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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Proteomics and Coast Salish blankets

T2 - A tale of shaggy dogs?

AU - Solazzo, Caroline

AU - Heald, Susan

AU - Ballard, Mary W.

AU - Ashford, David A.

AU - DePriest, Paula T.

AU - Koestler, Robert J.

AU - Collins, Matthew J.

PY - 2011/12

Y1 - 2011/12

N2 - 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 The proteomic analysis shows that they did, interweaving it with goat, and that the woolly dog was increasingly superseded by sheep in the later nineteenth century.

AB - 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 The proteomic analysis shows that they did, interweaving it with goat, and that the woolly dog was increasingly superseded by sheep in the later nineteenth century.

KW - Coast Salish

KW - Goat

KW - Nineteenth century

KW - North America

KW - Sheep

KW - Textiles

KW - Woolly Dog

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=82155167061&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/s0003598x00062141

DO - 10.1017/s0003598x00062141

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:82155167061

SN - 0003-598X

VL - 85

SP - 1418

EP - 1432

JO - Antiquity

JF - Antiquity

IS - 330

ER -