Jonas Holm Jæger
@jonasholmjaeger
PhD Fellow | biomolecular archaeology | UCPH | Currently obsessed with sheep husbandry | aDNA, palaeoproteomics, isotopes | 🐑🧬🦷🦴 | if it’s old and/or dead I’m probably into it jonashjaeger.github.io
Gislingebåden, dateret til 1130-1150 e.Kr., er en godt 7,5 m lang og 1,5 m bred klinkbygget båd udført hovedsageligt i eg med reparationer i bøgetræ. Båden blev fundet i 1993 under udgravning til en havedam og er ganske velbevaret. Her ses kalfatringsmateriale muligvis i uld.
Bobjergkvinden fra romersk jernalder, Odsherreds Museum, tidligere Asnæs Gymnasium.
Haven’t posted in a while. But this is too good. I have red wine. A fire. And @themountaingoats.bsky.social on my reasonably volumed speaker. Can’t get much better than this.
Ladbyfyrsten, 900-950 evt. Her er vedkommende, nok en rig høvding, begravet i et helt skib fyldt med gravgods, bl.a. seletøj til heste og hunde, spillebræt, service af forskellig slags, våben og resterne fra mindst 11 heste og fire hunde.
Kvinden fra Himlingøje, 150-300 evt. en velhavende kvinde fra Stevns som er gravlagt med dragtnåle, smykker, romersk drikkeservice og en charonsmønt i munden.
Egtvedpigen, 1370 fvt. Hun er gravlagt med bluse, snoreskørt og bælteplade som nok afspejler hendes funktion og plads i samfundet. Derudover har hun fået de kremerede rester af et lille barn med samt en barkspand med sødet øl.
Kvinde og spædbarn fra Bøgebakken, 5500-4500 fvt. Kvinden er begravet med adskillige tandperler, barnet er lagt på en svanevinge og har fået en lille flintkniv med. Derudover er graven overstrøet med rød okker.
Helt igennem velfungerende Minolta XG-M (så godt som mint condish) med glasklar 45mm 2f Rokkor monteret. 149 kr i genbrugsen. Nogen har taget røven på sig selv da de afleverede det dernede.
This is what my desk looked like when I handed in my PhD thesis a few hours ago.
We sampled sheep from Northern Jutland and Zealand from four different sites.
Median joining network shows lack of geographical clustering suggesting that Danish Late Iron Age sheep did not form a local “breed” but was embedded within a wider Northern European gene pool.
We also found that the sheep are related to modern Northern European Short-tailed sheep breeds such as Old Norwegian and Finnsheep. 📸 Thomas Bjørkan, Wikipedia
Importantly, the Late Iron Age saw an increase in textile production including wool textiles. Allowing sheep to feed on eelgrass would have provided important nutrients, particularly sulfur, which is very important for keratin synthesis and therefore wool quality. 📸 Vikingeskibsmuseet, Roskilde
This is supported by consistenly low to moderate d34S values.
We argue that the d13C enrichment is related to the consumption of marine-derived vegetation, particularly, eelgrass (Zostera sp.) 📸 videnskab.dk
What we found was quite surprising. We found consistently enriched d13C values for the majrority of the sheep with no clear geographical differences.
We sampled, for d13C, d15N and d34S isotopes, 27 Late Iron Age sheep mandibles from six different Danish sites. All mandibles had previosly been confirmed as sheep using #ZooMS
Wild to think that tornadoes and large sauropods co-existed for millions of years. Even wilder to consider how, at one point, some insane EF5 likely picked up a fully grown brachiosaur and hurled it across some prehistoric plain.