Distinguishing African bovids using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): New peptide markers and insights into Iron Age economies in Zambia

• Anneke Janzen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ajanzen@utk.edu

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-7469

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• Kristine Korzow Richter,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ogeto Mwebi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Osteology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Samantha Brown,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5001-525X

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• Veronicah Onduso,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Osteology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Filia Gatwiri,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Archaeology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Emmanuel Ndiema,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Archaeology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Maggie Katongo,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Livingstone Museum, Livingstone, Zambia

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• Steven T. Goldstein,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

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• Katerina Douka,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

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• Nicole Boivin

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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