A team of archaeologists, biologists and historians from institutions in Norway, the Netherlands, the U.K. and France has found via use of zooarchaeology techniques and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting that humans contributed to reductions in some whale populations before the advent of industrial whaling began in Europe. In their project, reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group studied recovered ancient bones from whales that lived off the coast of Europe over the years 3,500 BCE to the 18th century CE.
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Source: Phys.org