🦷 A new study by @marinemorvan.bsky.social
High-throughput paleoproteomics method using MALDI-CASI-FTICR mass spectrometry to estimate biological sex from tooth enamel.
Great success on 130 individuals from medieval Great Moravia.
#Bioarchaeology #Archaeology #Proteomics #TooMS 😉 #Teammasspec
www.biorxiv.org
Given the recent and upcoming recovery of ancient proteins from archaic human remains this would be something to keep in mind. The missmatch of autosomal, mitochondrial, Y chromosome and morphology-based trees is already complicated for these groups, proteins might add some to that complexity!
The data fit just fine if you assume these 6 samples being from a Denisovan subpopulation and not from a homo erectus relic population.