Gendered burial practices that differentiate between men and women by the way the body was placed were used over large parts of Central Europe in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (c. 2900−1600 BC). The differentiation of bodies placed on the left/right side in opposite orientation was extende...
The identification of sex-specific peptides in human tooth enamel by nanoflow liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (nanoLC-MS/MS) represents a quantum leap for the study of childhood and social relations more generally. Determining sex-related differences in prehistoric child rearing and m...
We use palaeoproteomic analysis to obtain the taxonomic identification of an exceptional bone tool from a Bronze Age site near Heiloo, the Netherlands. ZooMS, SPIN and a conventional MaxQuant database search were employed to narrow down the species the tool belonged to. Here, only the LC-MS/MS raw d...