Clothomics: a practical guide to understand the opportunities and challenges of omics-based methods in archaeological cloth research.

ABSTRACT: Since the first studies in the early 2000s, an increasing number of articles have used biomolecular tools for studying archaeological and historical cloth materials, produced by animal and plant fibres, leather and furs. Genomic and proteomic studies have particularly contributed to prior visual and microscopic methods to broaden complex themes such as society, identity, technology, economy and trade. We have termed this new interdisciplinary field "clothomics", as it applies diverse omics methodologies, such as genomics and proteomics, to expand the horizons of cloth research. This paper aims at providing users with a set of practical step-by-step guides for the most widely applied omics analyses of cloth, proteomics and genomics, in animal-based materials. The paper reviews curren

SUBMITTER: Vinas-Caron LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11913735 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature