ChemArch: The organic chemistry and molecular biology of archaeological artefacts

Project Information

ChemArch

Grant agreement ID: 956351

DOI

10.3030/956351

Project closed

EC signature date 8 September 2020

Start date 1 March 2021

End date 28 February 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 4 236 454,44

EU contribution

€ 4 236 454,44

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF YORK
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Website launched
Wikipedia entries

Other (4)

Each ESR defence of thesis

Defence of PhD thesis.

York Archaeological Trust VODcasts
Submission of peer reviewed publications

Submission of minimum 15 peer-reviewed publications drawing on the research from each ESR project.

Sampling Guidelines published

Documents, reports (2)

Peer-reviewed position paper

Peer reviewed position paper describing the minimum requirements for conducting and reporting organic residue analysis of prehistoric artefacts, discussion limitations of previous approaches in respect to current state-of-the-art.

Science festival outreach report

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

Database of molecular preservation parameters

As a key whole project interim scientific deliverable, the ESRs will create a database of molecular preservation parameters (e.g. lipid yields, compound classes present) by artefact type, burial context and geolocation. This is will be key building block enabling researchers, both within the project and external to it, to identify suitable archaeolgical contexts for molecular analysis. The database will be created in Month 18 and deposited with the Archaeology Data Service on completion of the project Month 48.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (22)

What points can tell. Artefact biographies of barbed bone and antler points from Mesolithic Doggerland

Author(s): Merel Spithoven-Stikkelorum, Joannes Dekker, Alessandro Aleo
Published in: ARTEFACT BIOGRAPHIES FROM MESOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC EUROPE AND BEYOND, 2024, ISSN 2665-9573
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Increasing sustainability in palaeoproteomics by optimizing digestion times for large-scale archaeological bone analyses

Author(s): Louise Le Meillour, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir, Jakob Hansen, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Gaudry Troché, Huan Xia, Jorsua Herrera Bethencourt, Karen Ruebens, Geoff M. Smith, Zandra Fagernäs, Frido Welker
Published in: iScience, Issue 27, 2024, Page(s) 109432, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109432

Feasting on fish. Specialized function of pre-colonial pottery of the Cerritos mound builders of southern Brazil

Author(s): Marjolein Admiraal, André C. Colonese, Rafael Guedes Milheira, Alice Di Muro, Helen Marie Talbot, Alexandre Lucquin, Oliver E. Craig
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0311192, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311192

A comparative study of commercially available, minimally invasive, sampling methods on Early Neolithic humeri analysed via palaeoproteomics

Author(s): Jakob Hansen, Joannes Dekker, Gaudry Troché, Zandra Fagernäs, Jesper V. Olsen, Maria Saña Seguí, Frido Welker
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 167, 2024, Page(s) 106002, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106002

Chemical analyses reveal dual functionality of Early Mesolithic birch tar at Krzyż Wielkopolski (Poland)

Author(s): Tabea J. Koch, Jacek Kabaciński, Auréade Henry, Benjamin Marquebielle, Aimée Little, Rebecca Stacey, Martine Regert,
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2024, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104591

Differences in birch tar composition are explained by adhesive function in the central European Iron Age

Author(s): Tabea J. Koch ,Marion Saurel,Hervé Bocquillon,Didier F. Pisani,Lola Bonnabel,Aimée Little,Rebecca Stacey,Maxime Rageot,Martine Regert
Published in: PLOS ONE, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301103

Facilitating accessible, rapid, and appropriate processing of ancient metagenomic data with AMDirT

Author(s): Maxime Borry, Adrian Forsythe, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Alexander Hübner, Anan Ibrahim, Andrea Quagliariello, Anna E. White, Arthur Kocher, Åshild J. Vågene‬, Bjørn Peare Bartholdy, Diāna Spurīte, Gabriel Yaxal Ponce-Soto, Gunnar Neumann, I-Ting Huang, Ian Light, Irina M. Velsko, Iseult Jackson, Jasmin Frangenberg, Javier G. Serrano, Julien Fumey, Kadir T. Özdoğan, Kelly E. Blevins, Kevi
Published in: F1000Research, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 926, ISSN 2046-1402
Publisher: F1000 Research Ltd.
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.134798.2

Palaeoproteomic identification of a whale bone tool from Bronze Age Heiloo, the Netherlands

Author(s): Joannes A. A. Dekker, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Annemieke Verbaas, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Samantha Presslee, Morgan L. McCarthy, Morten Tange Olsen, Jesper V. Olsen, Youri van den Hurk, Joris Brattinga, Frido Welker
Published in: Peer Community Journal, Issue 4, 2024, ISSN 2804-3871
Publisher: Peer Community Journal
DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.451

Assessing the Role of Wooden Vessels, Basketry, and Pottery at the Early Neolithic Site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)

Author(s): Ingrid Bertin, Susagna Romero-Brugués, Evdoxia Tzerpou, Núria Morera, Isabelle Théry-Parisot, Raquel Piqué
Published in: Open Archaeology, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2300-6560
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Access
DOI: 10.1515/opar-2022-0360

Alkylresorcinol detection and identification in archaeological pottery using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole/Orbitrap mass spectrometry

Author(s): Jonica Ella Doliente, Swen Langer, Marc R. Dickinson, Miriam Cubas, André C. Colonese, Kirsty Penkman, Oliver E. Craig
Published in: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2024, ISSN 0951-4198
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9771

First evidence of early neolithic archery from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol, Granada) revealed through combined chemical and morphological analysis

Author(s): Ingrid Bertin, María Martín-Seijo, Francisco Martínez-Sevilla, Krista McGrath, Jonathan Santana, Maria Herrero-Otal, Rafael M. Martínez Sánchez, Antoni Palomo, Martine Regert, Isabelle Théry, Raquel Piqué
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-77224-w

Combining traceological analysis and ZooMS on Early Neolithic bone artefacts from the cave of Coro Trasito, NE Iberian Peninsula: Cervidae used equally to Caprinae

Author(s): Jakob Hansen, Alejandro Sierra, Sergi Mata, Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè, Javier Rey Lanaspa, Frido Welker, Maria Saña Seguí, Ignacio Clemente Conte
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0306448, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0306448

Potential and limitations of adhesive identification on museum curated metal objects

Author(s): Tabea J. Koch, Sophia Adams, Melanie Giles, Aimée Little, Francesco Palmas, Frederik W. Rademakers, Martine Regert, Yohann Thomas, Rebecca Stacey
Published in: Journal of Cultural Heritage, Issue 71, 2025, Page(s) 358-369, ISSN 1296-2074
Publisher: Elsevier Masson
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2024.12.013

Early Holocene preservation differences between cortical and trabecular bone proteomes

Author(s): Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir, Jakob Hansen, Zandra Fagernäs, Gaudry Troché, Jesper V. Olsen, Maria Saña Seguí, Frido Welker
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 57, 2024, Page(s) 104643, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104643

Benchmarking the identification of a single degraded protein to explore optimal search strategies for ancient proteins

Author(s): Ismael Rodriguez Palomo, Bharath Nair, Yun Chiang, Joannes Dekker, Benjamin Dartigues, Meaghan Mackie, Miranda Evans, Ruairidh Macleod, Jesper V. Olsen, Matthew J. Collins
Published in: Peer Community Journal, Issue 4, 2024, ISSN 2804-3871
Publisher: Open Research Europe
DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.491

The earliest basketry in southern Europe: Hunter-gatherer and farmer plant-based technology in Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol)

Author(s): FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ-SEVILLA, MARIA HERRERO-OTAL, MARÍA MARTÍN-SEIJO, JONATHAN SANTANA, JOSÉ A. LOZANO RODRÍGUEZ, RUTH MAICAS RAMOS, MIRIAM CUBAS, ANNA HOMS, RAFAEL M. MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, INGRID BERTIN, ROSA BARROSO BERMEJO, PRIMITIVA BUENO RAMÍREZ, RODRIGO DE BALBÍN BEHRMANN , ANTONI PALOMO PÉREZ, ANTONIO M. ÁLVAREZ-VALERO, LEONOR PEÑA-CHOCARRO, MERCEDES MURILLO-BARROSO, EVA FERNÁNDEZ-DO
Published in: Science Advances, 2023, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi3055

Hafting of a Neolithic leister: Identification of adhesives from Lolland (Denmark)

Author(s): Tabea Koch, Daniel Groß, Bjørnar Tved Måge, Aimée Little
Published in: Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2024, ISSN 2166-2290
Publisher: Royal Danish Library

Spectra without stories: reporting 94% dark and unidentified ancient proteomes

Author(s): Yun Chiang, Frido Welker, Matthew James Collins
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 71, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: Open Resource Europe
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.17225.1

The impact of farming on prehistoric culinary practices throughout Northern Europe

Author(s): Alexandre Lucquina, Harry K. Robsona, Ester Orasb, Jasmine Lundya, Giulia Morettid, Lara González Carreteroa, Joannes Dekker, Özge Demircia, Ekaterina Dolbunovad, T. Rowan McLaughlind, Henny Piezonkah, Helen M. Talbota, Kamil Adamczaki, Agnieszka Czekaj- Zastawnyj, Daniel Großk, Witold Gumińskil, Sönke Hartzm, Jacek Kabacińskij, Satu Koiviston, Trond Eilev Lingeo, Ann- Katrin Meyerp, Teem
Published in: PNAS, 2023, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

Author(s): Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Marcel Weiss, Helen Fewlass, Elena Irene Zavala, Hélène Rougier, Arev Pelin Sümer, Mateja Hajdinjak, Geoff M. Smith, Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Sarah Pederzani, Elena Essel, Florian S. Harking, Huan Xia, Jakob Hansen, André Kirchner, Tobias Lauer, Mareike Stahlschmidt, Michael Hein, Sahra Talamo, Lukas Wacker, Harald Meller, Holger Dietl, Jörg Orschiedt, J
Published in: Nature, Issue 626, 2024, Page(s) 341-346, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7

Sorting the Trees: The Role of Laurus nobilis in the Woodland Management Practices at La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)

Author(s): Oriol López-Bultó, Patrick Gassmann, Ingrid Bertin, and Raquel Piqué
Published in: International Journal of Wood Culture, 2023, ISSN 2772-3186
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/27723194-bja10023

Diamonds in the rough - reconsidering the scientific and heritage value of heat-altered stones in prehistoric archaeology through a systematic literature review

Author(s): Margherita Cantelli, Xavier Terradas, Didier Binder, Martine Regert, André Carlo Colonese
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 254, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: Open Research Europe
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.18837.1

Conference proceedings (1)

L’absence de brai de bouleau à l’âge du Bronze. Biais de recherche ou réalité archéologique ?

Author(s): Tabea J. Koch, Mailys Turini, Arnaud Mazuy, Patrick Ferreira, Hélène Paolinii-Saez, Kewin Peche-Quilichini, Martine Regert
Published in: Bulletin d'actualité d'APRAB, 2024, ISSN 2257-1248
Publisher: Association pour la Promotion des recherches sur l'Âge du Bronze

Book chapters (1)

Organic Residue Analysis of Archaeological Pottery

Author(s): Cubas, M., Becher, J., Chiang, Y., Antonius Dekker, J. A., Di Muro, A., Doliente, J. E., Craig, O. E.
Published in: 'Reference Module of Social Science'; brief introduction to organic residue analysis for non-specialists, 2022, ISBN 9780443157851
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-90799-6.00047-1