{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Brandt LO"],"funding":["Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research"],"pagination":["e106875"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4178020"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["9(9)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Denmark has an extraordinarily large and well-preserved collection of archaeological skin garments found in peat bogs, dated to approximately 920 BC - AD 775. These objects provide not only the possibility to study prehistoric skin costume and technologies, but also to investigate the animal species used for the production of skin garments. Until recently, species identification of archaeological skin was primarily performed by light and scanning electron microscopy or the analysis of ancient DNA. However, the efficacy of these methods can be limited due to the harsh, mostly acidic environment of peat bogs leading to morphological and molecular degradation within the samples. We compared species assignment results of twelve archaeological skin samples from Danish bogs using Mass Spectromet"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pubmed_title":["Species identification of archaeological skin objects from Danish bogs: comparison between mass spectrometry-based peptide sequencing and microscopy-based methods."],"pmcid":["PMC4178020"],"funding_grant_id":["PI Jesper Velgaard Olsen"],"pubmed_authors":["Olsen JV","Brandt LO","Cappellini E","Sarret M","Kelstrup CD","Mannering U","Schmidt AL"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Species identification of archaeological skin objects from Danish bogs: comparison between mass spectrometry-based peptide sequencing and microscopy-based methods.","description":"Denmark has an extraordinarily large and well-preserved collection of archaeological skin garments found in peat bogs, dated to approximately 920 BC - AD 775. These objects provide not only the possibility to study prehistoric skin costume and technologies, but also to investigate the animal species used for the production of skin garments. Until recently, species identification of archaeological skin was primarily performed by light and scanning electron microscopy or the analysis of ancient DNA. However, the efficacy of these methods can be limited due to the harsh, mostly acidic environment of peat bogs leading to morphological and molecular degradation within the samples. We compared species assignment results of twelve archaeological skin samples from Danish bogs using Mass Spectromet","dates":{"release":"2014-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2014","modification":"2026-05-02T00:12:29.184Z","creation":"2019-03-26T23:27:20Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4178020","cross_references":{"pubmed":["25260035"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0106875"]}}