The globalization of naval provisioning: ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses of stored cod from the wreck of the Mary Rose, AD 1545

Hutchinson, William F.; Culling, Mark; Orton, David C.; Hänfling, Bernd; Handley, Lori Lawson; Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila; O'Connell, Tamsin C.; Richards, Michael P.; Barrett, James H.

doi:10.1098/rsos.150199

The globalization of naval provisioning: ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses of stored cod from the wreck of the Mary Rose, AD 1545

Hutchinson, William F.; Culling, Mark; Orton, David C.; Hänfling, Bernd; Handley, Lori Lawson; Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila; O'Connell, Tamsin C.; Richards, Michael P.; Barrett, James H.

Authors

William F. Hutchinson

Mark Culling

David C. Orton

Bernd Hänfling

Lori Lawson Handley

Sheila Hamilton-Dyer

Tamsin C. O'Connell

Michael P. Richards

James H. Barrett

Abstract

© 2015 The Authors. A comparison of ancient DNA (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) and carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence suggests that stored cod provisions recovered from the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose, which sank in the Solent, southern England, in 1545, had been caught in northern and transatlantic waters such as the northern North Sea and the fishing grounds of Iceland and Newfoundland. This discovery, underpinned by control data from archaeological samples of cod bones from potential source regions, illuminates the role of naval provisioning in the early development of extensive sea fisheries, with their long-term economic and ecological impacts.

Citation

Hutchinson, W. F., Culling, M., Orton, D. C., Hänfling, B., Handley, L. L., Hamilton-Dyer, S., O'Connell, T. C., Richards, M. P., & Barrett, J. H. (2015). The globalization of naval provisioning: ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses of stored cod from the wreck of the Mary Rose, AD 1545. Royal Society Open Science, 2(9), 150199. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150199

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Aug 14, 2015
Online Publication Date	Sep 9, 2015
Publication Date	Sep 1, 2015
Deposit Date	Aug 6, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Aug 7, 2018
Journal	Royal Society Open Science
Electronic ISSN	2054-5703
Publisher	The Royal Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	2
Issue	9
Pages	150199
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150199
Keywords	Historical ecology; Single-nucleotide polymorphisms; Stable isotope analysis; Cod; Fish trade; Mary Rose
Public URL	https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/914659
Publisher URL	http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/9/150199
Contract Date	Aug 6, 2018

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