title: The globalization of naval provisioning: ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses of stored cod from the wreck of the Mary Rose, AD 1545.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences , University of Hull , Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
authors.forename: William F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Hutchinson
authors.affiliation: Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences , University of Hull , Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Culling
authors.affiliation: BioArCh, Department of Archaeology , University of York , York YO10 5DD, UK.
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Orton
authors.affiliation: Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences , University of Hull , Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hänfling
authors.affiliation: Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences , University of Hull , Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lawson Handley
authors.affiliation: SH-D ArchaeoZoology, 5 Suffolk Avenue , Shirley , Southampton SO15 5EF, UK.
authors.forename: Sheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hamilton-Dyer
authors.affiliation: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK.
authors.forename: Tamsin C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: O'Connell
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology , University of British Columbia , Vancouver Campus, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1 ; Department of Human Evolution , Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology , Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.affiliation: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK.
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Barrett
keywords: Mary Rose; cod; fish trade; historical ecology; single-nucleotide polymorphisms; stable isotope analysis