10.5061/DRYAD.M80D7
Prendergast, Mary E.
Harvard University
Buckley, Michael
University of Manchester
Crowther, Alison
University of Queensland
Eager, Heidi
Cornell University
University of Oxford
Frantz, Laurent
University of Oxford
Queen Mary University of London
Lebrasseur, Ophélie
University of Oxford
Hutterer, Rainer
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
Hulme-Beaman, Ardern
University of Aberdeen
Van Neer, Wim
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
KU Leuven
Douka, Katerina
University of Oxford
Veall, Margaret-Ashley
University of Oxford
Quintana Morales, Eréndira M.
Rice University
Schuenemann, Verena J.
University of Tübingen
Reiter, Ella
University of Tübingen
Allen, Richard
University of Oxford
Dimopoulos, Evangelos A.
University of Oxford
Helm, Richard M.
Canterbury Archaeological Trust
Shipton, Ceri
British Institute in Eastern Africa
Mwebi, Ogeto
National Museum
Denys, Christiane
National Museum of Natural History
Horton, Mark C.
University of Bristol
Wynne-Jones, Stephanie
University of York
Fleisher, Jeffrey
Rice University
Radimilahy, Chantal
University of Antananarivo
Wright, Henry
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Santa Fe Institute
Searle, Jeremy B.
Cornell University
Krause, Johannes
University of Tübingen
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Larson, Greger
University of Oxford
Boivin, Nicole L.
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Quintana Morales, Eriéndira M.
Rice University
Horton, Mark
University of Bristol
Data from: Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa
from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets
Dryad
dataset
2018
Acryllium
Syrmaticus
Bambusicola
Gallus
Polyplectron
Holocene
Numida
Arborophila
2018-07-25T00:00:00Z
2018-07-25T00:00:00Z
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182565
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Human-mediated biological exchange has had global social and ecological
impacts. In sub-Saharan Africa, several domestic and commensal animals
were introduced from Asia in the pre-modern period; however, the timing
and nature of these introductions remain contentious. One model supports
introduction to the eastern African coast after the mid-first millennium
CE, while another posits introduction dating back to 3000 BCE. These
distinct scenarios have implications for understanding the emergence of
long-distance maritime connectivity, and the ecological and economic
impacts of introduced species. Resolution of this longstanding debate
requires new efforts, given the lack of well-dated fauna from
high-precision excavations, and ambiguous osteomorphological
identifications. We analysed faunal remains from 22 eastern African sites
spanning a wide geographic and chronological range, and applied
biomolecular techniques to confirm identifications of two Asian taxa:
domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) and black rat (Rattus rattus). Our
approach included ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis aided by BLAST-based
bioinformatics, Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) collagen
fingerprinting, and direct AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry) radiocarbon
dating. Our results support a late, mid-first millennium CE introduction
of these species. We discuss the implications of our findings for models
of biological exchange, and emphasize the applicability of our approach to
tropical areas with poor bone preservation.
Shotgun sequences for bird remains from Swahili coast archaeological
sitesShotgun sequences for bird remains from Swahili coast archaeological
sites. Files that are labeled "JK" correspond to specific
archaeological bone samples, each 4-digit number representing a single
library: JK2992, JK3005, JK2999, JK2989, JK3002, JK2995, JK2993, JK3004,
JK3003, JK2994, JK2988, JK3001, JK2990, JK3008, JK2998, JK3007, JK1996,
JK3006, JK3000, JK2991, JK2997 . The other files represent extraction
blanks (EBB1, EBB2) and library blanks (LBB2, LBB1). Please see
supplementary data in the Prendergast et al. paper to link JK numbers to
archaeological contexts.2017-06-19_Samples_Oxford.tar
Swahili coast
East Africa