Paleoproteomic profiling of organic residues on prehistoric pottery from Malta.

ABSTRACT: Mass spectrometry-based approaches have been successfully applied for identifying ancient proteins in bones and other tissues. On the contrary, there are relatively few examples of the successful recovery and identification of archeological protein residues from ceramic artifacts; this is because ceramics contain much lower levels of proteins which are extensively degraded by diagenetic effects. In this paper, we report the results of the characterization of proteins extracted from pottery of the Maltese site of Baħrija, the guide-site for the Baħrija period (half of 9th-second half of eighth century BCE), recently identified as the final part of the Borġ in-Nadur culture. Proteomic data here reported confirm that one of the major issue of these kind of studies is represented by contaminat

SUBMITTER: Tanasi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7910365 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature