ChemArch - ESR 12: Jakob Hansen

ESR 12: From ideology to economy: unveiling the taxonomic origin of animal bone artefacts with palaeoproteomic analysis (Barcelona/Copenhagen)

Jakob Hansen

I am interested in species compositions of past societies and how hard tissues were utilised. Particularly strategies involving the selection/opportunism of taxa for the manufacture of bone artefacts – why I have been working with the palaeoproteomic method ZooMS enabling taxonomic identification of bone where diagnostic features are absent.

My PhD Project

For a great deal of prehistoric bone artefacts, it is not clear whether artefact production was a mere function of the tangible physical properties of hard tissues available or entangled the intangible ideological values of animals used. This question cannot be easily solved using traditional archaeozoological analysis because prehistoric manufacture often removed diagnostic features for taxonomic identification. Therefore, palaeoproteomic analyses will be applied for the taxonomic identification of a range of Neolithic bone artefacts from the Iberian Peninsula. The results will be integrated with contextual and regional archaeological faunal information to investigate the degree of opportunism/selection in bone tool manufacture.

CV

Education:

Master of Arts (MA) in Prehistoric Archaeology, Aarhus University (2018-2020)
Bachelor (BA) in Prehistoric Archaeology and Museological Studies, Aarhus University (2015-2019)
Internship, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution (2019)
Course, Archaeomics – Science in the Post-Genome Era, Copenhagen University (2018)

Employments:

Archaeologist, Department for Archaeology and Research, Vejlemuseerne (2021)
Student worker, Department for Conservation and Natural Science, Moesgaard Museum (2016-2019)

Publications

Kveiborg, J., Hansen, J., Sinet-Mathiot, V. & Hornstrup, K.M. (2020) Korsformede benknapper fra yngre bronzealder. SKALK, 3, 10-13.

Hansen, J., Haase, K. & Brandt, L.Ø. (2019) Kamme og kammageri i middelalderens Odense – nye resultater fra udgravningerne ved Thomas B. Thriges Gade. Odense Bys Museer, 2019, 21-29.

Nielsen, E.K., Roborg, A.S., Stephansen, C.F., Alemanno, S.S., Hansen, J., Aagaard, J.B. & Løvschal, M. (2018) Keramikrige gruber og velbevarede agre fra førromersk jernalder ved Boes Skov, Østjylland. Gefjon, 3 (1), 82-97.

Supervisor

Maria Sana (UAB)

Co-supervisor

Frido Welker (UCPH)

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