HEИндивидуална стипендия2022–2024

PRISTINE · PRehistoric fISheries assisTing marIne baseliNEs

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-11-01 → 2024-11-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 211 755 €
Участници: 3
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Видове риби, уловени от неолитни общности в Индо-Тихоокеанския регион, се идентифицират чрез анализ на протеини в древни останки. Това помага да се разберат дългосрочните ефекти от риболова и да се установи състоянието на морската среда преди много векове.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

PRehistoric fISheries assisTing marIne baseliNEs

PRISTINE was born out of the need to understand the roots of the shifted baseline in Indo-Pacific fisheries, one of the most threatened marine regions. To achieve this, it was essential to expand the time frame beyond traditional fisheries records, which often rely on data from recent decades—insufficient for assessing the long-term impacts of fish exploitation. Given that the Indo-Pacific has a long history of marine resource exploitation dating back to at least the Neolithic, we targeted this period to establish a starting point for the baseline. This is why the project was named PRISTINE (PRehistoric fIsheries Assisting Marine Baselines). We delved into ichthyoarchaeological data to learn about and identify the fish species that ancient Neolithic communities were fishing in different regions of the Indo-Pacific. However, detailed taxonomic identification of Indo-Pacific fish remains is challenging due to the region's high species diversity and the limitations of morphological analysis. These challenges hinder our understanding of prehistoric fisheries and their long-term impacts. To overcome this, we relied on cutting-edge paleoproteomic techniques to obtain accurate species identification of prehistoric fish remains through the following objectives: 1) develop a collagen reference database of representative modern Indo-Pacific fishes, 2) obtain taxonomic identifications of Neolithic fish remains, and 3) conduct a long-term evaluation of Indo-Pacific fisheries.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Ensuring sustainable fisheries is one of the key issues to address the conservation of marine biodiversity and socio-economic development. Such approaches usually operate based on fisheries records from the last decades, which are proved to be inappropriate reference criteria for evaluating long-term impacts of fish exploitation whereas archaeological data is increasingly admitted as an essential source of information. One of the most severely threatened marine regions is the Indo-Pacific, which also holds a rich history of marine resources exploitation since, at least, the Neolithic. Specific taxonomical identification of Indo-Pacific fish remains is still a pending task mainly due to the high diversity of fishes exploited and to difficulties in species identification from morphological analysis. This situation impedes acquiring a deep understanding of the prehistoric fisheries and their impacts over time. Through the analyses of archaeological and modern fishes from the Indo-Pacific, PRISTINE will implement a back to the future approach to provide reliable ecological baselines and enhance our current understanding of fish exploitation from a long-term perspective by identifying and quantifying the range of fish species exploited dating back 5,000 years. To this aim, PRISTINE will apply cutting-edge proteomic methodologies to 1) develop a finger-print Collagen Reference Database of representative modern Indo-Pacific fishes, 2) obtain the taxonomical identification of Neolithic fish remains, and 3) achieve a long-term evaluation of Indo-Pacific fisheries. This research will contribute to attempts on the identification of healthy tropical reef fisheries and evaluation of anthropogenic impacts over time to assist in ensuring efforts to conserve the present and manage the future of marine scenarios.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE · ParisКоординаторФранция
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE · CambridgeСъединени щати
THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · CAMBRIDGEОбединеното кралство