Archaeology 101: Zooarchaeology pt. 2. Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS)

Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) is a relatively new method of identifying animal and human remains when those remains have been damaged or modified beyond visual recognition. This is a brief explanation of how it works.

References:

Krista McGrath, Keri Rowsell, Christian Gates St-Pierre, Andrew Tedder,
George Foody, Carolynne Roberts, Camilla Speller, & Matthew Collins
2019 Identifying Archaeological Bone via Non-Destructive ZooMS and the
Materiality of Symbolic Expression: Examples from Iroquoian Bone
Points.

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Courtney Culley, Anneke Janzen, Samantha Brown, Mary E. Prendergast,
Ceri Shipton, Emmanuel Ndiema, Michael D. Petraglia, Nicole Boivin ,
Alison Crowther

2021 Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS
identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

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