The prehistoric origins of Orcadian cultural exchange networks: biomolecular and morphometric studies of Orkney voles

奥卡迪亚文化交流网络的史前起源：奥克尼田鼠的生物分子和形态测量研究

• 批准号: 119396/1
• 负责人: Keith Dobney
• 金额: $ 20.06万
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=119396%2F1
• 关键词: prehistoric; origins; Orcadian; cultural; exchange

The Orkney vole (Microtus arvialis orcadensis) is unique to being the only non-domestic animal introduced into the British Isles by Neolithic farmers. By analysing the differences/ similarities in tooth shape and DNA from their modern and ancient remains, we will explore their geographic origins in prehistory, which in turn will provide important new information about the continental European origins and exchange networks of the early human inhabitants of Orkney.

Orkney Vole（Microtus arvialis orcadensis）是新石器时代农民引入不列颠群岛的唯一非动物。通过分析现代和古老遗骸中牙齿形状和DNA的差异/相似性，我们将探索它们在史前历史中的地理起源，这反过来又将提供有关奥克尼早期人类居民的欧洲大陆起源和交流网络的重要新信息。