Proteomic and metagenomic insights into prehistoric Spanish Levantine Rock Art.

ABSTRACT: The Iberian Mediterranean Basin is home to one of the largest groups of prehistoric rock art sites in Europe. Despite the cultural relevance of prehistoric Spanish Levantine rock art, pigment composition remains partially unknown, and the nature of the binders used for painting has yet to be disclosed. In this work, we present the first omic analysis applied to one of the flagship Levantine rock art sites: the Valltorta ravine (Castellón, Spain). We used high-throughput sequencing to provide the first description of the bacterial communities colonizing the rock art patina, which proved to be dominated by Firmicutes species and might have a protective effect on the paintings. Proteomic analysis was also performed on rock art microsamples in order to determine the organic binders present in

SUBMITTER: Roldan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6030215 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature