffrey Fleisher, Louisa Gidney, Elena Gladilina, Pavel Gol’din, Steven M. Goodman, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Richard Helm, Jesse C. Hillman, Nabil Kallala, Hanna Kivikero, Zsófia E. Kovács, Günther Karl Kunst, René Kyselý, Anna Linderholm, Bouthéina Maraoui-Telmini, Nemanja Marković, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Mariana Nabais, Terry O’Connor, Tarek Oueslati, Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Kerstin Pasda, Jude Perera, Nimal Perera, Silvia Radbauer, Joan Ramon, Eve Rannamäe, Joan Sanmartí Grego, Edward Treasure, Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas, Inge van der Jagt, Wim Van Neer, Jean-Denis Vigne, Thomas Walker, Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Jørn Zeiler, Keith Dobney, Nicole Boivin, Jeremy B. Searle, Ben Krause-Kyora, Johannes Krause, Greger Larson, and David Orton

Subjects
Science
Abstract

‘Archaeogenetic analysis of black rat remains reveals that this species was introduced into temperate Europe twice, in the Roman and medieval periods. This population turnover was likely associated with multiple historical and environmental factors.’

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2022
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5. Rewilding through inappropriate species introduction: The case of European bison in Spain.

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Nores, Carlos, Álvarez‐Laó, Diego, Navarro, Alberto, Pérez‐Barbería, Francisco Javier, Castaños, Pedro María, Castaños de la Fuente, Jone, Morales Muñiz, Arturo, Azorit, Concepción, Muñoz‐Cobo, Joaquín, Fernández Delgado, Carlos, Granado Lorencio, Carlos, Palmqvist, Paul, Soriguer, Ramón, Delibes, Miguel, Vilà, Montserrat, Simón, Miguel, Cabezudo, Baltasar, Galán, Carmen, García‐Berthou, Emili, and Almodóvar, Ana

Subjects
AMERICAN bison, BISON, RESTORATION ecology, LEGAL reasoning, STATUS (Law)
Abstract

Most European rewilding initiatives are based on the recovery of large herbivores, particularly European bison Bison bonasus, aiming at restoring ecosystem processes and increase trophic complexity. The growing support for the release of bison as a wild species, and change its legal status, in Spain, as an ecological analogue of the extinct steppe bison Bison priscus, makes it an excellent example to reflect the limits of a rewilding biogeographically advisable. We discuss if this initiative could be justified from ecological, biogeographical, ethical, and legal reasons. Besides remarkable taxonomic and functional differences between both bison species, the Mediterranean environment, under the present and future climatic scenarios, does not suit the European bison. Furthermore, there is no evidence to support the presumption that the European bison was ever present in the Iberian Peninsula, with legal implications. We expect that our approach will be inspirational for similar assessments on rewilding initiatives globally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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6. Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history

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Yu, He, Jamieson, Alexandra, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Conroy, Chris J., Knight, Becky, Speller, Camilla, Al-Jarah, Hiba, Eager, Heidi, Trinks, Alexandra, Adikari, Gamini, Baron, Henriette, Böhlendorf-Arslan, Beate, Bohingamuwa, Wijerathne, Crowther, Alison, Cucchi, Thomas, Esser, Kinie, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Gidney, Louisa, Gladilina, Elena, Gol’din, Pavel, Goodman, Steven M., Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila, Helm, Richard, Hillman, Jesse C., Kallala, Nabil, Kivikero, Hanna, Kovács, Zsófia E., Kunst, Günther Karl, Kyselý, René, Linderholm, Anna, Maraoui-Telmini, Bouthéina, Marković, Nemanja, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Nabais, Mariana, O’Connor, Terry, Oueslati, Tarek, Quintana Morales, Eréndira M., Pasda, Kerstin, Perera, Jude, Perera, Nimal, Radbauer, Silvia, Ramon, Joan, Rannamäe, Eve, Sanmartí Grego, Joan, Treasure, Edward, Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia, van der Jagt, Inge, Van Neer, Wim, Vigne, Jean-Denis, Walker, Thomas, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, Zeiler, Jørn, Dobney, Keith, Boivin, Nicole, Searle, Jeremy B., Krause-Kyora, Ben, Krause, Johannes, Larson, Greger, and Orton, David

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2022
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7. Ancient DNA SNP-panel data suggests stability in bluefin tuna genetic diversity despite centuries of fluctuating catches in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean

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Adam J. Andrews, Gregory N. Puncher, Darío Bernal-Casasola, Antonio Di Natale, Francesco Massari, Vedat Onar, Nezir Yaşar Toker, Alex Hanke, Scott A. Pavey, Castrense Savojardo, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio, Elisabetta Cilli, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Barbara Mantovani, Fausto Tinti, and Alessia Cariani

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

Abstract Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus; BFT) abundance was depleted in the late 20th and early 21st century due to overfishing. Historical catch records further indicate that the abundance of BFT in the Mediterranean has been fluctuating since at least the 16th century. Here we build upon previous work on ancient DNA of BFT in the Mediterranean by comparing contemporary (2009–2012) specimens with archival (1911–1926) and archaeological (2nd century BCE–15th century CE) specimens that represent population states prior to these two major periods of exploitation, respectively. We successfully genotyped and analysed 259 contemporary and 123 historical (91 archival and 32 archaeological) specimens at 92 SNP loci that were selected for their ability to differentiate contemporary populations or their association with core biological functions. We found no evidence of genetic bottlenecks, inbreeding or population restructuring between temporal sample groups that might explain what has driven catch fluctuations since the 16th century. We also detected a putative adaptive response, involving the cytoskeletal protein synemin which may be related to muscle stress. However, these results require further investigation with more extensive genome-wide data to rule out demographic changes due to overfishing, and other natural and anthropogenic factors, in addition to elucidating the adaptive drivers related to these.

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2021
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8. The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

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Librado, Pablo, Khan, Naveed, Fages, Antoine, Kusliy, Mariya A., Suchan, Tomasz, Tonasso-Calvière, Laure, Schiavinato, Stéphanie, Alioglu, Duha, Fromentier, Aurore, Perdereau, Aude, Aury, Jean-Marc, Gaunitz, Charleen, Chauvey, Lorelei, Seguin-Orlando, Andaine, Der Sarkissian, Clio, Southon, John, Shapiro, Beth, Tishkin, Alexey A., Kovalev, Alexey A., Alquraishi, Saleh, Alfarhan, Ahmed H., Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S., Seregély, Timo, Klassen, Lutz, Iversen, Rune, Bignon-Lau, Olivier, Bodu, Pierre, Olive, Monique, Castel, Jean-Christophe, Boudadi-Maligne, Myriam, Alvarez, Nadir, Germonpré, Mietje, Moskal-del Hoyo, Magdalena, Wilczyński, Jarosław, Pospuła, Sylwia, Lasota-Kuś, Anna, Tunia, Krzysztof, Nowak, Marek, Rannamäe, Eve, Saarma, Urmas, Boeskorov, Gennady, Lōugas, Lembi, Kyselý, René, Peške, Lubomír, Bălășescu, Adrian, Dumitrașcu, Valentin, Dobrescu, Roxana, Gerber, Daniel, Kiss, Viktória, Szécsényi-Nagy, Anna, Mende, Balázs G., Gallina, Zsolt, Somogyi, Krisztina, Kulcsár, Gabriella, Gál, Erika, Bendrey, Robin, Allentoft, Morten E., Sirbu, Ghenadie, Dergachev, Valentin, Shephard, Henry, Tomadini, Noémie, Grouard, Sandrine, Kasparov, Aleksei, Basilyan, Alexander E., Anisimov, Mikhail A., Nikolskiy, Pavel A., Pavlova, Elena Y., Pitulko, Vladimir, Brem, Gottfried, Wallner, Barbara, Schwall, Christoph, Keller, Marcel, Kitagawa, Keiko, Bessudnov, Alexander N., Bessudnov, Alexander, Taylor, William, Magail, Jérome, Gantulga, Jamiyan-Ombo, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Erdenebaatar, Diimaajav, Tabaldiev, Kubatbeek, Mijiddorj, Enkhbayar, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Tsagaan, Turbat, Pruvost, Mélanie, Olsen, Sandra, Makarewicz, Cheryl A., Valenzuela Lamas, Silvia, Albizuri Canadell, Silvia, Nieto Espinet, Ariadna, Iborra, Ma Pilar, Lira Garrido, Jaime, Rodríguez González, Esther, Celestino, Sebastián, Olària, Carmen, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Kotova, Nadiia, Pryor, Alexander, Crabtree, Pam, Zhumatayev, Rinat, Toleubaev, Abdesh, Morgunova, Nina L., Kuznetsova, Tatiana, Lordkipanize, David, Marzullo, Matilde, Prato, Ornella, Bagnasco Gianni, Giovanna, Tecchiati, Umberto, Clavel, Benoit, Lepetz, Sébastien, Davoudi, Hossein, Mashkour, Marjan, Berezina, Natalia Ya., Stockhammer, Philipp W., Krause, Johannes, Haak, Wolfgang, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Benecke, Norbert, Hofreiter, Michael, Ludwig, Arne, Graphodatsky, Alexander S., Peters, Joris, Kiryushin, Kirill Yu., Iderkhangai, Tumur-Ochir, Bokovenko, Nikolay A., Vasiliev, Sergey K., Seregin, Nikolai N., Chugunov, Konstantin V., Plasteeva, Natalya A., Baryshnikov, Gennady F., Petrova, Ekaterina, Sablin, Mikhail, Ananyevskaya, Elina, Logvin, Andrey, Shevnina, Irina, Logvin, Victor, Kalieva, Saule, Loman, Valeriy, Kukushkin, Igor, Merz, Ilya, Merz, Victor, Sakenov, Sergazy, Varfolomeyev, Victor, Usmanova, Emma, Zaibert, Viktor, Arbuckle, Benjamin, Belinskiy, Andrey B., Kalmykov, Alexej, Reinhold, Sabine, Hansen, Svend, Yudin, Aleksandr I., Vybornov, Alekandr A., Epimakhov, Andrey, Berezina, Natalia S., Roslyakova, Natalia, Kosintsev, Pavel A., Kuznetsov, Pavel F., Anthony, David, Kroonen, Guus J., Kristiansen, Kristian, Wincker, Patrick, Outram, Alan, and Orlando, Ludovic

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2021
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10. Ichthyoarchaeology

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Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Llorente-Rodriguez, Laura, Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel, Section editor, Fuller, Dorian Q., Section editor, and Smith, Claire, editor

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2020
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11. Fossils in Iberian prehistory: A review of the palaeozoological evidence

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Cortés-Sánchez, Miguel, Simón-Vallejo, María D., Corral, José-Carmelo, Lozano-Francisco, María del Carmen, Vera-Peláez, José Luis, Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J., García-Alix, Antonio, Heras, Carmen de las, Sánchez, Rafael Martínez, Bretones García, María Dolores, Barandiarán-Maestu, Ignacio, and Morales-Muñiz, Arturo

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2020
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14. Ancient DNA SNP-panel data suggests stability in bluefin tuna genetic diversity despite centuries of fluctuating catches in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean

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Andrews, Adam J., Puncher, Gregory N., Bernal-Casasola, Darío, Di Natale, Antonio, Massari, Francesco, Onar, Vedat, Toker, Nezir Yaşar, Hanke, Alex, Pavey, Scott A., Savojardo, Castrense, Martelli, Pier Luigi, Casadio, Rita, Cilli, Elisabetta, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Mantovani, Barbara, Tinti, Fausto, and Cariani, Alessia

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2021
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16. Vertebrae reveal industrial-era increases in Atlantic bluefin tuna catch-at-size and juvenile growth

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Adam J Andrews, Antonio Di Natale, Piero Addis, Federica Piattoni, Vedat Onar, Darío Bernal-Casasola, Veronica Aniceti, Gabriele Carenti, Verónica Gómez-Fernández, Fulvio Garibaldi, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Fausto Tinti, Andrews, Adam J, Di_Natale, Antonio, Addis, Piero, Piattoni, Federica, Onar, Vedat, Bernal-Casasola, Darío, Aniceti, Veronica, Carenti, Gabriele, Gómez-Fernández, Verónica, Garibaldi, Fulvio, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, and Tinti, Fausto

Subjects
Bluefin tuna, fishery-induced evolution, human impact, Ecology, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Abstract

Climate change and size-selective overexploitation can alter fish size and growth, yet our understanding of how and to what extent is limited due to a lack of long-term biological data from wild populations. This precludes our ability to effectively forecast population dynamics and support sustainable fisheries management. Using modern, archived, and archaeological vertebrae dimensions and growth rings of one of the most intensely exploited populations, the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus, BFT), we estimated catch-at-size and early-life growth patterns from the 3rd century bce to the 21st century ce to understand responses to changes in its environment. We provide novel evidence that BFT juvenile growth increased between the 16th–18th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and is correlated with a warming climate and likely a decrease in stock biomass. We found it equally plausible that fisheries-induced evolution has acted to increase juvenile BFT growth, driving earlier maturation as a result of size-selective exploitation. Coincidently, we found limited evidence to suggest a long history of large ( >200 cm FL) BFT capture. Instead, we found that the catch-at-size of archaeological BFT was relatively small in comparison with more intensive, 20th and 21st century tuna trap fisheries which operated further from shore. This complex issue would benefit from studies using fine-scale biochronological analyses of otoliths and adaptation genomics, throughout the last century especially, to determine evolutionary responses to exploitation, and further disentangle the influence of temperature and biomass on fish growth.

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2023
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17. Twenty-five thousand years of fluctuating selection on leopard complex spotting and congenital night blindness in horses

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Ludwig, Arne, Reissmann, Monika, Benecke, Norbert, Bellone, Rebecca, Sandoval-Castellanos, Edson, Cieslak, Michael, Fortes, Gloria G, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Hofreiter, Michael, and Pruvost, Melanie

Subjects
Genetics, Animals, Base Sequence, Bayes Theorem, DNA, DNA Mutational Analysis, DNA Primers, Europe, Eye Diseases, Hereditary, Fossils, Gene Frequency, Genetic Diseases, X-Linked, Genetic Variation, Hair Color, History, Ancient, History, Medieval, Horse Diseases, Horses, Molecular Sequence Data, Myopia, Night Blindness, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Selection, Genetic, TRPM Cation Channels, ancient DNA, coat colour, domestication, Equus, palaeogenetics, population, domestication, Equus, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Evolutionary Biology
Abstract

Leopard complex spotting is inherited by the incompletely dominant locus, LP, which also causes congenital stationary night blindness in homozygous horses. We investigated an associated single nucleotide polymorphism in the TRPM1 gene in 96 archaeological bones from 31 localities from Late Pleistocene (approx. 17 000 YBP) to medieval times. The first genetic evidence of LP spotting in Europe dates back to the Pleistocene. We tested for temporal changes in the LP associated allele frequency and estimated coefficients of selection by means of approximate Bayesian computation analyses. Our results show that at least some of the observed frequency changes are congruent with shifts in artificial selection pressure for the leopard complex spotting phenotype. In early domestic horses from Kirklareli-Kanligecit (Turkey) dating to 2700-2200 BC, a remarkably high number of leopard spotted horses (six of 10 individuals) was detected including one adult homozygote. However, LP seems to have largely disappeared during the late Bronze Age, suggesting selection against this phenotype in early domestic horses. During the Iron Age, LP reappeared, probably by reintroduction into the domestic gene pool from wild animals. This picture of alternating selective regimes might explain how genetic diversity was maintained in domestic animals despite selection for specific traits at different times.

Published
2015

18. Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?

Author

Llorente‐Rodriguez, Laura, Morales‐Muñiz, Arturo, and Roselló‐Izquierdo, Eufrasia

Subjects
*ARCHAEOLOGICAL assemblages, *MIDDLE Ages, *FISHING, *FISHERIES, *RELIGIONS, *CLASSIFICATION of fish, *CROSS-cultural differences
Abstract

Muslim religion has strict rules to determine what kinds of foodstuffs, and under what circumstances, are deemed appropriate for consumption. Fishes are not an exception to this rule and features such as body shape or the presence and conspicuousness of scales dictate whether certain species are acceptable or rejected. In this paper, an overview of the Iberian ichthyoarchaeological record from Muslim sites is presented to ascertain whether differences with Christian sites existed in terms of these characters and to what extent these allow one to take fish assemblages as cultural proxies of archaeological deposits. In the case of coastal (production) sites, we also consider whether the peculiarities a given fish assemblage exhibit reflect instead certain environmental features such as the biotopes where a given local fishery operated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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19. The Zacatín rock shelter (Granada, Spain): New data on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the south-eastern Iberian coast

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Martínez Sánchez, Rafael M., primary, Aguirre Uribesalgo, Amaia, additional, Aparicio Alonso, Teresa, additional, Bretones García, M. Dolores, additional, Carrión Marco, Yolanda, additional, Gámiz Caro, Jesús, additional, Gutiérrez Frías, Ismael, additional, Martínez-Sevilla, Francisco, additional, Morales Muñiz, Arturo, additional, Morgado Rodríguez, Antonio, additional, Pérez-Jordà, Guillem, additional, Roselló Izquierdo, Eufrasia, additional, Vico Triguero, Laura, additional, and Álvarez Fernández, Esteban, additional

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2023
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20. Resources and consumption patterns of livestock in Carthago Spartaria during the Byzantine age

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Juan E. PADILLA SÁNCHEZ, Arturo MORALES MUÑIZ, and Sebastián F. RAMALLO ASENSIO

Subjects
arqueofauna, basurero, dieta, teatro romano, cartagena, Archaeology, CC1-960
Abstract

This work presents the results from the analysis of the bone material from the Byzantine harbor quarter overlapping the Roman theater of Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena, Murcia). From a broad sample of 2,723 fragments from debris pits and garbage dumps, the production strategies and the consuming patterns of the livestock are established during a historical period of the city in which its appearance has nothing to do with the monumental image of a Roman town. The use of mixed farming is established, with a predominance of caprine and bovine versus a scant presence of suids and equines, as well as wild hunted fauna. Most of the animals, with the exception of goats and pigs, as well as certain bovines, were sacrificed in full adulthood. This implies that both their secondary products and their draft force were used. Livestock managing is confirmed as an important economic activity, at a moment when agricultural exploitation of the environment undergoes substantial diminishing as judged from the disappearance of the vast majority of rural sites from preceding decades. The represented livestock and the herding and maintenance conditions contribute to provide a “rural-like” image of the old Hispanic capital.

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2019
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23. An early Aurignacian arrival in southwestern Europe

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Cortés-Sánchez, Miguel, Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J., Simón-Vallejo, María D., Stringer, Chris, Lozano Francisco, María Carmen, García-Alix, Antonio, Vera Peláez, José L., Odriozola, Carlos P., Riquelme-Cantal, José A., Parrilla Giráldez, Rubén, Maestro González, Adolfo, Ohkouchi, Naohiko, and Morales-Muñiz, Arturo

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2019
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24. Investigating the global dispersal of chickens in prehistory using ancient mitochondrial DNA signatures.

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Storey, Alice, Athens, J, Bryant, David, Carson, Mike, Emery, Kitty, deFrance, Susan, Higham, Charles, Huynen, Leon, Intoh, Michiko, Jones, Sharyn, KIRCH, Patrick V., Ladefoged, Thegn, McCoy, Patrick, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Quiroz, Daniel, Reitz, Elizabeth, Robins, Judith, Walter, Richard, and Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth

Subjects
Animals, Chickens, DNA, Mitochondrial, Fossils, Haplotypes, Humans
Abstract

Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the dispersal of chickens from Asian domestication centers to their current global distribution. Each provides a unique perspective which can aid in the reconstruction of prehistory. This study expands on previous investigations by adding a temporal component from ancient DNA and, in some cases, direct dating of bones of individual chickens from a variety of sites in Europe, the Pacific, and the Americas. The results from the ancient DNA analyses of forty-eight archaeologically derived chicken bones provide support for archaeological hypotheses about the prehistoric human transport of chickens. Haplogroup E mtDNA signatures have been amplified from directly dated samples originating in Europe at 1000 B.P. and in the Pacific at 3000 B.P. indicating multiple prehistoric dispersals from a single Asian centre. These two dispersal pathways converged in the Americas where chickens were introduced both by Polynesians and later by Europeans. The results of this study also highlight the inappropriate application of the small stretch of D-loop, traditionally amplified for use in phylogenetic studies, to understanding discrete episodes of chicken translocation in the past. The results of this study lead to the proposal of four hypotheses which will require further scrutiny and rigorous future testing.

Published
2012

27. Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history

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Ben Krause-Kyora, Jørn Zeiler, Hiba Al-Jarah, Wijerathne Bohingamuwa, Becky Knight, Kinie Esser, Joan Ramon, Chris J. Conroy, Chris Hillman, Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan, Quintana Morales, Tarek Oueslati, Bouthéina Maraoui-Telmini, Jean-Denis Vigne, Nicole Boivin, Jude Perera, Silvia Radbauer, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, G. Adikari, Günther Karl Kunst, Heidi Eager, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Jeffrey Fleisher, Thomas Walker, Richard F. Helm, Thomas Cucchi, Terry O'Connor, Alison Crowther, Nimal Perera, Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas, Camilla Speller, Jeremy B. Searle, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Pavel Gol'din, Anna Linderholm, Nabil Kallala, Alexandra Trinks, Zsófia E. Kovács, He Yu, Johannes Krause, Louisa Gidney, E. V. Gladilina, Wim Van Neer, David Orton, Eréndira M., Alexandra Jamieson, Edward R. Treasure, Joan Sanmartí Grego, Mariana Nabais, Greger Larson, Hanna Kivikero, Inge van der Jagt, Eve Rannamäe, Keith Dobney, Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Henriette Baron, Steven M. Goodman, Kerstin Pasda, René Kyselý, Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa, Yu, He, Jamieson, Alexandra, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Conroy, Chris J., Speller, Camilla, Baron, Henriette, Crowther, Alison, Cucchi, Thomas, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Gladilina, Elena, Gol’din, Pavel, Goodman, Steven M., Kunst, Günther Karl, Linderholm, Anna, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Nabais, Mariana, Oueslati, Tarek, Quintana Morales, Eréndira M., Rannamäe, Eve, Sanmartí Grego, Joan, Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia, Neer, Wim Van, Vigne, Jean-Denis, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, Dobney, Keith, Boivin, Nicole, Searle, Jeremy B., Krause-Kyora, Ben, Krause, Johannes, Larson, Greger, Orton, David, Yu, He [0000-0003-1323-4730], Jamieson, Alexandra [0000-0003-0979-5762], Hulme-Beaman, Ardern [0000-0001-8130-9648], Conroy, Chris J. [0000-0001-7198-9651], Speller, Camilla [0000-0001-7128-9903], Baron, Henriette [0000-0003-4338-3681], Crowther, Alison [0000-0002-2394-1917], Cucchi, Thomas [0000-0001-6021-5001], Fleisher, Jeffrey [0000-0002-6505-9666], Gladilina, Elena [0000-0002-5114-7526], Gol’din, Pavel [0000-0001-6118-1384], Goodman, Steven M. [0000-0001-9318-0570], Kunst, Günther Karl [0000-0002-2175-8641], Linderholm, Anna [0000-0002-1613-9926], Morales-Muñiz, Arturo [0000-0002-9933-6836], Nabais, Mariana [0000-0001-5344-237X], Oueslati, Tarek [0000-0002-2886-085X], Quintana Morales, Eréndira M. [0000-0001-5927-5058], Rannamäe, Eve [0000-0003-1186-5512], Sanmartí Grego, Joan [0000-0002-6635-9249], Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia [0000-0001-9886-0372], Neer, Wim Van [0000-0003-1710-3623], Vigne, Jean-Denis [0000-0002-7367-7552], Wynne-Jones, Stephanie [0000-0002-3005-8647], Dobney, Keith [0000-0001-9036-4681], Boivin, Nicole [0000-0002-7783-4199], Searle, Jeremy B. [0000-0001-7710-5204], Krause-Kyora, Ben [0000-0001-9435-2872], Krause, Johannes [0000-0001-9144-3920], Larson, Greger [0000-0002-4092-0392], Orton, David [0000-0003-4069-8004], Department of Cultures, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art [Oxford], School of Archaeology [Oxford], University of Oxford-University of Oxford, University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Museum of Vertebrate Zoology [Berkeley], University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, 07745, Germany, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, University of Queensland [Brisbane], Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Rent a Peasant, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Field Museum of Natural History [Chicago, USA], Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 (HALMA), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), and Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL

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0106 biological sciences, Population genetics, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, 615 History and Archaeology, [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences, PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, Max planck institute, PLAGUE, DISPERSAL, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, humanities, Europe, Multidisciplinary Sciences, ALIGNMENT, Archaeology, 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology, language, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Christian ministry, Training program, YERSINIA-PESTIS, [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory, European black rats, Library science, DNA, Mitochondrial, 010603 evolutionary biology, Institutional support, SEQUENCE, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Middle East, 03 medical and health sciences, Population history, Classical archaeology, Political science, Animals, Humans, 030304 developmental biology, Plague, National history, Science & Technology, COVID-19, Excavation, General Chemistry, FRAMEWORK, language.human_language, Rats, Coronavirus, MICE, INDIAN-OCEAN, PATTERNS, Catalan
Abstract

The distribution of the black rat (Rattus rattus) has been heavily influenced by its association with humans. The dispersal history of this non-native commensal rodent across Europe, however, remains poorly understood, and different introductions may have occurred during the Roman and medieval periods. Here, in order to reconstruct the population history of European black rats, we generated a de novo genome assembly of the black rat, 67 ancient black rat mitogenomes and 36 ancient nuclear genomes from sites spanning the 1st-17th centuries CE in Europe and North Africa. Analyses of mitochondrial DNA confirm that black rats were introduced into the Mediterranean and Europe from Southwest Asia. Genomic analyses of the ancient rats reveal a population turnover in temperate Europe between the 6th and 10th centuries CE, coincident with an archaeologically attested decline in the black rat population. The near disappearance and re-emergence of black rats in Europe may have been the result of the breakdown of the Roman Empire, the First Plague Pandemic, and/or post-Roman climatic cooling., We thank the wet laboratory teams at MPI-SHH, the PalaeoBARN at the University of Oxford and the University of York. We thank David K. James and Lucia Hui of the Alameda County Vector Control Services District for procuring the rat used for the de novo genome. We are grateful to Sarah Nagel at Max Planck Institute for the Evolutionary Anthropology for the single-stranded library preparation, and Dovetail Genomics for the de novo genome assembly service. We thank Maria Spyrou for her suggestions and comments. We acknowledge Ewan Chipping and Helena England (University of York), Carl Phillips, Veronica Lindholm (Ålands Museum), Christine McDonnell and Nienke van Doorn (York Archaeological Trust), Emile Mittendorf (Gemeente Deventer), Inge Riemersma (Archaeological depot, Provincie Zuid-Holland), the Turkish Ministry of Culture & Tourism, Jan Frolík and Iva Herichová (Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Franz Humer and Eduard Pollhammer (Archaeological Park Carnuntum), Dorottya B. Nyékhelyi and László Daróczi-Szabó (Budapest History Museum), Institut National du Patrimoine (Tunisia), University of Barcelona, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Project HUM2006-03432/HIST), Spanish Ministry of Culture (program of archaeological excavations abroad 2009); Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for the Development (2009), Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC), Vujadin Ivanisević, Nemanja Marković and Ivan Bugarski (Archaeological Institute 809 Belgrade), the Field Museum Chicago, the British National History Museum and the American Museum of Natural History for providing materials and support. G.L. and A.J. were supported by the ERC (grant ERC-2013-StG-337574-UNDEAD) and A.J. was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council Doctoral Training Program. D.O. was supported by Wellcome (Small Grant in Humanities and Social Science 209817/Z) and the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust (Small Research Grant SG170938). E.R. was supported by Estonian Research Council grant No PRG29. R.K. was supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences institutional support (RVO:67985912). S.V.-L. was supported by the ERC (grant ERC-StG- 716298 ZooMWest). H.E. was funded by an ERC grant (206148) through the Sealinks Project. A.H.B was funded by the Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2017-315). The de novo genome assembly, population genomics study, and radiocarbon dating were funded by the Max Planck Society.

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2022
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30. Giant limpets in southern Iberian coastal and continental archaeological sites, from Neanderthals to Copper Age

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Junta de Andalucía, Universidad de Málaga, Universidade do Algarve, Universidad de Sevilla, Cortés-Sánchez, Miguel, Lozano Francisco, M. C., Simón-Vallejo, María Dolores, Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J., Odriozola Lloret, Carlos, Macías Tejada, Sara, Morales Muñiz, Arturo, Junta de Andalucía, Universidad de Málaga, Universidade do Algarve, Universidad de Sevilla, Cortés-Sánchez, Miguel, Lozano Francisco, M. C., Simón-Vallejo, María Dolores, Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J., Odriozola Lloret, Carlos, Macías Tejada, Sara, and Morales Muñiz, Arturo

Abstract

The use of coastal resources has been crucial for human diet and social behaviour evolution has been extensively documented since the Middle Palaeolithic, mainly in the western Mediterranean and southern Africa. In southern Iberia, the mollusc assemblages associated with archaeological sites show a continuous record regardless of palaeoclimatic conditions. Among these, limpets are uninterruptedly abundant from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Bronze age with the giant limpets (Cymbula safiana and Patella ferruginea) being present since MIS6. To assess their distribution, predominance, and cultural significance this paper presents the results from an exhaustive archeozoological survey of the southern Iberian region. A total of 1628 specimens have been analysed, including 425 modern (333 C. safiana and 91 P. ferruginea) and 1203 from 60 archaeological deposits deriving from 36 sites, both coastal and continental. Giant limpets’ context also has been described and it has been related with a wide variety of deposits ranging from food refuse accumulations to occupations and burials. Detailed morphological and surface analysis allowed us to determine extraction methods and anthropic transformations. On coastal sites, the giant limpet record starts with Neanderthal populations from the Middle Palaeolithic and continues throughout the Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Copper Age. On inland sites, giant limpets appear first in reduced numbers during the Late Neolithic and have been often worked into elliptical contours with polished, rib-free, external shell surfaces. In this study, we focus on the Copper Age, when giant limpet use becomes common, and records include tholoi, dolmens and other funerary contexts. The data indicate that the use of P. ferruginea is associated with Los Millares and El Argar cultures. Giant limpets use declines during the Bronze Age probably due to the major cultural shift that occurred during the Chalcolithic to Bronze transition. The

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2023

31. Vertebrae reveal industrial-era increases in Atlantic bluefin tuna catch-at-size and juvenile growth

Author

Andrews, Adam J, primary, Di Natale, Antonio, additional, Addis, Piero, additional, Piattoni, Federica, additional, Onar, Vedat, additional, Bernal-Casasola, Darío, additional, Aniceti, Veronica, additional, Carenti, Gabriele, additional, Gómez-Fernández, Verónica, additional, Garibaldi, Fulvio, additional, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, additional, and Tinti, Fausto, additional

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2023
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32. La caverna iluminada: una singular lámpara gravetiense arroja luz sobre el arte parietal de la cueva de La Pileta (Benaoján, Málaga)

Author

Miguel Cortés Sánchez, María Dolores Simón Vallejo, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Mª Carmen Lozano Francisco, José L. Vera Peláez, and Carlos Odriozola Lloret

Subjects
fósil, lámpara, gravetiense, arte paleolítico, península ibérica, Archaeology, CC1-960
Abstract

En este trabajo presentamos el estudio arqueológico, paleontológico, tafonómico, cronológico y geoquímico de una valva de ostra hallada en la cueva de La Pileta. El ejemplar procede de depósitos fosilíferos neógenos distantes más de 10 km del yacimiento. Una vez adaptada, la concha fue empleada como lámpara portátil. La cronología 14C/AMS de la costra carbonatada que sellaba la cubeta nos remite al periodo Gravetiense. Según diversos indicios en la lámpara, durante su vida útil se procesaron o almacenaron pigmentos. Los datos aportados informan sobre la dispersión del simbolismo del Paleolítico Superior Inicial hasta el extremo sudoccidental europeo, así mismo, suma nuevos elementos al debate sobre la existencia de una fase presolutrense en el arte parietal de La Pileta y, por ende, de todo el sur de la Península Ibérica.

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2016
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35. Correction: Investigating the Global Dispersal of Chickens in Prehistory Using Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Signatures.

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Alice A Storey, J Stephen Athens, David Bryant, Mike Carson, Kitty Emery, Susan deFrance, Charles Higham, Leon Huynen, Michiko Intoh, Sharyn Jones, Patrick V Kirch, Thegn Ladefoged, Patrick McCoy, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Daniel Quiroz, Elizabeth Reitz, Judith Robins, Richard Walter, and Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039171.].

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2019
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36. Sturgeon in Iberia from Past to Present

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Ludwig, Arne, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Roselló-Izquierdo, Eufrasia, Williot, Patrick, editor, Rochard, Eric, editor, Desse-Berset, Nathalie, editor, Kirschbaum, Frank, editor, and Gessner, Jörn, editor

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2011
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40. Reply to ‘Dating on its own cannot resolve hominin occupation patterns’ and ‘No reliable evidence for a very early Aurignacian in Southern Iberia’

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Cortés-Sánchez, Miguel, Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J., Simón-Vallejo, María D., Stringer, Chris, Lozano Francisco, María Carmen, García-Alix, Antonio, Vera Peláez, José L., Odriozola, Carlos P., Riquelme-Cantal, José A., Parrilla-Giráldez, Rubén, Maestro González, Adolfo, Ohkouchi, Naohiko, and Morales-Muñiz, Arturo

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2019
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41. Exploitation history of Atlantic bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean—insights from ancient bones

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Adam J Andrews, Antonio Di Natale, Darío Bernal-Casasola, Veronica Aniceti, Vedat Onar, Tarek Oueslati, Tatiana Theodropoulou, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Elisabetta Cilli, Fausto Tinti, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Universidad de Cádiz (UCA), Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata [Roma], Istanbul University, Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 (HALMA), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Andrews, Adam J., Di Natale Antonio, Bernal-Casasola, Darío, Aniceti, Veronica, Onar, Vedat, Oueslati, Tarek, Theodropoulou, Tatiana, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Cilli, Elisabetta, and Tinti, Fausto

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Ecology, [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, biomolecular analyses, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, 01 natural sciences, fish remains, zooarchaeology, [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology, 040102 fisheries, 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, Thunnus thynnus, 14. Life underwater, historical marine ecology, historical baselines, biomolecular analyses, fish remains, historical baselines, historical marine ecology, Thunnus thynnus, zooarchaeology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

Overexploitation has directly, negatively affected marine fish populations in the past half-century, modifying not only their abundance but their behaviour and life-history traits. The recovery and resilience of such populations is dependent upon their exploitation history, which often extends back millennia. Hence, data on when exploitation intensified and how populations were composed in historical periods, have the potential to reveal long-term population dynamics and provide context on the baselines currently used in fisheries management and conservation. Here, we setup a framework for investigations on the exploitation history of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus; BFT) in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean by collating records of their zooarchaeological remains and critically reviewing these alongside the literature. Then, we outline how novel multidisciplinary applications on BFT remains may be used to document long-term population dynamics. Our review of literature provides clear evidence of BFT overexploitation during the mid-20th century ce. Furthermore, a strong case could be made that the intensification of BFT exploitation extends back further to at least the 19th century ce, if not the 13th–16th century ce, in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. However, a host of archaeological evidence would suggest that BFT exploitation may have been intensive since antiquity. Altogether, this indicates that by the currently used management baselines of the 1970s, population abundance and complexity was already likely to have declined from historical levels, and we identify how biomolecular and morphometric analyses of BFT remains have the potential to further investigate this.

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2022
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42. Fish- and Shellmiddens from Galicia (Northwest Spain): Reflections upon a Neglected Coastal Cultural Heritage from the Iberian Peninsula

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Eduardo González-Gómez de Agüero, Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo, Laura Llorente-Rodriguez, Víctor Bejega-García, Natividad Fuertes-Prieto, and Arturo Morales-Muñiz

Subjects
Galicia, bioarchaeology, coastal heritage, conservation, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, AZ20-999
Abstract

The physiographical features of the Galician sea, in particular its temperature, marine currents and plankton richness, have turned its waters into one of the most biologically diversified marine regions of the planet. The 1500 km of shorelines from this Northwest Iberian region are dotted with rías (Galician fjords) where settlements devoted to fishing and trade have existed since prehistoric times. These activities left abundant testimonies in terms of archaeological deposits. In recent decades, urban/industrial development, as well as a number of natural agents (e.g., storms, sea level rise, climate change), is rapidly erasing the evidences of this rich cultural heritage. Loss of fish and shellmiddens in particular will hamper our ability to infer traditional lifeways, doing away with evidence that is crucial to monitoring past climatic changes and to inferring those biological conditions under which marine species and coastal populations thrived in the past. This paper surveys some issues dealing with the coastal bio-archaeological heritage of Galicia, and the risks these deposits face. It concludes with a proposal to save this increasingly threatened marine heritage.

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2019
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43. Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history

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Yu, He [0000-0003-1323-4730], Jamieson, Alexandra [0000-0003-0979-5762], Hulme-Beaman, Ardern [0000-0001-8130-9648], Conroy, Chris J. [0000-0001-7198-9651], Speller, Camilla [0000-0001-7128-9903], Baron, Henriette [0000-0003-4338-3681], Crowther, Alison [0000-0002-2394-1917], Cucchi, Thomas [0000-0001-6021-5001], Fleisher, Jeffrey [0000-0002-6505-9666], Gladilina, Elena [0000-0002-5114-7526], Gol’din, Pavel [0000-0001-6118-1384], Goodman, Steven M. [0000-0001-9318-0570], Kunst, Günther Karl [0000-0002-2175-8641], Linderholm, Anna [0000-0002-1613-9926], Morales-Muñiz, Arturo [0000-0002-9933-6836], Nabais, Mariana [0000-0001-5344-237X], Oueslati, Tarek [0000-0002-2886-085X], Quintana Morales, Eréndira M. [0000-0001-5927-5058], Rannamäe, Eve [0000-0003-1186-5512], Sanmartí Grego, Joan [0000-0002-6635-9249], Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia [0000-0001-9886-0372], Neer, Wim Van [0000-0003-1710-3623], Vigne, Jean-Denis [0000-0002-7367-7552], Wynne-Jones, Stephanie [0000-0002-3005-8647], Dobney, Keith [0000-0001-9036-4681], Boivin, Nicole [0000-0002-7783-4199], Searle, Jeremy B. [0000-0001-7710-5204], Krause-Kyora, Ben [0000-0001-9435-2872], Krause, Johannes [0000-0001-9144-3920], Larson, Greger [0000-0002-4092-0392], Orton, David [0000-0003-4069-8004], Yu, He, Jamieson, Alexandra, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Conroy, Chris J., Knight, Becky, Speller, Camilla, Al-Jarah, Hiba, Eager, Heidi, Trinks, Alexandra, Adikari, Gamini, Baron, Henriette, Böhlendorf-Arslan, Beate, Bohingamuwa, Wijerathne, Crowther, Alison, Cucchi, Thomas, Esser, Kinie, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Gidney, Louisa, Gladilina, Elena, Gol’din, Pavel, Goodman, Steven M., Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila, Helm, Richard, Hillman, Chris, Kallala, Nabil, Kivikero, Hanna, Kovács, Zsófia E., Kunst, Günther Karl, Kyselý, René, Linderholm, Anna, Maraoui-Telmini, Bouthéina, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Nabais, Mariana, O’Connor, Terry, Oueslati, Tarek, Quintana Morales, Eréndira M., Pasda, Kerstin, Jude Perera, Perera, Nimal, Radbauer, Silvia, Ramon, Joan, Rannamäe, Eve, Sanmartí Grego, Joan, Treasure, Edward, Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia, Jagt, Inge van der, Neer, Wim Van, Vigne, Jean-Denis, Walker, Thomas, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, Zeiler, Jørn, Dobney, Keith, Boivin, Nicole, Searle, Jeremy B., Krause-Kyora, Ben, Krause, Johannes, Larson, Greger, Orton, David, Yu, He [0000-0003-1323-4730], Jamieson, Alexandra [0000-0003-0979-5762], Hulme-Beaman, Ardern [0000-0001-8130-9648], Conroy, Chris J. [0000-0001-7198-9651], Speller, Camilla [0000-0001-7128-9903], Baron, Henriette [0000-0003-4338-3681], Crowther, Alison [0000-0002-2394-1917], Cucchi, Thomas [0000-0001-6021-5001], Fleisher, Jeffrey [0000-0002-6505-9666], Gladilina, Elena [0000-0002-5114-7526], Gol’din, Pavel [0000-0001-6118-1384], Goodman, Steven M. [0000-0001-9318-0570], Kunst, Günther Karl [0000-0002-2175-8641], Linderholm, Anna [0000-0002-1613-9926], Morales-Muñiz, Arturo [0000-0002-9933-6836], Nabais, Mariana [0000-0001-5344-237X], Oueslati, Tarek [0000-0002-2886-085X], Quintana Morales, Eréndira M. [0000-0001-5927-5058], Rannamäe, Eve [0000-0003-1186-5512], Sanmartí Grego, Joan [0000-0002-6635-9249], Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia [0000-0001-9886-0372], Neer, Wim Van [0000-0003-1710-3623], Vigne, Jean-Denis [0000-0002-7367-7552], Wynne-Jones, Stephanie [0000-0002-3005-8647], Dobney, Keith [0000-0001-9036-4681], Boivin, Nicole [0000-0002-7783-4199], Searle, Jeremy B. [0000-0001-7710-5204], Krause-Kyora, Ben [0000-0001-9435-2872], Krause, Johannes [0000-0001-9144-3920], Larson, Greger [0000-0002-4092-0392], Orton, David [0000-0003-4069-8004], Yu, He, Jamieson, Alexandra, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Conroy, Chris J., Knight, Becky, Speller, Camilla, Al-Jarah, Hiba, Eager, Heidi, Trinks, Alexandra, Adikari, Gamini, Baron, Henriette, Böhlendorf-Arslan, Beate, Bohingamuwa, Wijerathne, Crowther, Alison, Cucchi, Thomas, Esser, Kinie, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Gidney, Louisa, Gladilina, Elena, Gol’din, Pavel, Goodman, Steven M., Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila, Helm, Richard, Hillman, Chris, Kallala, Nabil, Kivikero, Hanna, Kovács, Zsófia E., Kunst, Günther Karl, Kyselý, René, Linderholm, Anna, Maraoui-Telmini, Bouthéina, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Nabais, Mariana, O’Connor, Terry, Oueslati, Tarek, Quintana Morales, Eréndira M., Pasda, Kerstin, Jude Perera, Perera, Nimal, Radbauer, Silvia, Ramon, Joan, Rannamäe, Eve, Sanmartí Grego, Joan, Treasure, Edward, Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia, Jagt, Inge van der, Neer, Wim Van, Vigne, Jean-Denis, Walker, Thomas, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, Zeiler, Jørn, Dobney, Keith, Boivin, Nicole, Searle, Jeremy B., Krause-Kyora, Ben, Krause, Johannes, Larson, Greger, and Orton, David

Abstract

The distribution of the black rat (Rattus rattus) has been heavily influenced by its association with humans. The dispersal history of this non-native commensal rodent across Europe, however, remains poorly understood, and different introductions may have occurred during the Roman and medieval periods. Here, in order to reconstruct the population history of European black rats, we generated a de novo genome assembly of the black rat, 67 ancient black rat mitogenomes and 36 ancient nuclear genomes from sites spanning the 1st-17th centuries CE in Europe and North Africa. Analyses of mitochondrial DNA confirm that black rats were introduced into the Mediterranean and Europe from Southwest Asia. Genomic analyses of the ancient rats reveal a population turnover in temperate Europe between the 6th and 10th centuries CE, coincident with an archaeologically attested decline in the black rat population. The near disappearance and re-emergence of black rats in Europe may have been the result of the breakdown of the Roman Empire, the First Plague Pandemic, and/or post-Roman climatic cooling.

Published
2021

44. Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe

Author

Martínez-García, Lourdes, primary, Ferrari, Giada, additional, Cuevas, Angélica, additional, Atmore, Lane M., additional, López-Arias, Begoña, additional, Culling, Mark, additional, Llorente-Rodríguez, Laura, additional, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, additional, Roselló-Izquierdo, Eufrasia, additional, Quirós, Juan Antonio, additional, Marlasca-Martín, Ricard, additional, Hänfling, Bernd, additional, Hutchinson, William F., additional, Jakobsen, Kjetill S., additional, Jentoft, Sissel, additional, Orton, David, additional, Star, Bastiaan, additional, and Barrett, James H., additional

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2022
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45. Taming the late Quaternary phylogeography of the Eurasiatic wild ass through ancient and modern DNA.

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E Andrew Bennett, Sophie Champlot, Joris Peters, Benjamin S Arbuckle, Silvia Guimaraes, Mélanie Pruvost, Shirli Bar-David, Simon J M Davis, Mathieu Gautier, Petra Kaczensky, Ralph Kuehn, Marjan Mashkour, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Erich Pucher, Jean-François Tournepiche, Hans-Peter Uerpmann, Adrian Bălăşescu, Mietje Germonpré, Can Y Gündem, Mahmoud-Reza Hemami, Pierre-Elie Moullé, Aliye Ötzan, Margarete Uerpmann, Chris Walzer, Thierry Grange, and Eva-Maria Geigl

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

Taxonomic over-splitting of extinct or endangered taxa, due to an incomplete knowledge of both skeletal morphological variability and the geographical ranges of past populations, continues to confuse the link between isolated extant populations and their ancestors. This is particularly problematic with the genus Equus. To more reliably determine the evolution and phylogeographic history of the endangered Asiatic wild ass, we studied the genetic diversity and inter-relationships of both extinct and extant populations over the last 100,000 years, including samples throughout its previous range from Western Europe to Southwest and East Asia. Using 229 bp of the mitochondrial hypervariable region, an approach which allowed the inclusion of information from extremely poorly preserved ancient samples, we classify all non-African wild asses into eleven clades that show a clear phylogeographic structure revealing their phylogenetic history. This study places the extinct European wild ass, E. hydruntinus, the phylogeny of which has been debated since the end of the 19th century, into its phylogenetic context within the Asiatic wild asses and reveals recent mitochondrial introgression between populations currently regarded as separate species. The phylogeographic organization of clades resulting from these efforts can be used not only to improve future taxonomic determination of a poorly characterized group of equids, but also to identify historic ranges, interbreeding events between various populations, and the impact of ancient climatic changes. In addition, appropriately placing extant relict populations into a broader phylogeographic and genetic context can better inform ongoing conservation strategies for this highly-endangered species.

Published
2017
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46. The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in southern Iberia

Author

Cortés Sánchez, Miguel, Jiménez Espejo, Francisco J., Simón Vallejo, María D., Gibaja Bao, Juan F., Carvalho, António Faustino, Martinez-Ruiz, Francisca, Gamiz, Marta Rodrigo, Flores, José-Abel, Paytan, Adina, López Sáez, José A., Peña-Chocarro, Leonor, Carrión, José S., Morales Muñiz, Arturo, Roselló Izquierdo, Eufrasia, Riquelme Cantal, José A., Dean, Rebecca M., Salgueiro, Emília, Martínez Sánchez, Rafael M., De la Rubia de Gracia, Juan J., Lozano Francisco, María C., Vera Peláez, José L., Rodríguez, Laura Llorente, and Bicho, Nuno F.

Published
2012
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49. Phoretic oribatids (Acari, Oribatida) as bird bioindicators? Insights from the site of Tabacalera (Gijón, N. Spain, 6th-7th centuries AD)

Author

Laura Llorente-Rodríguez, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, and Andrea González-Ibáñez

Subjects
010506 paleontology, biology, Ecology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, biology.organism_classification, 01 natural sciences, Geography, Feather, visual_art, Phoresis, visual_art.visual_art_medium, Assemblage (archaeology), Acari, Arthropod, Oribatida, Bioindicator, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, Global biodiversity
Abstract

Bird remains are rare on archaeological sites yet often crucial to address a multitude of questions, both cultural and biological. In this paper we argue that oribatid mites living on bird feathers, scales and nests may prove useful to infer not only bird presence but occasionally their breeding at a given site in the absence of their remains. Although oribatids are for all purposes stationary, a good number of species practice non-parasitic phoresis on birds that allows the mites to disperse over large distances. The specificity of the interrelationship, thus the quality of the bioindicator signal, is probably time-dependent, so that the longer the more specific the link between the vertebrate and the arthropod becomes. Oribatids are useful bioindicators because of the intensive sclerotization of their exoskeleton that insures their preservation in archaeological deposits. In this paper inferences about the bird assemblage retrieved at the Early Medieval site of Tabacalera (Gijon, Spain) are explored from the standpoint of the phoretic oribatids recovered in the deposits.

Published
2020
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50. Elucidating historical fisheries’ networks in the Iberian Peninsula using stable isotopes

Author

Laura Llorente‐Rodríguez, Oliver E. Craig, André Carlo Colonese, Matthew von Tersch, Eufrasia Roselló‐Izquierdo, Eduardo González Gómez de Agüero, Carlos Fernández‐Rodríguez, Juan Antonio Quirós‐Castillo, Begoña López‐Arias, Ricard Marlasca‐Martín, James Nottingham, and Arturo Morales Muñiz

Subjects
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Published
2022

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