Description

Summary: 1 bag of animal bone from Blackberry Field, Potterne, a late bronze/ early iron age settlement excavated by Lawson et al 1983-85.

Research results

Research undertaken by Dr Victoria E Mullin, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow (IRC). Population Genetics. Smurfit Institute of Genetics. Trinity College Dublin. Animal aDNA studies at TCD. Ancient sheep mitochondrial DNA. This is a paper which is really focused on Asliki Hoyuk and is mostly driven by Joris Peters (Munich) and his group. This paper includes an ancient sheep sample from Potterne which came to the dataset from Wiltshire Museum. 'Ancient sheep mitochondrial diversity and the domestication legacy of early Neolithic Aşıklı Höyük, central Anatolia' / 'Ancient sheep mitogenomes from Neolithic Anatolia and Europe reveal dramatic demographic fluctuations over the last 12,000 years'. 2023 / The mitogenomic makeup of Neolithic Anatolian and European sheep (Ovis aries) PNAS 2023. 'Ancient mitogenomes from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Central Anatolia and the effects of a Late Neolithic bottleneck in sheep (Ovis aries)'. Science Advances. Research Article. Sandoval-Castellanos et al. 2024.