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Department of Archaeology

 

Biography

I conduct research on the persistence of proteins in ancient samples, using modelling to explore the racemization of amino acids and thermal history to predict the survival of DNA and other molecules. Using a combination of approaches (including immunology and protein mass spectrometry) my research detects and interprets protein remnants in archaeological and fossil remains.

With former PhD student Dr Mike Buckley I developed ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) a way to rapidly identify bone and other collagen based materials using peptide mass fingerprinting.

https://sites.google.com/palaeome.org/2018-ancient-proteins/home

 

Research

The application of ancient proteins to archaeology

Analysis of protein evolution and decay

 

I am presently involved in the following research projects in:

2016 - 2021 Niels Bohr Professor of Palaeoproteomics: University of Copenhagen: To establish new research capacity in plaeoprotemics in Denmark

2018 - 2023 Beasts to Craft:  Parchment as a biological archive

2019 - 2023 ArcHives: Beeswax as a biological archive

 

Also visit: https://evogenomics.snm.ku.dk/palaeoproteomics/

 

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4226-5501

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Collins

Information for Prospective Postgraduate Students

Students that work with me have to be self motivated as my post in Cambridge is only 40%, 60% of the time I am in Copenhagen.   At present I have sufficient students, and do not think that I can realistically supervise more than I am planning to take on in 2021 from the ChemArch and PlaCE ITNs

I do not take self funded students, but will try to work with you to help find funding.

I like to collaborate so if you do contact me, I may try to find a way for you to work with my colleagues and I. 

Key Publications

Key publications

Demarchi, B., Hall, S., Roncal-Herrero, T., Freeman, C. L., Woolley, J., Crisp, M. K., Wilson, J., Fotakis, A., Fischer, R., Kessler, B. M., Rakownikow Jersie-Christensen, R., Olsen, J. V., Haile, J., Thomas, J., Marean, C. W., Parkington, J., Presslee, S., Lee-Thorp, J., Ditchfield, P., … Collins, M. J. (2016). Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time. eLife, 5, e17092.

Hendy, J., Colonese, A. C., Franz, I., Fernandes, R., Fischer, R., Orton, D., Lucquin, A., Spindler, L., Anvari, J., Stroud, E., Biehl, P. F., Speller, C., Boivin, N., Mackie, M., Jersie-Christensen, R. R., Olsen, J. V., Collins, M. J., Craig, O. E., & Rosenstock, E. (2018). Ancient proteins from ceramic vessels at Çatalhöyük West reveal the hidden cuisine of early farmers. Nature Communications, 9(1), 4064.

Jensen, T. Z. T., Niemann, J., Iversen, K. H., Fotakis, A. K., Gopalakrishnan, S., Vågene, Å. J., Pedersen, M. W., Sinding, M.-H. S., Ellegaard, M. R., Allentoft, M. E., Lanigan, L. T., Taurozzi, A. J., Nielsen, S. H., Dee, M. W., Mortensen, M. N., Christensen, M. C., Sørensen, S. A., Collins, M. J., Gilbert, M. T. P., … Schroeder, H. (2019). A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch. Nature Communications, 10(1), 5520.

Teasdale, M. D., Fiddyment, S., Vnouček, J., Mattiangeli, V., Speller, C., Binois, A., Carver, M., Dand, C., Newfield, T. P., Webb, C. C., Bradley, D. G., & Collins, M. J. (2017). The York Gospels: a 1000-year biological palimpsest. Royal Society Open Science, 4(10), 170988.

Verdugo, M. P., Mullin, V. E., Scheu, A., Mattiangeli, V., Daly, K. G., Maisano Delser, P., Hare, A. J., Burger, J., Collins, M. J., Kehati, R., Hesse, P., Fulton, D., Sauer, E. W., Mohaseb, F. A., Davoudi, H., Khazaeli, R., Lhuillier, J., Rapin, C., Ebrahimi, S., … Bradley, D. G. (2019). Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent. Science, 365(6449), 173–176.

Other publications

Publication

Journal articles

2026

Ryder, C., Celis, G., Devièse, T., Talamo, S., Douka, K., Collins, M., Perri, A., Thakar, H., Pestle, W. and Sponheimer, M., 2026. Refining near-infrared spectroscopy for collagen quantification: A new predictive model for archaeological bone Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 185
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106448

de Kock, W., van der Meer, MTJ., van Bommel, R., Taurozzi, AJ., Von Tersch, M., Allentoft, ME., Mackie, M., Ramsøe, M., Collins, M., Alexander, M., Palsbøll, PJ., Çakırlar, C. and Turkozan, O., 2026. Stable isotope evidence of anthropocene disruption in African softshell turtle foraging. PLoS One, v. 21
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0339589

2025 (Published online)

Appart, M., Vnouček, J., Fourneau, M., Gros, N., Cecchet, F., Poumay, Y., Canon, C., Collins, MJ. and Deparis, O., 2025 (Published online). Peeling back the past: sheepskin delamination and patch repairs in parchment Heritage Science, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s40494-025-02250-4

Dekker, JAA., Peters, C., Winter, RM., Collins, MJ., Dickinson, MR., Harvey, VL., Hill, E., Nair, B., Tsutaya, T., Caron, LCV., Warinner, C., Welker, F. and Fagernäs, Z., 2025 (Published online). Author response of: Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. Round#1 Peer Community In Archaeology,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100601.ar1

2025

Early, EMK., Bell, CJ., Collins, MJ. and Shanahan, TM., 2025. Proteomic analysis resulting in species‐level identification of recently diverged North American arvicoline rodents Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 40
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70011

Dekker, JAA., Hagan, R., Collins, M. and Hendy, J., 2025. An unclean slate, discrepancies between food input and recovered protein signal from experimental foodcrusts. PLoS One, v. 20
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330195

Adair, LR., Lewis, ME., Collins, MJ. and Cramer, R., 2025. LAP-MALDI MS analysis of amelogenin from teeth for biological sex estimation. J Pharm Biomed Anal, v. 255
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpba.2024.116599

Daly, KG., Mullin, VE., Hare, AJ., Halpin, Á., Mattiangeli, V., Teasdale, MD., Rossi, C., Geiger, S., Krebs, S., Medugorac, I., Sandoval-Castellanos, E., Özbaşaran, M., Duru, G., Gülcür, S., Pöllath, N., Collins, M., Frantz, L., Vila, E., Zidarov, P., Stoddart, S., Boldgiv, B., Orlando, L., Pearson, MP., Mullville, J., Askeyev, IV., Askeyev, AO., Askeyev, OV., Shaymuratova, DN., Van den Hurk, Y., Zeeb-Lanz, A., Arbogast, R-M., Hemmer, H., Davoudi, H., Amiri, S., Doost, SB., Decruyenaere, D., Fathi, H., Khazaeli, R., Hassanzadeh, Y., Sardari, A., Lhuillier, J., Abdolahi, M., Summers, GD., Marro, C., Bahshaliyev, V., Berthon, R., Çakirlar, C., Benecke, N., Scheu, A., Burger, J., Sauer, E., Horwitz, LK., Arbuckle, B., Buitenhuis, H., Gourichon, L., Bulatović, J., O'Connor, T., Orton, D., Jalabadze, M., Rhodes, S., Chazan, M., Özkaya, V., Zeder, M., Atıcı, L., Mashkour, M., Peters, J. and Bradley, DG., 2025. Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep. Science, v. 387
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn2094

Zaggia, C., Martinón-Torres, M., Collins, M., Dawson, J. and Strudwick, H., 2025. Technological and compositional variation in pink and white pastes from a coffin set of the late Third Intermediate Period (Thebes, ca. 680–664 BCE) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 62
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105019

Eriksen, AMH., Rodríguez, JA., Seersholm, F., Hollund, HI., Gotfredsen, AB., Collins, MJ., Grønnow, B., Pedersen, MW., Gilbert, MTP. and Matthiesen, H., 2025. Exploring DNA degradation in situ and in museum storage through genomics and metagenomics. Commun Biol, v. 8
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07616-9

Lévêque, É., Teasdale, MD., Fiddyment, S., Bro-Jørgensen, MH., Spindler, L., Macleod, R., Bougard, F., Tange Olsen, M. and Collins, M., 2025. Hiding in plain sight: the biomolecular identification of pinniped use in medieval manuscripts. R Soc Open Sci, v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241090

Kasso, T., Zaggia, C., Pastorelli, G., Ramsøe, M., Collins, MJ. and Brøns, C., 2025. Behind the mask − Archaeometric analysis of four gilded Romano-Egyptian mummy masks from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 64
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105106

Standeven, FJ., Dahlquist-Axe, G., Hendy, J., Fiddyment, S., Holst, M., McGrath, K., Collins, M., Mundorff, A., Radini, A., Wagner, J., Meehan, CJ., Tedder, A. and Speller, CF., 2025. An extensive archaeological dental calculus dataset spanning 5000 years for ancient human oral microbiome research Data in Brief, v. 61
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.111770

Dekker, JAA., Peter, C., Winter, RM., Collins, MJ., Dickinson, MR., Harvey, VL., Hil, E., Nair, B., Tsutaya, T., Vinas-Caron, LC., Warinner, C., Welker, F. and Fagernas, Z., 2025. Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics PEER COMMUNITY JOURNAL, v. 5
Doi: http://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.576

2024 (Published online)

Rodriguez Palomo, I., Nair, B., Chiang, Y., Dekker, J., Dartigues, B., Mackie, M., Evans, M., Macleod, R., Olsen, JV. and Collins, MJ., 2024 (Published online). Benchmarking the identification of a single degraded protein to explore optimal search strategies for ancient proteins Peer Community Journal, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.491

Palandri, C., Kasso, T., Daly, A., Hesselberg-Wang, N., Vnouček, J., Bill, J., Wilkinson, HD., Puskar, L., Kutzke, H., Fiddyment, S. and Collins, MJ., 2024 (Published online). Printing and imprinting the Missale Nidrosiense: a multidisciplinary investigation of the first printed book of Norway Heritage Science, v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-024-01255-9

Kasso, T., Stenger, J., Zaggia, C., Pastorelli, G., Ramsøe, M., Ravnsborg, T., Jensen, ON., Yvanez, E., Spinazzi-Lucchesi, C., Collins, MJ. and Brøns, C., 2024 (Published online). Facing death: a multidisciplinary analysis of a Romano-Egyptian mummy mask at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Heritage Science, v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-024-01354-7

2024 (Accepted for publication)

Evans, M., Hagan, R., Bondetti, M., Boyd, O., Craig, OE., Collins, MJ. and Hendy, J., 2024 (Accepted for publication). The impact of cooking and burial on proteins: a characterisation of experimental foodcrusts and ceramics Royal Society Open Science,

Chiang, Y., Welker, F. and Collins, MJ., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Spectra without stories: reporting 94% dark and unidentified ancient proteomes. Open Res Eur, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.17225.1

2024

Kasso, T., Mackie, M., Ramsøe, M., Vilhelmsen, L., Gundlach, C., Baier-Stegmaier, S., Taurozzi, AJ. and Collins, MJ., 2024. A queen's tale: An experimental palaeoproteomic study of a honey bee queen cell specimen from Natural History Museum Denmark. Open Res Eur, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.18538.2

Johns, SP., Maule, CA., Angelova, L., Vermeulen, M., Day, C., Muñoz-Alegre, M., Collins, MJ. and Roffet-Salque, M., 2024. Minimally Invasive Vacuum-Aided Extraction Technique for the Lipid Analysis of Historic Parchment. Anal Chem, v. 96
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c01395

Evans, M., Hagan, R., Boyd, OJ., Bondetti, M., Craig, OE., Collins, MJ. and Hendy, J., 2024. The impact of cooking and burial on proteins: a characterisation of experimental foodcrusts and ceramics Royal Society Open Science, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240610

Rossi, C., Sinding, M-HS., Mullin, VE., Scheu, A., Erven, JAM., Verdugo, MP., Daly, KG., Ciucani, MM., Mattiangeli, V., Teasdale, MD., Diquelou, D., Manin, A., Bangsgaard, P., Collins, M., Lord, TC., Zeibert, V., Zorzin, R., Vinter, M., Timmons, Z., Kitchener, AC., Street, M., Haruda, AF., Tabbada, K., Larson, G., Frantz, LAF., Gehlen, B., Alhaique, F., Tagliacozzo, A., Fornasiero, M., Pandolfi, L., Karastoyanova, N., Sørensen, L., Kiryushin, K., Ekström, J., Mostadius, M., Grandal-d'Anglade, A., Vidal-Gorosquieta, A., Benecke, N., Kropp, C., Grushin, SP., Gilbert, MTP., Merts, I., Merts, V., Outram, AK., Rosengren, E., Kosintsev, P., Sablin, M., Tishkin, AA., Makarewicz, CA., Burger, J. and Bradley, DG., 2024. The genomic natural history of the aurochs. Nature, v. 635
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08112-6

Vermeulen, M., Johns, SP., dePolo, G., Rocha, PM., Collins, MJ., Angelova, L. and Roffet-Salque, M., 2024. Assessing the effect of minimally invasive lipid extraction on parchment integrity by artificial ageing and integrated analytical techniques Polymer Degradation and Stability, v. 230
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2024.111076

Kasso, TM., Jensen, AB., Johns, S., Roffet-Salque, M., Collins, MJ. and Enevold, R., 2024. Beescapes – extracting pollen from historical Danish beeswax to explore honeybee foraging Palynology, v. 48
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2023.2288220

Wilkin, S., Lanigan, LT., Montes, N., Sharma, M., Avanzi, C., Sejdiu, D., Majander, K., Pfrengle, S., Chiang, Y., Kunz, L., Dittmann, A., Rühli, F., Singh, P., Coll, MF., Collins, MJ., Taurozzi, AJ. and Schuenemann, VJ., 2024. Sequential trypsin and ProAlanase digestions unearth immunological protein biomarkers shrouded by skeletal collagen. iScience, v. 27
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109663

2023 (Published online)

Kasso, TM., Enevold, R., Johns, S., Rangel-Piñeros, G., Taurozzi, AJ., Sutherland, A., Ramsøe, M., Angelova, LV., Roffet-Salque, M., Collins, MJ. and Carøe, C., 2023 (Published online). ArcHives—combined palynological, genomic and lipid analysis of medieval wax seals Heritage Science, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-022-00848-6

Peters, C., Wang, Y., Vakil, V., Cramb, J., Dortch, J., Hocknull, S., Lawrence, R., Manne, T., Monks, C., Rössner, GE., Ryan, H., Siversson, M., Ziegler, T., Louys, J., Price, GJ., Boivin, N. and Collins, MJ., 2023 (Published online). Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years Communications Earth & Environment, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01114-8

Nair, B., Palomo, IR., Markussen, B., Wiuf, C., Fiddyment, S. and Collins, MJ., 2023 (Published online). Parchment Glutamine Index (PQI): A novel method to estimate glutamine deamidation levels in parchment collagen obtained from low-quality MALDI-TOF data Peer Community Journal, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.230

2023 (Accepted for publication)

Saitta, ET., Vinther, J., Crisp, MK., Abbott, GD., Wheeler, L., Presslee, S., Kaye, TG., Bull, I., Fletcher, I., Chen, X., Vidal, D., Sanguino, F., Buscalioni, ÁD., Calvo, J., Sereno, PC., Baumgart, SL., Pittman, M., Collins, MJ., Sakalauskaite, J., Mackie, M., Bello, FD., Dickinson, MR., Stevenson, MA., Donohoe, P., Heck, PR., Demarchi, B. and Penkman, KEH., 2023 (Accepted for publication). Non-avian dinosaur eggshell calcite can contain ancient, endogenous amino acids Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 365
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.11.016

2023

Fontani, F., Boano, R., Cinti, A., Demarchi, B., Sandron, S., Rampelli, S., Candela, M., Traversari, M., Latorre, A., Iacovera, R., Abondio, P., Sarno, S., Mackie, M., Collins, M., Radini, A., Milani, C., Petrella, E., Giampalma, E., Minelli, A., Larocca, F., Cilli, E. and Luiselli, D., 2023. Bioarchaeological and paleogenomic profiling of the unusual Neolithic burial from Grotta di Pietra Sant'Angelo (Calabria, Italy). Sci Rep, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39250-y

van den Hurk, Y., Sikström, F., Amkreutz, L., Bleasdale, M., Borvon, A., Ephrem, B., Fernández-Rodríguez, C., Gibbs, HMB., Jonsson, L., Lehouck, A., Cedeira, JM., Meng, S., Monge, R., Moreno, M., Nabais, M., Nores, C., Pis-Millán, JA., Riddler, I., Schmölcke, U., Segschneider, M., Speller, C., Vretemark, M., Wickler, S., Collins, M., Nadeau, M-J. and Barrett, JH., 2023. The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting. R Soc Open Sci, v. 10
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230741

Winter, RM., de Kock, W., Mackie, M., Ramsøe, M., Desiderà, E., Collins, M., Guidetti, P., Presslee, S., Alegre, MM., Oueslati, T., Muniz, AM., Michailidis, D., van den Hurk, Y., Taurozzi, AJ. and Çakirlar, C., 2023. Grouping groupers in the Mediterranean: Ecological baselines revealed by ancient proteins. Ecol Evol, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10625

Jensen, TZT., Yeomans, L., Le Meillour, L., Nielsen, PW., Ramsøe, M., Mackie, M., Bangsgaard, P., Kinzel, M., Thuesen, I., Collins, MJ. and Taurozzi, AJ., 2023. Tryps-IN: A streamlined palaeoproteomics workflow enables ZooMS analysis of 10,000-year-old petrous bones from Jordan rift-valley Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, v. 52
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104238

Chidimuro, B., Holst, M., Newman, S., Keefe, K., Collins, MJ. and Alexander, M., 2023. Grim up North? Exploring the diet of urban populations in post-medieval Greater Manchester, England, using stable isotope analysis Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01881-7

Freeman, CL., Dieudonné, L., Agbaje, OBA., Žure, M., Sanz, JQ., Collins, M. and Sand, KK., 2023. Survival of environmental DNA in sediments: Mineralogic control on DNA taphonomy Environmental DNA, v. 5
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.482

Brandt, LØ., Mackie, M., Daragan, M., Collins, MJ. and Gleba, M., 2023. Human and animal skin identified by palaeoproteomics in Scythian leather objects from Ukraine. PLoS One, v. 18
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294129

Doherty, SP., Alexander, MM., Henderson, S., Newton, J., Finch, J. and Collins, MJ., 2023. Tracking the British agricultural revolution through the isotopic analysis of dated parchment. Sci Rep, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26013-4

Grealy, A., Miller, GH., Phillips, MJ., Clarke, SJ., Fogel, M., Patalwala, D., Rigby, P., Hubbard, A., Demarchi, B., Collins, M., Mackie, M., Sakalauskaite, J., Stiller, J., Clarke, JA., Legendre, LJ., Douglass, K., Hansford, J., Haile, J. and Bunce, M., 2023. Molecular exploration of fossil eggshell uncovers hidden lineage of giant extinct bird. Nat Commun, v. 14
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36405-3

Viñas-Caron, LC., Rodríguez Palomo, I., Fazlic, N., Vnouček, J., Driscoll, M., Fiddyment, S. and Collins, MJ., 2023. A biological reading of a palimpsest. iScience, v. 26
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106786

Chidimuro, B., Doherty, S., Finch, J., Ponce, P., Eggington, J., Delaney, S., Speller, C., Collins, MJ., Holst, M. and Alexander, M., 2023. North and South: Exploring isotopic analysis of bone carbonates and collagen to understand post-medieval diets in London and northern England. Am J Biol Anthropol, v. 182
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24818

Alarashi, H., Benz, M., Gresky, J., Burkhardt, A., Fischer, A., Gourichon, L., Gerlitzki, M., Manfred, M., Sakalauskaite, J., Demarchi, B., Mackie, M., Collins, M., Odriozola, CP., Garrido Cordero, JÁ., Avilés, MÁ., Vigorelli, L., Re, A. and Gebel, HGK., 2023. Threads of memory: Reviving the ornament of a dead child at the Neolithic village of Ba`ja (Jordan). PLoS One, v. 18
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288075

2022 (Published online)

Bethencourt, JH., Palomo, IR., Hickinbotham, S., Nair, B., Soncin, S., Dieu, M., Collins, M. and Deparis, O., 2022 (Published online). Data From “A Biocodicological Analysis of the Medieval Library and Archive From Orval Abbey, Belgium” Journal of Open Archaeology Data, v. 10
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.89

2022 (Accepted for publication)

Nair, B., Palomo, IR., Markussen, B., Wiuf, C., Fiddyment, S. and Collins, MJ., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Parchment Glutamine Index (PQI): A novel method to estimate glutamine deamidation levels in parchment collagen obtained from low-quality MALDI-TOF data Peer Community in Archaeology,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.13.483627

2022

Fonseca, B., Freeman, CL. and Collins, MJ., 2022. Conformational analysis and water dynamics: a molecular dynamics study on the survival of a β-lactoglobulin peptide in the archaeological record Chemical Physics, v. 561
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2022.111602

Brandt, LØ., Taurozzi, AJ., Mackie, M., Sinding, M-HS., Vieira, FG., Schmidt, AL., Rimstad, C., Collins, MJ. and Mannering, U., 2022. Palaeoproteomics identifies beaver fur in Danish high-status Viking Age burials - direct evidence of fur trade. PLoS One, v. 17
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270040

Kontopoulos, I., Van de Vijver, K., Robberechts, B., von Tersch, M., Turner‐Walker, G., Penkman, K. and Collins, MJ., 2022. Histological and stable isotope analysis of archeological bones from St. Rombout's cemetery (Mechelen, Belgium): Intrasite, intraindividual, and intrabone variability International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, v. 32
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3145

Brandt, LØ., Lillemark, MR., Rytter, M., Collins, MJ. and Tøttrup, AP., 2022. Next Generation Lab puts Denmark's past in the hands of its future Antiquity, v. 96
Doi: http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.170

Demarchi, B., Mackie, M., Li, Z., Deng, T., Collins, MJ. and Clarke, J., 2022. Survival of mineral-bound peptides into the Miocene. Elife, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.82849

Kjær, KH., Winther Pedersen, M., De Sanctis, B., De Cahsan, B., Korneliussen, TS., Michelsen, CS., Sand, KK., Jelavić, S., Ruter, AH., Schmidt, AMA., Kjeldsen, KK., Tesakov, AS., Snowball, I., Gosse, JC., Alsos, IG., Wang, Y., Dockter, C., Rasmussen, M., Jørgensen, ME., Skadhauge, B., Prohaska, A., Kristensen, JÅ., Bjerager, M., Allentoft, ME., Coissac, E., PhyloNorway Consortium, A., Rouillard, A., Simakova, A., Fernandez-Guerra, C., Bowler, M., Macias-Fauria, L., Vinner, JJ., Welch, AJ., Hidy, M., Sikora, MJ., Collins, R., Durbin, NK., Larsen, E. and Willerslev, , 2022. A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA. Nature, v. 612
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05453-y

Doherty, SP., Collins, MJ., Harris, AJT., Sistiaga, A., Newton, J. and Alexander, MM., 2022. A modern baseline for the paired isotopic analysis of skin and bone in terrestrial mammals. R Soc Open Sci, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211587

Chidimuro, B., Mundorff, A., Speller, C., Radini, A., Boudreault, N., Lucas, M., Holst, M., Lamb, A., Collins, M. and Alexander, M., 2022. Isotope analysis of human dental calculus δ13 CO3 2- : Investigating a potential new proxy for sugar consumption. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9286

Hofmann, C., Vnouček, J., Rabitsch, S., Aceto, M., Melo, MJ., Malissa, A., Uhlir, K., Griesser, M., Hradil, K., Erlach, R., Quandt, A., Sonderegger, J., Fiddyment, S. and Collins, M., 2022. The Vienna Genesis: An Example of Late Antique Purple Parchment. Restaurator (Cph), v. 43
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/res-2021-0019

2021 (Accepted for publication)

Doherty, SP., Henderson, S., Fiddyment, S., Finch, J. and Collins, MJ., 2021 (Accepted for publication). Scratching the surface: the use of sheepskin parchment to deter textual erasure in early modern legal deeds Heritage Science, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00503-6

Demarchi, B., Stiller, J., Grealy, A., Mackie, M., Deng, Y., Gilbert, T., Clarke, J., Legendre, LJ., Boano, R., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Magee, J., Zhang, G., Bunce, M., Collins, MJ. and Miller, G., 2021 (Accepted for publication). Ancient proteins resolve controversy over the identity of Genyornis eggshell. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109326119

2021

Coutu, AN., Taurozzi, AJ., Mackie, M., Jensen, TZT., Collins, MJ. and Sealy, J., 2021. Palaeoproteomics confirm earliest domesticated sheep in southern Africa ca. 2000 BP. Sci Rep, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85756-8

Perri, AR., Mitchell, KJ., Mouton, A., Álvarez-Carretero, S., Hulme-Beaman, A., Haile, J., Jamieson, A., Meachen, J., Lin, AT., Schubert, BW., Ameen, C., Antipina, EE., Bover, P., Brace, S., Carmagnini, A., Carøe, C., Samaniego Castruita, JA., Chatters, JC., Dobney, K., Dos Reis, M., Evin, A., Gaubert, P., Gopalakrishnan, S., Gower, G., Heiniger, H., Helgen, KM., Kapp, J., Kosintsev, PA., Linderholm, A., Ozga, AT., Presslee, S., Salis, AT., Saremi, NF., Shew, C., Skerry, K., Taranenko, DE., Thompson, M., Sablin, MV., Kuzmin, YV., Collins, MJ., Sinding, M-HS., Gilbert, MTP., Stone, AC., Shapiro, B., Van Valkenburgh, B., Wayne, RK., Larson, G., Cooper, A. and Frantz, LAF., 2021. Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage. Nature, v. 591
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x

Presslee, S., Penkman, K., Fischer, R., Richards-Slidel, E., Southon, J., Hospitaleche, CA., Collins, M. and MacPhee, R., 2021. Assessment of different screening methods for selecting palaeontological bone samples for peptide sequencing. J Proteomics, v. 230
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2020.103986

Matthiesen, H., Eriksen, AMH., Hollesen, J. and Collins, M., 2021. Bone degradation at five Arctic archaeological sites: Quantifying the importance of burial environment and bone characteristics Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 125
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105296

Runge, AKW., Hendy, J., Richter, KK., Masson-MacLean, E., Britton, K., Mackie, M., McGrath, K., Collins, M., Cappellini, E. and Speller, C., 2021. Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome. Proc Biol Sci, v. 288
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0020

Doherty, S., Alexander, MM., Vnouček, J., Newton, J. and Collins, MJ., 2021. Measuring the impact of parchment production on skin collagen stable isotope (δ13C and δ15N) values STAR Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2020.1868132

Fiddyment, S., Goodison, NJ., Brenner, E., Signorello, S., Price, K. and Collins, MJ., 2021. Girding the loins? Direct evidence of the use of a medieval English parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis. R Soc Open Sci, v. 8
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202055

Ruffini-Ronzani, N., Nieus, J-F., Soncin, S., Hickinbotham, S., Dieu, M., Bouhy, J., Charles, C., Ruzzier, C., Falmagne, T., Hermand, X., Collins, MJ. and Deparis, O., 2021. A biocodicological analysis of the medieval library and archive from Orval Abbey, Belgium. R Soc Open Sci, v. 8
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210210

Sakalauskaite, J., Mackie, M., Taurozzi, AJ., Collins, MJ., Marin, F. and Demarchi, B., 2021. The degradation of intracrystalline mollusc shell proteins: A proteomics study of Spondylus gaederopus. Biochim Biophys Acta Proteins Proteom, v. 1869
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbapap.2021.140718

Ramsøe, A., Crispin, M., Mackie, M., McGrath, K., Fischer, R., Demarchi, B., Collins, MJ., Hendy, J. and Speller, C., 2021. Assessing the degradation of ancient milk proteins through site-specific deamidation patterns. Sci Rep, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87125-x

2020 (Published online)

Fiddyment, S., Goodison, NJ., Brenner, E., Signorello, S., Price, K. and Collins, MJ., 2020 (Published online). Girding the loins? Direct evidence of the use of a medieval parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.21.348698

Fourneau, M., Canon, C., Van Vlaender, D., Collins, MJ., Fiddyment, S., Poumay, Y. and Deparis, O., 2020 (Published online). Histological study of sheep skin transformation during the recreation of historical parchment manufacture Heritage Science, v. 8
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-020-00421-z

2020 (Accepted for publication)

Jensen, TZT., Sjöström, A., Fischer, A., Rosengren, E., Lanigan, LT., Bennike, O., Richter, KK., Gron, KJ., Mackie, M., Mortensen, MF., Sørensen, L., Chivall, D., Iversen, KH., Taurozzi, AJ., Olsen, J., Schroeder, H., Milner, N., Sørensen, M. and Collins, M., 2020 (Accepted for publication). An integrated analysis of Maglemose bone points reframes the Early Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia Scientific Reports,

2020

Hickinbotham, S., Fiddyment, S., Stinson, TL. and Collins, MJ., 2020. How to get your goat: automated identification of species from MALDI-ToF spectra. Bioinformatics, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa181

Eriksen, AMH., Matthiesen, H., Kontopoulos, I., Gregory, D., Snoeck, C., Zhang, G., Collins, MJ. and Gilbert, MTP., 2020. Rapid loss of endogenous DNA in pig bone buried in five different environments Archaeometry, v. 62
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12553

Ramsøe, A., van Heekeren, V., Ponce, P., Fischer, R., Barnes, I., Speller, C. and Collins, MJ., 2020. DeamiDATE 1.0: Site-specific deamidation as a tool to assess authenticity of members of ancient proteomes Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 115
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105080

Lanigan, LT., Mackie, M., Feine, S., Hublin, J-J., Schmitz, RW., Wilcke, A., Collins, MJ., Cappellini, E., Olsen, JV., Taurozzi, AJ. and Welker, F., 2020. Multi-protease analysis of Pleistocene bone proteomes. J Proteomics, v. 228
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2020.103889

Scott, AB., Taurozzi, A., Hughes, N., Pedersen, DD., Kontopoulos, I., Mackie, M. and Collins, MJ., 2020. Comparing biological and pathological factors affecting osteocalcin concentrations in archaeological skeletal remains Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, v. 34
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102573

Kontopoulos, I., Penkman, K., Mullin, VE., Winkelbach, L., Unterländer, M., Scheu, A., Kreutzer, S., Hansen, HB., Margaryan, A., Teasdale, MD., Gehlen, B., Street, M., Lynnerup, N., Liritzis, I., Sampson, A., Papageorgopoulou, C., Allentoft, ME., Burger, J., Bradley, DG. and Collins, MJ., 2020. Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies. PLoS One, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235146

Eriksen, AMH., Nielsen, TK., Matthiesen, H., Carøe, C., Hansen, LH., Gregory, DJ., Turner-Walker, G., Collins, MJ. and Gilbert, MTP., 2020. Bone biodeterioration-The effect of marine and terrestrial depositional environments on early diagenesis and bone bacterial community. PLoS One, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240512

Morton-Hayward, AL., Thompson, T., Thomas-Oates, JE., Buckley, S., Petzold, A., Ramsøe, A., O’Connor, S. and Collins, MJ., 2020. 056/NEJMc1909867 ... STAR Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, v. 6
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2020.1815398

Macleod, R., Sinding, M-HS., Olsen, MT., Collins, MJ. and Rowland, SJ., 2020. DNA preserved in jetsam whale ambergris Biology Letters, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0819

Trolle Jensen, TZ., Mackie, M., Taurozzi, AJ., Lanigan, LT., Gundelach, C., Olsen, J., Sørensen, SA., Collins, MJ., Sørensen, M. and Schroeder, H., 2020. The biomolecular characterization of a finger ring contextually dated to the emergence of the Early Neolithic from Syltholm, Denmark. R Soc Open Sci, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191172

Richter, KK., McGrath, K., Masson-MacLean, E., Hickinbotham, S., Tedder, A., Britton, K., Bottomley, Z., Dobney, K., Hulme-Beaman, A., Zona, M., Fischer, R., Collins, MJ. and Speller, CF., 2020. What's the catch? Archaeological application of rapid collagen-based species identification for Pacific Salmon Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 116
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105116

2019 (Published online)

Fiddyment, S., Teasdale, MD., Vnouček, J., Lévêque, É., Binois, A. and Collins, MJ., 2019 (Published online). So you want to do biocodicology? A field guide to the biological analysis of parchment Heritage Science, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-019-0278-6

2019

Simpson, JP., Fascione, M., Bergström, E., Wilson, J., Collins, MJ., Penkman, KEH. and Thomas-Oates, J., 2019. Ionisation bias undermines the use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation for estimating peptide deamidation: Synthetic peptide studies demonstrate electrospray ionisation gives more reliable response ratios. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, v. 33
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8441

Verdugo, MP., Mullin, VE., Scheu, A., Mattiangeli, V., Daly, KG., Maisano Delser, P., Hare, AJ., Burger, J., Collins, MJ., Kehati, R., Hesse, P., Fulton, D., Sauer, EW., Mohaseb, FA., Davoudi, H., Khazaeli, R., Lhuillier, J., Rapin, C., Ebrahimi, S., Khasanov, M., Vahidi, SMF., MacHugh, DE., Ertuğrul, O., Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, C., Sampson, A., Kazantzis, G., Kontopoulos, I., Bulatovic, J., Stojanović, I., Mikdad, A., Benecke, N., Linstädter, J., Sablin, M., Bendrey, R., Gourichon, L., Arbuckle, BS., Mashkour, M., Orton, D., Horwitz, LK., Teasdale, MD. and Bradley, DG., 2019. Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent. Science, v. 365
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav1002

McGrath, K., Rowsell, K., Gates St-Pierre, C., Tedder, A., Foody, G., Roberts, C., Speller, C. and Collins, M., 2019. Identifying Archaeological Bone via Non-Destructive ZooMS and the Materiality of Symbolic Expression: Examples from Iroquoian Bone Points. Sci Rep, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47299-x

Welker, F., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Kuhlwilm, M., Liao, W., Gutenbrunner, P., de Manuel, M., Samodova, D., Mackie, M., Allentoft, ME., Bacon, A-M., Collins, MJ., Cox, J., Lalueza-Fox, C., Olsen, JV., Demeter, F., Wang, W., Marques-Bonet, T. and Cappellini, E., 2019. Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine. Nature, v. 576
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1728-8

Presslee, S., Slater, GJ., Pujos, F., Forasiepi, AM., Fischer, R., Molloy, K., Mackie, M., Olsen, JV., Kramarz, A., Taglioretti, M., Scaglia, F., Lezcano, M., Lanata, JL., Southon, J., Feranec, R., Bloch, J., Hajduk, A., Martin, FM., Salas Gismondi, R., Reguero, M., de Muizon, C., Greenwood, A., Chait, BT., Penkman, K., Collins, M. and MacPhee, RDE., 2019. Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships. Nat Ecol Evol, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0909-z

Charlton, S., Ramsøe, A., Collins, M., Craig, OE., Fischer, R., Alexander, M. and Speller, CF., 2019. New insights into Neolithic milk consumption through proteomic analysis of dental calculus Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00911-7

Kontopoulos, I., Penkman, K., Liritzis, I. and Collins, MJ., 2019. Bone diagenesis in a Mycenaean secondary burial (Kastrouli, Greece) Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00853-0

Jensen, TZT., Niemann, J., Iversen, KH., Fotakis, AK., Gopalakrishnan, S., Vågene, ÅJ., Pedersen, MW., Sinding, M-HS., Ellegaard, MR., Allentoft, ME., Lanigan, LT., Taurozzi, AJ., Nielsen, SH., Dee, MW., Mortensen, MN., Christensen, MC., Sørensen, SA., Collins, MJ., Gilbert, MTP., Sikora, M., Rasmussen, S. and Schroeder, H., 2019. A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch. Nat Commun, v. 10
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13549-9

Radini, A., Tromp, M., Beach, A., Tong, E., Speller, C., McCormick, M., Dudgeon, JV., Collins, MJ., Rühli, F., Kröger, R. and Warinner, C., 2019. Medieval women's early involvement in manuscript production suggested by lapis lazuli identification in dental calculus. Sci Adv, v. 5
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau7126

Kontopoulos, I., Penkman, K., McAllister, GD., Lynnerup, N., Damgaard, PB., Hansen, HB., Allentoft, ME. and Collins, MJ., 2019. Petrous bone diagenesis: a multi-analytical approach Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 518
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.005

McCoy, VE., Gabbott, SE., Penkman, K., Collins, MJ., Presslee, S., Holt, J., Grossman, H., Wang, B., Solórzano Kraemer, MM., Delclòs, X. and Peñalver, E., 2019. Ancient amino acids from fossil feathers in amber. Sci Rep, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42938-9

2018

Kontopoulos, I., Presslee, S., Penkman, K. and Collins, MJ., 2018. Preparation of bone powder for FTIR-ATR analysis: The particle size effect Vibrational Spectroscopy, v. 99
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.vibspec.2018.09.004

O'Connell, TC. and Collins, MJ., 2018. Comment on “Ecological niche of Neanderthals from Spy Cave revealed by nitrogen isotopes of individual amino acids in collagen.” Journal of Human Evolution, v. 117
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.05.006

Brandt, LØ., Haase, K. and Collins, MJ., 2018. Species identification using ZooMS, with reference to the exploitation of animal resources in the medieval town of Odense Danish Journal of Archaeology, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2018.1468154

Hendy, J., Colonese, AC., Franz, I., Fernandes, R., Fischer, R., Orton, D., Lucquin, A., Spindler, L., Anvari, J., Stroud, E., Biehl, PF., Speller, C., Boivin, N., Mackie, M., Jersie-Christensen, RR., Olsen, JV., Collins, MJ., Craig, OE. and Rosenstock, E., 2018. Ancient proteins from ceramic vessels at Çatalhöyük West reveal the hidden cuisine of early farmers. Nat Commun, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06335-6

Daly, KG., Maisano Delser, P., Manica, A. and Many other authors, , 2018. Ancient goat genomes reveal mosaic domestication in the Fertile Crescent Science,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aas9411

Hendy, J., Welker, F., Demarchi, B., Speller, C., Warinner, C. and Collins, MJ., 2018. Author Correction: A guide to ancient protein studies. Nat Ecol Evol, v. 2
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0590-7

Mercader, J., Akeju, T., Brown, M., Bundala, M., Collins, MJ., Copeland, L., Crowther, A., Dunfield, P., Henry, A., Inwood, J., Itambu, M., Kim, J-J., Larter, S., Longo, L., Oldenburg, T., Patalano, R., Sammynaiken, R., Soto, M., Tyler, R. and Xhauflair, H., 2018. Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic and authenticity criteria Facets, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2017-0126

Hendy, J., Warinner, C., Bouwman, A., Collins, MJ., Fiddyment, S., Fischer, R., Hagan, R., Hofman, CA., Holst, M., Chaves, E., Klaus, L., Larson, G., Mackie, M., McGrath, K., Mundorff, AZ., Radini, A., Rao, H., Trachsel, C., Velsko, IM. and Speller, CF., 2018. Proteomic evidence of dietary sources in ancient dental calculus. Proc Biol Sci, v. 285
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0977

von Holstein, ICC., von Tersch, M., Coutu, AN., Penkman, KEH., Makarewicz, CA. and Collins, MJ., 2018. Collagen proteins exchange oxygen with demineralisation and gelatinisation reagents and also with atmospheric moisture. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, v. 32
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8064

Kendall, C., Eriksen, AMH., Kontopoulos, I., Collins, MJ. and Turner-Walker, G., 2018. Diagenesis of archaeological bone and tooth Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v. 491
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.041

2017

Sommer, DVP., Axelsson, KM., Collins, MJ., Fiddyment, S., Bredal‐Jørgensen, J., Simonsen, KP., Lauridsen, CB. and Larsen, R., 2017. Multiple Microanalyses of a Sample from the Vinland Map Archaeometry, v. 59
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12249

Kistler, L., Ware, R., Smith, O., Collins, M. and Allaby, RG., 2017. A new model for ancient DNA decay based on paleogenomic meta-analysis. Nucleic Acids Res, v. 45
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx361

Presslee, S., Wilson, J., Woolley, J., Best, J., Russell, D., Radini, A., Fischer, R., Kessler, B., Boano, R., Collins, M. and Demarchi, B., 2017. The identification of archaeological eggshell using peptide markers STAR Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2018.1424300

Fiddyment, S. and Collins, M., 2017. From field to frame. The contribution of bioarchaeological methods to understanding parchment production Gazette du livre médiéval, v. 63
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3406/galim.2017.2123

Colonese, AC., Hendy, J., Lucquin, A., Speller, CF., Collins, MJ., Carrer, F., Gubler, R., Kühn, M., Fischer, R. and Craig, OE., 2017. New criteria for the molecular identification of cereal grains associated with archaeological artefacts. Sci Rep, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06390-x

Welker, F., Soressi, MA., Roussel, M., van Riemsdijk, I., Hublin, J-J. and Collins, MJ., 2017. Variations in glutamine deamidation for a Châtelperronian bone assemblage as measured by peptide mass fingerprinting of collagen STAR Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2016.1258825

Velsko, IM., Overmyer, KA., Speller, C., Klaus, L., Collins, MJ., Loe, L., Frantz, LAF., Sankaranarayanan, K., Lewis, CM., Martinez, JBR., Chaves, E., Coon, JJ., Larson, G. and Warinner, C., 2017. The dental calculus metabolome in modern and historic samples. Metabolomics, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-017-1270-3

Teasdale, MD., Fiddyment, S., Vnouček, J., Mattiangeli, V., Speller, C., Binois, A., Carver, M., Dand, C., Newfield, TP., Webb, CC., Bradley, DG. and Collins, MJ., 2017. The York Gospels: a 1000-year biological palimpsest. R Soc Open Sci, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170988

Mackie, M., Hendy, J., Lowe, AD., Sperduti, A., Holst, M., Collins, MJ. and Speller, CF., 2017. Preservation of the metaproteome: variability of protein preservation in ancient dental calculus. Sci Technol Archaeol Res, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2017.1361629

2016 (Accepted for publication)

Coutu, AN., Lee-Thorp, J., Collins, MJ. and Lane, PJ., 2016 (Accepted for publication). Mapping the Elephants of the 19th Century East African Ivory Trade with a Multi-Isotope Approach. PLoS One, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163606

2016

Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M., Hunter-Mann, K., Montgomery, J., Müldner, G., McLaughlin, RL., Teasdale, MD., van Rheenen, W., Veldink, JH., van den Berg, LH., Hardiman, O., Carroll, M., Roskams, S., Oxley, J., Morgan, C., Thomas, MG., Barnes, I., McDonnell, C., Collins, MJ. and Bradley, DG., 2016. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10326

Charlton, S., Alexander, M., Collins, M., Milner, N., Mellars, P., O'Connell, TC., Stevens, RE. and Craig, OE., 2016. Finding Britain's last hunter-gatherers: A new biomolecular approach to 'unidentifiable' bone fragments utilising bone collagen JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, v. 73
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.014

von Holstein, ICC., Walton Rogers, P., Craig, OE., Penkman, KEH., Newton, J. and Collins, MJ., 2016. Provenancing Archaeological Wool Textiles from Medieval Northern Europe by Light Stable Isotope Analysis (δ13C, δ15N, δ2H). PLoS One, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162330

Hendy, J., Collins, M., Teoh, KY., Ashford, DA., Thomas-Oates, J., Donoghue, HD., Pap, I., Minnikin, DE., Spigelman, M. and Buckley, M., 2016. The challenge of identifying tuberculosis proteins in archaeological tissues Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 66
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.01.003

Simpson, JP., Penkman, KEH., Demarchi, B., Koon, H., Collins, MJ., Thomas-Oates, J., Shapiro, B., Stark, M. and Wilson, J., 2016. The effects of demineralisation and sampling point variability on the measurement of glutamine deamidation in type I collagen extracted from bone Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 69
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.02.002

Little, A., Elliott, B., Conneller, C., Pomstra, D., Evans, AA., Fitton, LC., Holland, A., Davis, R., Kershaw, R., O'Connor, S., O'Connor, T., Sparrow, T., Wilson, AS., Jordan, P., Collins, MJ., Colonese, AC., Craig, OE., Knight, R., Lucquin, AJA., Taylor, B. and Milner, N., 2016. Technological Analysis of the World's Earliest Shamanic Costume: A Multi-Scalar, Experimental Study of a Red Deer Headdress from the Early Holocene Site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire, UK. PLoS One, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152136

Ziesemer, KA., Mann, AE., Sankaranarayanan, K., Schroeder, H., Ozga, AT., Brandt, BW., Zaura, E., Waters-Rist, A., Hoogland, M., Salazar-García, DC., Aldenderfer, M., Speller, C., Hendy, J., Weston, DA., MacDonald, SJ., Thomas, GH., Collins, MJ., Lewis, CM., Hofman, C. and Warinner, C., 2016. Corrigendum: Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification. Sci Rep, v. 6
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/srep27163

Speller, C., van den Hurk, Y., Charpentier, A., Rodrigues, A., Gardeisen, A., Wilkens, B., McGrath, K., Rowsell, K., Spindler, L., Collins, M. and Hofreiter, M., 2016. Barcoding the largest animals on Earth: ongoing challenges and molecular solutions in the taxonomic identification of ancient cetaceans. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, v. 371
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0332

Grundy, HH., Reece, P., Buckley, M., Solazzo, CM., Dowle, AA., Ashford, D., Charlton, AJ., Wadsley, MK. and Collins, MJ., 2016. A mass spectrometry method for the determination of the species of origin of gelatine in foods and pharmaceutical products. Food Chem, v. 190
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2015.05.054

Kendall, R., Hendy, J., Collins, MJ., Millard, AR. and Gowland, RL., 2016. Poor preservation of antibodies in archaeological human bone and dentine STAR Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, v. 2
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2015.1133117

Welker, F., Hajdinjak, M., Talamo, S., Jaouen, K., Dannemann, M., David, F., Julien, M., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Barnes, I., Brace, S., Kamminga, P., Fischer, R., Kessler, BM., Stewart, JR., Pääbo, S., Collins, MJ. and Hublin, J-J., 2016. Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, v. 113
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605834113

Demarchi, B., Hall, S., Roncal-Herrero, T., Freeman, CL., Woolley, J., Crisp, MK., Wilson, J., Fotakis, A., Fischer, R., Kessler, BM., Rakownikow Jersie-Christensen, R., Olsen, JV., Haile, J., Thomas, J., Marean, CW., Parkington, J., Presslee, S., Lee-Thorp, J., Ditchfield, P., Hamilton, JF., Ward, MW., Wang, CM., Shaw, MD., Harrison, T., Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., MacPhee, RDE., Kwekason, A., Ecker, M., Kolska Horwitz, L., Chazan, M., Kröger, R., Thomas-Oates, J., Harding, JH., Cappellini, E., Penkman, K. and Collins, MJ., 2016. Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time. Elife, v. 5
Doi: http://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.17092

Evans, S., Godino, IBI., Álvarez, M., Rowsell, K., Collier, P., de Goodall, RNP., Mulville, J., Lacrouts, A., Collins, MJ. and Speller, C., 2016. Using combined biomolecular methods to explore whale exploitation and social aggregation in hunter–gatherer–fisher society in Tierra del Fuego Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, v. 6
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.025

2015

Fiddyment, S., Holsinger, B., Ruzzier, C., Devine, A., Binois, A., Albarella, U., Fischer, R., Nichols, E., Curtis, A., Cheese, E., Teasdale, MD., Checkley-Scott, C., Milner, SJ., Rudy, KM., Johnson, EJ., Vnouček, J., Garrison, M., McGrory, S., Bradley, DG. and Collins, MJ., 2015. Animal origin of 13th-century uterine vellum revealed using noninvasive peptide fingerprinting. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, v. 112
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512264112

Warinner, C., Speller, C. and Collins, MJ., 2015. A new era in palaeomicrobiology: prospects for ancient dental calculus as a long-term record of the human oral microbiome. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, v. 370
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0376

Ziesemer, KA., Mann, AE., Sankaranarayanan, K., Schroeder, H., Ozga, AT., Brandt, BW., Zaura, E., Waters-Rist, A., Hoogland, M., Salazar-García, DC., Aldenderfer, M., Speller, C., Hendy, J., Weston, DA., MacDonald, SJ., Thomas, GH., Collins, MJ., Lewis, CM., Hofman, C. and Warinner, C., 2015. Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification. Sci Rep, v. 5
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/srep16498

Peters, J., Lebrasseur, O., Best, J., Miller, H., Fothergill, T., Dobney, K., Thomas, RM., Maltby, M., Sykes, N., Hanotte, O., O'Connor, T., Collins, MJ. and Larson, G., 2015. Questioning new answers regarding Holocene chicken domestication in China. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, v. 112
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503579112

Hofreiter, M., Paijmans, JLA., Goodchild, H., Speller, CF., Barlow, A., Fortes, GG., Thomas, JA., Ludwig, A. and Collins, MJ., 2015. The future of ancient DNA: Technical advances and conceptual shifts. Bioessays, v. 37
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201400160

Rijsdijk, KF., Hume, JP., De Louw, PGB., Meijer, HJM., Janoo, A., De Boer, EJ., Steel, L., De Vos, J., Van Der Sluis, LG., Hooghiemstra, H., Florens, FBV., Baider, C., Vernimmen, TJJ., Baas, P., Van Heteren, AH., Rupear, V., Beebeejaun, G., Grihault, A., Van Der Plicht, J., Besselink, M., Lubeek, JK., Jansen, M., Kluiving, SJ., Hollund, H., Shapiro, B., Collins, M., Buckley, M., Jayasena, RM., Porch, N., Floore, R., Bunnik, F., Biedlingmaier, A., Leavitt, J., Monfette, G., Kimelblatt, A., Randall, A., Floore, P. and Claessens, LPAM., 2015. A review of the dodo and its ecosystem: insights from a vertebrate concentration Lagerstätte in Mauritius Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 35
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2015.1113803

Welker, F., Soressi, M., Rendu, W., Hublin, J-J. and Collins, M., 2015. Using ZooMS to identify fragmentary bone from the Late Middle/Early Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Les Cottés, France Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 54
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.12.010

Welker, F., Collins, MJ., Thomas, JA., Wadsley, M., Brace, S., Cappellini, E., Turvey, ST., Reguero, M., Gelfo, JN., Kramarz, A., Burger, J., Thomas-Oates, J., Ashford, DA., Ashton, PD., Rowsell, K., Porter, DM., Kessler, B., Fischer, R., Baessmann, C., Kaspar, S., Olsen, JV., Kiley, P., Elliott, JA., Kelstrup, CD., Mullin, V., Hofreiter, M., Willerslev, E., Hublin, J-J., Orlando, L., Barnes, I. and MacPhee, RDE., 2015. Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates. Nature, v. 522
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/nature14249

von Holstein, ICC., Font, L., Peacock, EE., Collins, MJ. and Davies, GR., 2015. An assessment of procedures to remove exogenous Sr before 87Sr/86Sr analysis of wet archaeological wool textiles Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 53
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.10.006

Teasdale, MD., van Doorn, NL., Fiddyment, S., Webb, CC., O'Connor, T., Hofreiter, M., Collins, MJ. and Bradley, DG., 2015. Paging through history: parchment as a reservoir of ancient DNA for next generation sequencing. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, v. 370
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0379

2014 (Published online)

2014

Stewart, JRM., Allen, RB., Jones, AKG., Kendall, T., Penkman, KEH., Demarchi, B., O'Connor, T. and Collins, MJ., 2014. Walking on Eggshells: A Study of Egg Use in Anglo‐Scandinavian York Based on Eggshell Identification Using ZooMS International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, v. 24
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2362

von Holstein, ICC., Penkman, KEH., Peacock, EE. and Collins, MJ., 2014. Wet degradation of keratin proteins: linking amino acid, elemental and isotopic composition. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, v. 28
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.6999

Warinner, C., Hendy, J., Speller, C., Cappellini, E., Fischer, R., Trachsel, C., Arneborg, J., Lynnerup, N., Craig, OE., Swallow, DM., Fotakis, A., Christensen, RJ., Olsen, JV., Liebert, A., Montalva, N., Fiddyment, S., Charlton, S., Mackie, M., Canci, A., Bouwman, A., Rühli, F., Gilbert, MTP. and Collins, MJ., 2014. Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus. Sci Rep, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/srep07104

Bates, MR., Wenban-Smith, FF., Bello, SM., Bridgland, DR., Buck, LT., Collins, MJ., Keen, DH., Leary, J., Parfitt, SA., Penkman, K., Rhodes, E., Ryssaert, C. and Whittaker, JE., 2014. Late persistence of the Acheulian in southern Britain in an MIS 8 interstadial: evidence from Harnham, Wiltshire Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 101
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.002

Rasmussen, M., Anzick, SL., Waters, MR., Skoglund, P., DeGiorgio, M., Stafford, TW., Rasmussen, S., Moltke, I., Albrechtsen, A., Doyle, SM., Poznik, GD., Gudmundsdottir, V., Yadav, R., Malaspinas, A-S., White, SS., Allentoft, ME., Cornejo, OE., Tambets, K., Eriksson, A., Heintzman, PD., Karmin, M., Korneliussen, TS., Meltzer, DJ., Pierre, TL., Stenderup, J., Saag, L., Warmuth, VM., Lopes, MC., Malhi, RS., Brunak, S., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Barnes, I., Collins, M., Orlando, L., Balloux, F., Manica, A., Gupta, R., Metspalu, M., Bustamante, CD., Jakobsson, M., Nielsen, R. and Willerslev, E., 2014. The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana. Nature, v. 506
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/nature13025

Vincke, D., Miller, R., Stassart, É., Otte, M., Dardenne, P., Collins, M., Wilkinson, K., Stewart, J., Baeten, V. and Fernández Pierna, JA., 2014. Analysis of collagen preservation in bones recovered in archaeological contexts using NIR Hyperspectral Imaging. Talanta, v. 125
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2014.02.044

Warinner, C., Rodrigues, JFM., Vyas, R., Trachsel, C., Shved, N., Grossmann, J., Radini, A., Hancock, Y., Tito, RY., Fiddyment, S., Speller, C., Hendy, J., Charlton, S., Luder, HU., Salazar-García, DC., Eppler, E., Seiler, R., Hansen, LH., Castruita, JAS., Barkow-Oesterreicher, S., Teoh, KY., Kelstrup, CD., Olsen, JV., Nanni, P., Kawai, T., Willerslev, E., von Mering, C., Lewis, CM., Collins, MJ., Gilbert, MTP., Rühli, F. and Cappellini, E., 2014. Pathogens and host immunity in the ancient human oral cavity. Nat Genet, v. 46
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2906

Meiri, M., Lister, AM., Collins, MJ., Tuross, N., Goebel, T., Blockley, S., Zazula, GD., van Doorn, N., Dale Guthrie, R., Boeskorov, GG., Baryshnikov, GF., Sher, A. and Barnes, I., 2014. Faunal record identifies Bering isthmus conditions as constraint to end-Pleistocene migration to the New World. Proc Biol Sci, v. 281
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2167

Vaiglova, P., Bogaard, A., Collins, M., Cavanagh, W., Mee, C., Renard, J., Lamb, A., Gardeisen, A. and Fraser, R., 2014. An integrated stable isotope study of plants and animals from Kouphovouno, southern Greece: a new look at Neolithic farming Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 42
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.10.023

Ives, JW., Froese, D., Collins, M. and Brock, F., 2014. Radiocarbon and Protein Analyses Indicate an Early Holocene Age for the Osseous Rod from Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada American Antiquity, v. 79
Doi: http://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.79.4.782

Solazzo, C., Rogers, PW., Weber, L., Beaubien, HF., Wilson, J. and Collins, M., 2014. Species identification by peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) in fibre products preserved by association with copper-alloy artefacts Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 49
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.06.009

Colonese, AC., Collins, M., Lucquin, A., Eustace, M., Hancock, Y., de Almeida Rocha Ponzoni, R., Mora, A., Smith, C., Deblasis, P., Figuti, L., Wesolowski, V., Plens, CR., Eggers, S., de Farias, DSE., Gledhill, A. and Craig, OE., 2014. Long-term resilience of late holocene coastal subsistence system in Southeastern South america. PLoS One, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093854

Solazzo, C., Wilson, J., Dyer, JM., Clerens, S., Plowman, JE., von Holstein, I., Walton Rogers, P., Peacock, EE. and Collins, MJ., 2014. Modeling deamidation in sheep α-keratin peptides and application to archeological wool textiles. Anal Chem, v. 86
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1021/ac4026362

von Holstein, ICC., Ashby, SP., van Doorn, NL., Sachs, SM., Buckley, M., Meiri, M., Barnes, I., Brundle, A. and Collins, MJ., 2014. Searching for Scandinavians in pre-Viking Scotland: molecular fingerprinting of Early Medieval combs Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 41
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.07.026

2013

Solazzo, C., Dyer, JM., Clerens, S., Plowman, J., Peacock, EE. and Collins, MJ., 2013. Proteomic evaluation of the biodegradation of wool fabrics in experimental burials International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, v. 80
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2012.11.013

Stewart, JRM., Allen, RB., Jones, AKG., Penkman, KEH. and Collins, MJ., 2013. ZooMS: making eggshell visible in the archaeological record Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.11.007

Demarchi, B., Collins, M., Bergström, E., Dowle, A., Penkman, K., Thomas-Oates, J. and Wilson, J., 2013. New experimental evidence for in-chain amino acid racemization of serine in a model peptide. Anal Chem, v. 85
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1021/ac4005869

Jones, V., Meador, TB., Gogou, A., Migon, C., Penkman, KEH., Collins, MJ. and Repeta, DJ., 2013. Characterisation and dynamics of dissolved organic matter in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea Progress In Oceanography, v. 119
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2013.06.007

Powell, J., Collins, MJ., Cussens, J., MacLeod, N. and Penkman, KEH., 2013. Results from an amino acid racemization inter-laboratory proficiency study; design and performance evaluation Quaternary Geochronology, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2012.11.001

Penkman, KEH., Preece, RC., Bridgland, DR., Keen, DH., Meijer, T., Parfitt, SA., White, TS. and Collins, MJ., 2013. An aminostratigraphy for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula. Quat Sci Rev, v. 61
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.046

von Holstein, ICC., Hamilton, J., Craig, OE., Newton, J. and Collins, MJ., 2013. Comparison of isotopic variability in proteinaceous tissues of a domesticated herbivore: a baseline for zooarchaeological investigation. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, v. 27
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.6725

Tomiak, PJ., Penkman, KEH., Hendy, EJ., Demarchi, B., Murrells, S., Davis, SA., McCullagh, P. and Collins, MJ., 2013. Testing the limitations of artificial protein degradation kinetics using known-age massive Porites coral skeletons Quaternary Geochronology, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2012.07.001

Demarchi, B., Collins, MJ., Tomiak, PJ., Davies, BJ. and Penkman, KEH., 2013. Intra-crystalline protein diagenesis (IcPD) in Patella vulgata. Part II: Breakdown and temperature sensitivity. Quat Geochronol, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2012.08.001

Solazzo, C., Wadsley, M., Dyer, JM., Clerens, S., Collins, MJ. and Plowman, J., 2013. Characterisation of novel α-keratin peptide markers for species identification in keratinous tissues using mass spectrometry. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, v. 27
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.6730

Crisp, M., Demarchi, B., Collins, M., Morgan-Williams, M., Pilgrim, E. and Penkman, K., 2013. Isolation of the intra-crystalline proteins and kinetic studies in Struthio camelus (ostrich) eggshell for amino acid geochronology Quaternary Geochronology, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2012.09.002

2012

Ripper, S., Beamish, M., Bayliss, A., Ramsey, CB., Brown, A., Collins, M., Cooper, NJ., Cook, G., Cook, J., Gouldwell, A., Greig, J., Hatton, J., Marshall, PD., Meadows, J., Monckton, A., Van Der Plicht, H., Smith, D. and Tetlow, E., 2012. Bogs, Bodies and Burnt Mounds: Visits to the Soar Wetlands in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, v. 78
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00027158

Wilson, J., van Doorn, NL. and Collins, MJ., 2012. Assessing the extent of bone degradation using glutamine deamidation in collagen. Anal Chem, v. 84
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1021/ac301333t

Collins, M., 2012. Intra-crystalline ball gazing: the past and future of intra-crystalline proteins in amino acid racemization gechronology Quaternary International, v. 279
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.07.415

Hardy, K., Buckley, S., Collins, MJ., Estalrrich, A., Brothwell, D., Copeland, L., García-Tabernero, A., García-Vargas, S., de la Rasilla, M., Lalueza-Fox, C., Huguet, R., Bastir, M., Santamaría, D., Madella, M., Wilson, J., Cortés, AF. and Rosas, A., 2012. Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus. Naturwissenschaften, v. 99
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-012-0942-0

van Doorn, NL., Wilson, J., Hollund, H., Soressi, M. and Collins, MJ., 2012. Site-specific deamidation of glutamine: a new marker of bone collagen deterioration. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, v. 26
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.6351

Cappellini, E., Jensen, LJ., Szklarczyk, D., Ginolhac, A., da Fonseca, RAR., Stafford, TW., Holen, SR., Collins, MJ., Orlando, L., Willerslev, E., Gilbert, MTP. and Olsen, JV., 2012. Proteomic analysis of a pleistocene mammoth femur reveals more than one hundred ancient bone proteins. J Proteome Res, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1021/pr200721u

Hendy, EJ., Tomiak, PJ., Collins, MJ., Hellstrom, J., Tudhope, AW., Lough, JM. and Penkman, KEH., 2012. Assessing amino acid racemization variability in coral intra-crystalline protein for geochronological applications. Geochim Cosmochim Acta, v. 86
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.02.020

Allentoft, ME., Collins, M., Harker, D., Haile, J., Oskam, CL., Hale, ML., Campos, PF., Samaniego, JA., Gilbert, MTP., Willerslev, E., Zhang, G., Scofield, RP., Holdaway, RN. and Bunce, M., 2012. The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils. Proc Biol Sci, v. 279
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1745

McGrory, S., Svensson, EM., Götherström, A., Mulville, J., Powell, AJ., Collins, MJ. and O'Connor, TP., 2012. A novel method for integrated age and sex determination from archaeological cattle mandibles Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.05.021

Hollund, HI., Jans, MME., Collins, MJ., Kars, H., Joosten, I. and Kars, SM., 2012. What Happened Here? Bone Histology as a Tool in Decoding the Postmortem Histories of Archaeological Bone from Castricum, The Netherlands International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, v. 22
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/oa.1273

2011 (Published online)

Buckley, M. and Collins, MJ., 2011 (Published online). Collagen survival and its use for species identification in Holocene-lower Pleistocene bone fragments from British archaeological and paleontological sites Antiqua, v. 1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4081/antiqua.2011.e1

2011

Penkman, KEH., Preece, RC., Bridgland, DR., Keen, DH., Meijer, T., Parfitt, SA., White, TS. and Collins, MJ., 2011. A chronological framework for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula. Nature, v. 476
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/nature10305

Penkman, KEH., Preece, RC., Bridgland, DR., Keen, DH., Meijer, T., Parfitt, SA., White, TS. and Collins, MJ., 2011. A chronological framework for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula Nature, v. 476
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/nature10305

van Doorn, NL., Hollund, H. and Collins, MJ., 2011. A novel and non-destructive approach for ZooMS analysis: ammonium bicarbonate buffer extraction Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0067-y

O’Connor, S., Ali, E., Al-Sabah, S., Anwar, D., Bergström, E., Brown, KA., Buckberry, J., Buckley, S., Collins, M., Denton, J., Dorling, KM., Dowle, A., Duffey, P., Edwards, HGM., Faria, EC., Gardner, P., Gledhill, A., Heaton, K., Heron, C., Janaway, R., Keely, BJ., King, D., Masinton, A., Penkman, K., Petzold, A., Pickering, MD., Rumsby, M., Schutkowski, H., Shackleton, KA., Thomas, J., Thomas-Oates, J., Usai, M-R., Wilson, AS. and O’Connor, T., 2011. Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 38
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.030

Solazzo, C., Heald, S., Ballard, MW., Ashford, DA., DePriest, PT., Koestler, RJ. and Collins, MJ., 2011. Proteomics and Coast Salish blankets: a tale of shaggy dogs? Antiquity, v. 85
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00062141

CHAMBERLAIN, P., DREWELLO, R., KORN, L., BAUER, W., GOUGH, T., AL‐FOUZAN, A., COLLINS, M., VAN DOORN, N., CRAIG, O. and HERON, C., 2011. CONSTRUCTION OF THE KHOJA ZAYNUDDIN MOSQUE: USE OF ANIMAL GLUE MODIFIED WITH URINE* Archaeometry, v. 53
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2010.00577.x

Richter, KK., Wilson, J., Jones, AKG., Buckley, M., van Doorn, N. and Collins, MJ., 2011. Fish ’n chips: ZooMS peptide mass fingerprinting in a 96 well plate format to identify fish bone fragments Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 38
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.014

2010

Ehrlich, H., Deutzmann, R., Brunner, E., Cappellini, E., Koon, H., Solazzo, C., Yang, Y., Ashford, D., Thomas-Oates, J., Lubeck, M., Baessmann, C., Langrock, T., Hoffmann, R., Wörheide, G., Reitner, J., Simon, P., Tsurkan, M., Ereskovsky, AV., Kurek, D., Bazhenov, VV., Hunoldt, S., Mertig, M., Vyalikh, DV., Molodtsov, SL., Kummer, K., Worch, H., Smetacek, V. and Collins, MJ., 2010. Mineralization of the metre-long biosilica structures of glass sponges is templated on hydroxylated collagen. Nat Chem, v. 2
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.899

Buckley, M., Kansa, SW., Howard, S., Campbell, S., Thomas-Oates, J. and Collins, M., 2010. Distinguishing between archaeological sheep and goat bones using a single collagen peptide Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 37
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.08.020

Buckley, M., Collins, M., Thomas‐Oates, J. and Wilson, JC., 2010. Erratum: Species identification by analysis of bone collagen using matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionisation time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, v. 24
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.4745

Cappellini, E., Gilbert, MTP., Geuna, F., Fiorentino, G., Hall, A., Thomas-Oates, J., Ashton, PD., Ashford, DA., Arthur, P., Campos, PF., Kool, J., Willerslev, E. and Collins, MJ., 2010. A multidisciplinary study of archaeological grape seeds. Naturwissenschaften, v. 97
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-009-0629-3

Campos, PF., Sher, A., Mead, JI., Tikhonov, A., Buckley, M., Collins, M., Willerslev, E. and Gilbert, MTP., 2010. Clarification of the taxonomic relationship of the extant and extinct ovibovids, Ovibos, Praeovibos, Euceratherium and Bootherium Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 29
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.006

Wilson, J., Hardy, K., Allen, R., Copeland, L., Wrangham, R. and Collins, M., 2010. Automated classification of starch granules using supervised pattern recognition of morphological properties Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 37
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.10.024

Griffin, RC., Penkman, KEH., Moody, H. and Collins, MJ., 2010. The impact of random natural variability on aspartic acid racemization ratios in enamel from different types of human teeth. Forensic Sci Int, v. 200
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.04.005

Collins, M., Buckley, M., Grundy, HH., Thomas-Oates, J., Wilson, J. and Van Doom, N., 2010. Zoo MS: The collagen barcode and fingerprints Spectroscopy Europe, v. 22

2009

Dybowska, A., Manning, DAC., Collins, MJ., Wess, T., Woodgate, S. and Valsami-Jones, E., 2009. An evaluation of the reactivity of synthetic and natural apatites in the presence of aqueous metals. Sci Total Environ, v. 407
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.12.053

Dobberstein, RC., Collins, MJ., Craig, OE., Taylor, G., Penkman, KEH. and Ritz-Timme, S., 2009. Archaeological collagen: Why worry about collagen diagenesis? Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-009-0002-7

Collins, MJ., Penkman, KEH., Rohland, N., Shapiro, B., Dobberstein, RC., Ritz-Timme, S. and Hofreiter, M., 2009. Is amino acid racemization a useful tool for screening for ancient DNA in bone? Proc Biol Sci, v. 276
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0563

Rijsdijk, KF., Hume, JP., Bunnik, F., Florens, FBV., Baider, C., Shapiro, B., van der Plicht, J., Janoo, A., Griffiths, O., van den Hoek Ostende, LW., Cremer, H., Vernimmen, T., De Louw, PGB., Bholah, A., Saumtally, S., Porch, N., Haile, J., Buckley, M., Collins, M. and Gittenberger, E., 2009. Mid-Holocene vertebrate bone Concentration-Lagerstätte on oceanic island Mauritius provides a window into the ecosystem of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 28
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.018

Buckley, M., Collins, M., Thomas-Oates, J. and Wilson, JC., 2009. Species identification by analysis of bone collagen using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, v. 23
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.4316

Heaton, K., Solazzo, C., Collins, MJ., Thomas-Oates, J. and Bergström, ET., 2009. Towards the application of desorption electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) to the analysis of ancient proteins from artefacts Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.05.016

King, GA., Gilbert, MTP., Willerslev, E., Collins, MJ. and Kenward, H., 2009. Recovery of DNA from archaeological insect remains: first results, problems and potential Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.01.006

Ottoni, C., Koon, HEC., Collins, MJ., Penkman, KEH., Rickards, O. and Craig, OE., 2009. Preservation of ancient DNA in thermally damaged archaeological bone. Naturwissenschaften, v. 96
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-008-0478-5

Hardy, K., Blakeney, T., Copeland, L., Kirkham, J., Wrangham, R. and Collins, M., 2009. Starch granules, dental calculus and new perspectives on ancient diet Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.09.015

Griffin, RC., Chamberlain, AT., Hotz, G., Penkman, KEH. and Collins, MJ., 2009. Age estimation of archaeological remains using amino acid racemization in dental enamel: a comparison of morphological, biochemical, and known ages-at-death. Am J Phys Anthropol, v. 140
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21058

2008

Penkman, KEH., Kaufman, DS., Maddy, D. and Collins, MJ., 2008. Closed-system behaviour of the intra-crystalline fraction of amino acids in mollusc shells. Quat Geochronol, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2007.07.001

Griffin, RC., Moody, H., Penkman, KEH. and Collins, MJ., 2008. The application of amino acid racemization in the acid soluble fraction of enamel to the estimation of the age of human teeth. Forensic Sci Int, v. 175
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.04.226

Covington, AD., Song, L., Suparno, O., Koon, HEC. and Collins, MJ., 2008. Link-lock: An explanation of the chemical stabilisation of collagen JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF LEATHER TECHNOLOGISTS AND CHEMISTS, v. 92

Buckley, M., Walker, A., Ho, SYW., Yang, Y., Smith, C., Ashton, P., Oates, JT., Cappellini, E., Koon, H., Penkman, K., Elsworth, B., Ashford, D., Solazzo, C., Andrews, P., Strahler, J., Shapiro, B., Ostrom, P., Gandhi, H., Miller, W., Raney, B., Zylber, MI., Gilbert, MTP., Prigodich, RV., Ryan, M., Rijsdijk, KF., Janoo, A. and Collins, MJ., 2008. Comment on "Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry". Science, v. 319
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1147046

Pevzner, PA., Kim, S. and Ng, J., 2008. Comment on "Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry". Science, v. 321
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1155006

Buckley, M., Collins, M. and Thomas-Oates, J., 2008. A method of isolating the collagen (I) alpha2 chain carboxytelopeptide for species identification in bone fragments. Anal Biochem, v. 374
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2007.12.002

Buckley, M., Anderung, C., Penkman, K., Raney, BJ., Götherström, A., Thomas-Oates, J. and Collins, MJ., 2008. Comparing the survival of osteocalcin and mtDNA in archaeological bone from four European sites Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 35
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.11.022

Koon, HEC., Loreille, OM., Covington, AD., Christensen, AF., Parsons, TJ. and Collins, MJ., 2008. Diagnosing post-mortem treatments which inhibit DNA amplification from US MIAs buried at the Punchbowl. Forensic Sci Int, v. 178
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2008.03.015

Blyth, AJ., Baker, A., Collins, MJ., Penkman, KEH., Gilmour, MA., Moss, JS., Genty, D. and Drysdale, RN., 2008. Molecular organic matter in speleothems and its potential as an environmental proxy Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 27
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.02.002

2007

Smith, CI., Nielsen-Marsh, CM., Jans, MME. and Collins, MJ., 2007. Bone diagenesis in the European Holocene I: patterns and mechanisms Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 34
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.11.006

Nielsen-Marsh, CM., Smith, CI., Jans, MME., Nord, A., Kars, H. and Collins, MJ., 2007. Bone diagenesis in the European Holocene II: taphonomic and environmental considerations Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 34
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.11.012

Willerslev, E., Cappellini, E., Boomsma, W., Nielsen, R., Hebsgaard, MB., Brand, TB., Hofreiter, M., Bunce, M., Poinar, HN., Dahl-Jensen, D., Johnsen, S., Steffensen, JP., Bennike, O., Schwenninger, J-L., Nathan, R., Armitage, S., de Hoog, C-J., Alfimov, V., Christl, M., Beer, J., Muscheler, R., Barker, J., Sharp, M., Penkman, KEH., Haile, J., Taberlet, P., Gilbert, MTP., Casoli, A., Campani, E. and Collins, MJ., 2007. Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland. Science, v. 317
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1141758

Gilbert, MTP., Tomsho, LP., Rendulic, S., Packard, M., Drautz, DI., Sher, A., Tikhonov, A., Dalén, L., Kuznetsova, T., Kosintsev, P., Campos, PF., Higham, T., Collins, MJ., Wilson, AS., Shidlovskiy, F., Buigues, B., Ericson, PGP., Germonpré, M., Götherström, A., Iacumin, P., Nikolaev, V., Nowak-Kemp, M., Willerslev, E., Knight, JR., Irzyk, GP., Perbost, CS., Fredrikson, KM., Harkins, TT., Sheridan, S., Miller, W. and Schuster, SC., 2007. Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts. Science, v. 317
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1146971

Penkman, KEH., Preece, RC., Keen, DH., Maddy, D., Schreve, DC. and Collins, MJ., 2007. Testing the aminostratigraphy of fluvial archives: the evidence from intra-crystalline proteins within freshwater shells Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 26
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.034

Etok, SE., Valsami-Jones, E., Wess, TJ., Hiller, JC., Maxwell, CA., Rogers, KD., Manning, DAC., White, ML., Lopez-Capel, E., Collins, MJ., Buckley, M., Penkman, KEH. and Woodgate, SL., 2007. Structural and chemical changes of thermally treated bone apatite Journal of Materials Science, v. 42
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-007-1993-z

2006

Dürrwächter, C., Craig, OE., Collins, MJ., Burger, J. and Alt, KW., 2006. Beyond the grave: variability in Neolithic diets in Southern Germany? Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 33
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2005.06.009

Holmes, KM., Brown, KAR., Oates, WP. and Collins, MJ., 2006. Assessing the distribution of Asian Palaeolithic sites: a predictive model of collagen degradation Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 33
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2005.11.010

Gilbert, MTP., Hansen, AJ., Willerslev, E., Turner‐Walker, G. and Collins, M., 2006. Insights into the processes behind the contamination of degraded human teeth and bone samples with exogenous sources of DNA International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/oa.832

2005

Pearson, MP., Chamberlain, A., Craig, O., Marshall, P., Mulville, J., Smith, H., Chenery, C., Collins, M., Cook, G., Craig, G., Evans, J., Hiller, J., Montgomery, J., Schwenninger, J-L., Taylor, G. and Wess, T., 2005. Evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain Antiquity, v. 79
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00114486

Craig, OE., Chapman, J., Heron, C., Willis, LH., Bartosiewicz, L., Taylor, G., Whittle, A. and Collins, M., 2005. Did the first farmers of central and eastern Europe produce dairy foods? Antiquity, v. 79
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00115017

Gilbert, MTP., Barnes, I., Collins, MJ., Smith, C., Eklund, J., Goudsmit, J., Poinar, H. and Cooper, A., 2005. Long-term survival of ancient DNA in Egypt: response to Zink and Nerlich (2003). Am J Phys Anthropol, v. 128
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20045

Smith, CI., Craig, OE., Prigodich, RV., Nielsen-Marsh, CM., Jans, MME., Vermeer, C. and Collins, MJ., 2005. Diagenesis and survival of osteocalcin in archaeological bone Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 32
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2004.07.003

Holmes, KM., Brown, KAR., Oates, WP. and Collins, MJ., 2005. Assessing the distribution of African Palaeolithic sites: a predictive model of collagen degradation Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 32
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2004.06.002

Jones, V., Collins, MJ., Penkman, KEH., Jaffé, R. and Wolff, GA., 2005. An assessment of the microbial contribution to aquatic dissolved organic nitrogen using amino acid enantiomeric ratios Organic Geochemistry, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2004.11.008

Craig, OE., Taylor, G., Mulville, J., Collins, MJ. and Pearson, MP., 2005. The identification of prehistoric dairying activities in the Western Isles of Scotland: an integrated biomolecular approach Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 32
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2004.06.009

Parfitt, SA., Barendregt, RW., Breda, M., Candy, I., Collins, MJ., Coope, GR., Durbidge, P., Field, MH., Lee, JR., Lister, AM., Mutch, R., Penkman, KEH., Preece, RC., Rose, J., Stringer, CB., Symmons, R., Whittaker, JE., Wymer, JJ. and Stuart, AJ., 2005. The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe NATURE, v. 438
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/Nature04227

Gilbert, MTP., Rudbeck, L., Willerslev, E., Hansen, AJ., Smith, C., Penkman, KEH., Prangenberg, K., Nielsen-Marsh, CM., Jans, ME., Arthur, P., Lynnerup, N., Turner-Walker, G., Biddle, M., Kjølbye-Biddle, B. and Collins, MJ., 2005. Biochemical and physical correlates of DNA contamination in archaeological human bones and teeth excavated at Matera, Italy Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 32
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2004.12.008

Nielsen-Marsh, CM., Richards, MP., Hauschka, PV., Thomas-Oates, JE., Trinkaus, E., Pettitt, PB., Karavanic, I., Poinar, H. and Collins, MJ., 2005. Osteocalcin protein sequences of Neanderthals and modern primates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, v. 102
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500450102

2004

Jans, MME., Nielsen-Marsh, CM., Smith, CI., Collins, MJ. and Kars, H., 2004. Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 31
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2003.07.007

Hiller, JC., Collins, MJ., Chamberlain, AT. and Wess, TJ., 2004. Small-angle X-ray scattering: a high-throughput technique for investigating archaeological bone preservation Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 31
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2004.02.013

Burger, J., Rosendahl, W., Loreille, O., Hemmer, H., Eriksson, T., Götherström, A., Hiller, J., Collins, MJ., Wess, T. and Alt, KW., 2004. Molecular phylogeny of the extinct cave lion Panthera leo spelaea. Mol Phylogenet Evol, v. 30
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2003.07.020

2003 (Published online)

Xie, S., 2003 (Published online). Lipid distribution in a subtropical southern China stalagmite as a record of soil ecosystem response to paleoclimate change Quaternary Research,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.qres.2003.07.010

2003

Koon, HEC., Nicholson, RA. and Collins, MJ., 2003. A practical approach to the identification of low temperature heated bone using TEM Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 30
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/s0305-4403(03)00034-7

Xie, S., Yi, Y., Huang, J., Hu, C., Cai, Y., Collins, M. and Baker, A., 2003. Lipid distribution in a subtropical southern China stalagmite as a record of soil ecosystem response to paleoclimate change Quaternary Research, v. 60
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2003.07.010

Craig, OE., Chapman, J., Figler, A., Patay, P., Taylor, G. and Collins, MJ., 2003. ‘Milk Jugs’ and Other Myths of the Copper Age of Central Europe’ European Journal of Archaeology, v. 6
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1179/eja.2003.6.3.251

Smith, CI., Chamberlain, AT., Riley, MS., Stringer, C. and Collins, MJ., 2003. The thermal history of human fossils and the likelihood of successful DNA amplification. J Hum Evol, v. 45
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/s0047-2484(03)00106-4

Ritz-Timme, S., Laumeier, I. and Collins, M., 2003. Age estimation based on aspartic acid racemization in elastin from the yellow ligaments. Int J Legal Med, v. 117
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-002-0355-2

Collins, MJ., Walton, D., Curry, GB., Riley, MS., Von Wallmenich, TN., Savage, NM., Muyzer, G. and Westbroek, P., 2003. Long-term trends in the survival of immunological epitopes entombed in fossil brachiopod skeletons Organic Geochemistry, v. 34
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/s0146-6380(02)00186-9

2002

Craig, OE. and Collins, MJ., 2002. The Removal of Protein from Mineral Surfaces: Implications for Residue Analysis of Archaeological Materials Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 29
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.2001.0757

Roberts, SJ., Smith, CI., Millard, A. and Collins, MJ., 2002. The taphonomy of cooked bone: characterizing boiling and its physico–chemical effects Archaeometry, v. 44
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4754.t01-1-00080

Turner‐Walker, G., Nielsen‐Marsh, CM., Syversen, U., Kars, H. and Collins, MJ., 2002. Sub‐micron spongiform porosity is the major ultra‐structural alteration occurring in archaeological bone International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/oa.642

Collins, MJ., Nielsen–Marsh, CM., Hiller, J., Smith, CI., Roberts, JP., Prigodich, RV., Wess, TJ., Csapò, J., Millard, AR. and Turner–Walker, G., 2002. The survival of organic matter in bone: a review Archaeometry, v. 44
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4754.t01-1-00071

Smith, CI., Nielsen–Marsh, CM., Jans, MME., Arthur, P., Nord, AG. and Collins, MJ., 2002. The strange case of Apigliano: early ‘fossilization’ of medieval bone in southern Italy Archaeometry, v. 44
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4754.t01-1-00073

Wess, T., Alberts, I., Hiller, J., Drakopoulos, M., Chamberlain, AT. and Collins, M., 2002. Microfocus small angle X-ray scattering reveals structural features in archaeological bone samples: detection of changes in bone mineral habit and size. Calcif Tissue Int, v. 70
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s002230020045

2001

Smith, CI., Chamberlain, AT., Riley, MS., Cooper, A., Stringer, CB. and Collins, MJ., 2001. Neanderthal DNA. Not just old but old and cold? Nature, v. 410
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/35071177

Wess, TJ., Drakopoulos, M., Snigirev, A., Wouters, J., Paris, O., Fratzl, P., Collins, M., Hillier, J. and Nielsen, K., 2001. The Use of Small‐Angle X‐Ray Diffraction Studies for the Analysis of Structural Features in Archaeological Samples Archaeometry, v. 43
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4754.00007

2000

Ritz-Timme, S., Cattaneo, C., Collins, MJ., Waite, ER., Schütz, HW., Kaatsch, HJ. and Borrman, HI., 2000. Age estimation: the state of the art in relation to the specific demands of forensic practise. Int J Legal Med, v. 113
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s004140050283

Craig, O., Mulville, J., Pearson, MP., Sokol, R., Gelsthorpe, K., Stacey, R. and Collins, M., 2000. Detecting milk proteins in ancient pots. Nature, v. 408
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/35042684

Wess, T., Alberts, I., Cameron, G., Laurie, C., Orgel, J., Hiller, J., Marsh, CN., Balthazar, VDLC., Drakopoulos, M., Pollard, AM. and Collins, M., 2000. Small angle X-ray scattering reveals changes of bone mineral habit and size in archaeological bone samples Fibre Diffraction Review, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1382/s20000936

Ritz-Timme, S., Rochholz, G., Schütz, HW., Collins, MJ., Waite, ER., Cattaneo, C. and Kaatsch, HJ., 2000. Quality assurance in age estimation based on aspartic acid racemisation. Int J Legal Med, v. 114
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s004140000159

Craig, OE. and Collins, MJ., 2000. An improved method for the immunological detection of mineral bound protein using hydrofluoric acid and direct capture. J Immunol Methods, v. 236
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-1759(99)00242-2

Nielsen-Marsh, CM., Hedges, REM., Mann, T. and Collins, MJ., 2000. A preliminary investigation of the application of differential scanning calorimetry to the study of collagen degradation in archaeological bone Thermochimica Acta, v. 365
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/s0040-6031(00)00620-1

Cattaneo, C., Ritz-Timme, S., Schutz, HW., Collins, M., Waite, E., Boormann, H., Grandi, M. and Kaatsch, HJ., 2000. Unidentified cadavers and human remains in the EU: an unknown issue. Int J Legal Med, v. 113

1999

Waite, ER., Collins, MJ., Ritz-Timme, S., Schutz, HW., Cattaneo, C. and Borrman, HI., 1999. A review of the methodological aspects of aspartic acid racemization analysis for use in forensic science. Forensic Sci Int, v. 103
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/s0379-0738(99)00081-x

Ritz-Timme, S., Schütz, HW., Waite, ER. and Collins, MJ., 1999. "Improvement" of age estimation using amino acid racemization in a case of pink teeth. Am J Forensic Med Pathol, v. 20
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1097/00000433-199906000-00022

Menderes, O., Covington, AD., Waite, ER. and Collins, MJ., 1999. The mechanism and effects of collagen amide group hydrolysis during liming JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF LEATHER TECHNOLOGISTS AND CHEMISTS, v. 83

Collins, MJ., Waite, ER. and van Duin, AC., 1999. Predicting protein decomposition: the case of aspartic-acid racemization kinetics. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, v. 354
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1999.0359

Ritz-Timme, S., Schütz, HW. and Collins, MJ., 1999. Commentary on Ohtani S, Matsushima Y, Kobayashi Y, Kishi K. Evaluation of Aspartic Acid Racemization Ratios in the Human Femur for Age Estimation. J Forensic Sci 1998;54(5):949–953 Journal of Forensic Sciences, v. 44
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1520/jfs14572j

Waite, ER., Collins, MJ. and van Duin, AC., 1999. Hydroxyproline interference during the gas chromatographic analysis of D/L aspartic acid in human dentine. Int J Legal Med, v. 112
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s004140050214

Ritz-Timme, S., Schütz, HW. and Collins, MJ., 1999. Evaluation of aspartic acid racemization ratios in the human femur for age estimation. J Forensic Sci, v. 44

1998

Ohtani, S., Matsushima, Y., Kobayashi, Y. and Kishi, K., 1998. Evaluation of aspartic acid racemization ratios in the human femur for age estimation. J Forensic Sci, v. 43

Waite, ER. and Collins, MJ., 1998. Response to paper by Ohtani S, Yamada Y, Yamamoto I. Age estimation from racemization rate using heated teeth. J Forensic Odontostomatol, v. 16

1997

Waite, ER., Child, AM., Craig, OE., Collins, MJ., Gelsthorpe, K. and Brown, TA., 1997. A preliminary investigation of DNA stability in bone during artificial diagenesis BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE, v. 168

Millard, A. and Collins, M., 1997. Edison s Miracle of Light. Prod. by Matthew Collins. Elevator Pictures, 1995. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Pl., Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Journal of American History, v. 84
Doi: http://doi.org/10.2307/2953253

1995

Sykes, GA., Collins, MJ. and Walton, DI., 1995. The significance of a geochemically isolated intracrystalline organic fraction within biominerals Organic Geochemistry, v. 23
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6380(95)00086-0

Collins, MJ., Riley, MS., Child, AM. and Turner-Walker, G., 1995. A Basic Mathematical Simulation of the Chemical Degradation of Ancient Collagen Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 22
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.1995.0019

Collins, MJ., Bishop, AN. and Farrimond, P., 1995. Sorption by mineral surfaces: Rebirth of the classical condensation pathway for kerogen formation? Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 59
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(95)00114-f

1994

ENDO, K., CURRY, GB., QUINN, R., COLLINS, MJ., MUYZER, G. and WESTBROEK, P., 1994. REINTERPRETATION OF TEREBRATULIDE PHYLOGENY BASED ON IMMUNOLOGICAL DATA PALAEONTOLOGY, v. 37

1993

1992

Mishler, DA. and Collins, M., 1992. Barnum's Big Top. Prod. by Matthew Collins. Elevator Pictures, 1992. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Journal of American History, v. 79
Doi: http://doi.org/10.2307/2080965

Collins, MJ., Westbroek, P., Muyzer, G. and de Leeuw, JW., 1992. Experimental evidence for condensation reactions between sugars and proteins in carbonate skeletons Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 56
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(92)90223-6

1991

Stearns, PN. and Collins, M., 1991. Insanity on Trial. Prod. by Matthew Collins. Varied Directions, 1990. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Journal of American History, v. 78
Doi: http://doi.org/10.2307/2078964

Collins, MJ., Muyzer, G., Westbroek, P., Curry, GB., Sandberg, PA., Xu, SJ., Quinn, R. and Mackinnon, D., 1991. Preservation of fossil biopolymeric structures: Conclusive immunological evidence Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 55
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(91)90101-a

CURRY, GB., QUINN, R., COLLINS, MJ., ENDO, K., EWING, S., MUYZER, G. and WESTBROEK, P., 1991. Immunological responses from brachiopod skeletal macromolecules; a new technique for assessing taxonomic relationships using shells Lethaia, v. 24
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1991.tb01493.x

COLLINS, M., CURRY, GB., MUYZER, G., QUINN, R., XU, SJ., WESTBROEK, P. and EWING, S., 1991. IMMUNOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE TEREBRATULID BRACHIOPODS PALAEONTOLOGY, v. 34

1988

Collins, MJ., Currys, GB., Quinn, R., Muyzer, G., Zomerdijk, T. and Westbroek, P., 1988. Sero‐taxonomy of skeletal macromolecules in living Terebratulid brachiopods Historical Biology, v. 1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/08912968809386475

1984

Collins, MJ., Jones, DA. and Clayton, DA., 1984. Redescription of Uca Sindensis (Alcock, 1900) (Brachyura: Ocypodidae) with Notes on the Ecology of a Population from Kuwait Journal of Crustacean Biology, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.2307/1548029

Other publications

2022

Ramsøe, A., Crispin, M., Mackie, M., McGrath, K., Fischer, R., Demarchi, B., Collins, MJ., Hendy, J. and Speller, C., 2022. Author Correction: Assessing the degradation of ancient milk proteins through site-specific deamidation patterns. Sci Rep, v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06151-5

Conference proceedings

2021

Sand, KK., Freeman, C., Collins, M. and Dieudonné, L., 2021. Surface charge and topography of minerals as a driver for DNA storage and preservation in sediments
Doi: http://doi.org/10.7185/gold2021.7032

2019

Sistiaga, A., Poyet, M., Groussin, M., Collins, M. and Summons, RE., 2019. Analysis of Faecal Substrates Sheds Light into Coprostanol Origin, Preservation and Diagenesis
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201902866

2017

McCoy, VE., Penkman, K., Penkman, K., Preslee, S., Preslee, S., Collins, M., Collins, M., Gabbott, SE. and Gabbott, SE., 2017. EXPERIMENTAL DEGRADATION OF CHICKEN FEATHER PROTEINS IN RESIN Abstracts with programs (Geological Society of America),
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2017am-298940

2015

Warinner, C., Hendy, J., Speller, C., Cappellini, E., Fischer, R., Trachsel, C., Arneborg, J., Lynnerup, N., Craig, O., Swallow, DM., Fotakis, A., Christensen, RJ., Olsen, J., Liebert, A., Montalva, N., Fiddyment, S., Mackie, M., Canci, A., Bouwman, A., Ruhli, F., Gilbert, MTP. and Collins, MJ., 2015. Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 156

2010

Moro, ML., Collins, MJ. and Cappellini, E., 2010. Alzheimer's disease and amyloid beta-peptide deposition in the brain: a matter of 'aging'? Biochem Soc Trans, v. 38
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1042/BST0380539

2008

Griffin, RC., Moody, H., Penkman, KEH., Fagan, MJ., Curtis, N. and Collins, MJ., 2008. A new approach to amino acid racemization in enamel: testing of a less destructive sampling methodology. J Forensic Sci, v. 53
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00753.x

2006

Griffin, RC., Moody, H. and Collins, MJ., 2006. An investigation of amino acid racemization as a method for estimation of age-at-death of skeletal remains. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY,

2005

Valsami-Jones, É., Wilson, J., Cressey, G., Collins, M., Manning, D., Wess, T., Younger, P. and Woodgate, S., 2005. Understanding biomineralisation of bone apatite for applications to toxic metal remediation:: Preliminary results GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, v. 69

2003

Nielsen-Marsh, CM., Ostrom, PH., Gandhi, H., Shapiro, B., Cooper, A., Hauschka, PV., Kahlke, RD. and Collins, MJ., 2003. Ancient protein sequences: A new direction for molecular palaeontology. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, v. 225

Ostrom, P., Nielsen-Marsh, CM., Gandhi, H., Collins, MJ., Storer, J., Hauschka, PV. and McNulty, T., 2003. New approaches for understanding ancient proteins. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, v. 225

2001

Craig, OE., Stacey, RJ. and Collins, MJ., 2001. The ancient potsherd: A unique environment for protein survival? ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES '97, PROCEEDINGS, v. S939

Hiller, J., Wess, TJ., Collins, MJ. and Chamberlain, AT., 2001. Preservation of skeletal remains in European Pleistocene caves: changes to the protein and mineral components of fossil bone. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY,

2000

van Duin, ACT., Collins, MJ., Jones, M., Farmer, JG. and Graham, MC., 2000. Simulated partitioning of polyaromatic hydrocarbons between mineral surfaces and humic layers in the water phase. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, v. 219

1998

Book chapters

2020

Vnouček, J., Fiddyment, S., Quandt, A., Rabitsch, S., Collins, M. and Hofmann, C., 2020. The parchment of the Vienna Genesis: characteristics and manufacture
Doi: http://doi.org/10.7767/9783205210580.35

2019

2018

Knight, B., Milner, N., O’Connor, T., Elliott, B., Robson, HK., Buckley, M., Witkowski, P., Charlton, S., Craig, O. and Collins, M., 2018. Faunal Remains: Results by Species
Doi: http://doi.org/10.22599/book2.i

2017 (Published online)

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2007

2004

Csapó, J., Collins, M., Csapó-Kiss, Z., Varga-Visi, É., Pohn, G. and Csapó, J., 2004. Chapter 6 Use of Amino Acids and Amino Acid Racemization for Age Determination in Archaeometry
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/b978-008044396-6/50008-3

2001

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching

Current students:

  • Carla de Soto Parchment decay and conservation (with Devro)
  • Erin M Keenan Early ZooMS of N. American Fauna (Texas)
  • Tuuli Kasso (Copenhagen)
  • Laura Vinas (Copenhaggen)
  • Bharath Nair (Copenhagen)
  • Bia Fonseca (Copenhagen, with Karina Sand)
  • Liam Llanigan (Copenhagen, with Hannes Schroeder and Tom Gilbert
  • Ruairidh Macleod (Cambridge, MPhil)
  • Yuan Yue (Cambridge)
  • Miranda Evan (Cambridge, with Tamsin O'Connell, and Jessie Hendy, York)
  • Tianyi Wang (Cambridge with Piers Mitchell)
  • Sophie Rabinow (Cambridge  with Piers Mitchell) 

Past students:

  • Andrew Spooner 1992 Industry Environment
  • Ben Stern 1993 Senior Lecturer Bradford
  • Emman Waite 1997 Industry Bioscience
  • Dave Robertson 1998 Industry Petroleum
  • Oliver Craig 1998 Professor, York
  • Colin Smith 2000 Senior Lecturer, LaTrobe, University
  • Jen Hiller 2001   Industry
  • Miranda Jans 2001 Forensics (US Military)
  • Kirsty Penkman 2001 Professor York
  • Rebecca Griffin 2002 Administration Canberra
  • Hannah Koon 2003 Senior Lecturer Bradford
  • Simon McGrory 2006 Project Officer (Heritage)
  • Rose Drew 2004 Osteoarchaeology
  • Mike Buckley 2010 Royal Society Research Professor, Manchester
  • Nienke Van Doorn 2012 Industry York Archaeological Trust
  • Isabella von Holstein 2012 PDRA, Amsterdam
  • Jo Powell 2013 Industry
  • Marc Wadsley 2013 Bioinformatics NHS
  • Yang Yue 2013 Industry Environment
  • Frido Welker 2017 Assistant Professor, Copenhagen
  • Jessica Hendy 2017 Lecturer, York
  • Sean Doherty, 2016, Postdoc Exeter
  • Jiri Vnoucek, Postdoc B2C, Conservator Royal Library
  • Keri Rowsell,Research Administration (UCL)
  • Ioannis Kontopoulos, Postdoc (Copenhagen)
  • Theis Jensen, Postdoc (Copenhagen)
  • Abigail Lowe, Postdoc (Copenhagen)
  • Talari Gopai, PhD (UCD)
Research supervision

I currently supervise students investigating in a range of topics related to the use of proteins to address archaeological research questions from evolution, to diet, disease, demography and chronology.  I am interested in supervising students with a passion to work across disciplines who wish to study for an MPhil or a PhD in the following topics:

  • Modelling the survival and decay of ancient proteins
  • Mathematical approaches to the analysis of complex datasets
  • Developing low cost tools for demography
  • Developing novel methods to extract and analyse ancient proteins
  • Applying ancient protein analysis to their archaeological repertoire

Other Professional Activities

Fellow of the British Academy

Niels Bohr Professor in Palaeoproteomics, University of Copenhagen

Member of the Royal Danish Society of Science and Letters

Job Titles

McDonald Professor of Palaeoproteomics
Matthew Collins  (image Lars Svankjær)

General Info

Available for consultancy
Research Expertise / Fields of study
Material Culture
Biomolecular Archaeology
Cultural Heritage

Contact Details

Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
matthew [at] palaeome.org
Cambridge
CB2 3DZ

Affiliations

Person keywords
Ancient Proteins
ZooMS
Immunology
Proteomics
Parchment
Beeswax
Subjects
Archaeological Science
Archaeology
Themes
Science, Technology and Innovation
Material Culture
Heritage
Human Evolutionary Studies
Geographical areas
Africa
Britain
Egypt and Sudan
Europe
Southeast Asia
Periods of interest
Medieval
Other Historical
Palaeolithic/Mesolithic
Post-Medieval