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

Caroline Solazzo; Susan Heald; Mary W. Ballard; David A. Ashford; Paula T. DePriest; Robert J. Koestler; Matthew J. Collins

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00062141

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

Caroline Solazzo^*, Susan Heald, Mary W. Ballard, David A. Ashford, Paula T. DePriest, Robert J. Koestler, Matthew J. Collins

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Abstract

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 The proteomic analysis shows that they did, interweaving it with goat, and that the woolly dog was increasingly superseded by sheep in the later nineteenth century.

Original language	English
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	85
Issue number	330
Pages (from-to)	1418-1432
Number of pages	15
ISSN	0003-598X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00062141
Publication status	Published - Dec 2011

Keywords

Coast Salish
Goat
Nineteenth century
North America
Sheep
Textiles
Woolly Dog

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