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The Baltic grey seal :
The Baltic grey seal : A 9000-year history of presence and absence
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- Ahlgren, Hans, 1984- (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet
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- Bro-Jørgensen, Maiken Hemme, 1990- (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet,University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Glykou, Aikaterini, 1975- (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet
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Schmölcke, Ulrich (författare)
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- Angerbjorn, Anders, 1950- (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Zoologiska institutionen
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Olsen, Morten Tange (författare)
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- Lidén, Kerstin, 1960- (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet
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- 2022-03-03
- 2022
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: The Holocene. - : SAGE Publications. - 0959-6836 .- 1477-0911. ; 32:6, s. 569-577
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Abstract
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- The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) has been part of the Baltic Sea fauna for more than 9000 years and has ever since been subjected to extensive human hunting, particularly during the early phases of its presence in the Baltic Sea, but also in the early 20th century. In order to study their temporal genetic structure and to investigate whether there has been a genetically continuous grey seal population in the Baltic, we generated mitochondrial control region data from skeletal remains from ancient grey seals from the archaeological sites Stora Förvar (Sweden) and Neustadt (Germany) and compared these with modern grey seal data. We found that the majority of the Mesolithic grey seals represent haplotypes that is not found in contemporary grey seals, indicating that the Baltic Sea population went extinct, likely due to human overexploitation and environmental change. We hypothesize that grey seals recolonised the Baltic Sea from the North Sea. during the Bronze Age or Iron Age, and that the contemporary Baltic grey seal population is direct descendants of this recolonisation. Our study highlights the power of biomolecular archaeology to understand the factors that shape contemporary marine diversity.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Arkeologi (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- Archaeology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Genetik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Genetics (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- aDNA
- Baltic Sea
- extirpation
- Grey Seal
- hunting
- mitogenomes
- Archaeological Science
- laborativ arkeologi
- Genetics
- genetik
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- art (ämneskategori)
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