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Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity

Read more by Sarah Inskip, Craig Cessford, Jenna Dittmar, Alice Rose et.al. Published on Antiquity. 01 December 2023

The diachronic trend of female and male stature in Milan over 2000 years

Read more by Lucie Biehler-Gomez, Beatrice del Bo, Daniele Petrosino, Paolo Morandini, Mirko Mattia, Luca Palazzolo, Uliano Guerrini & Cristina Cattaneo Published on Scientific Reports. 23 February 2023

Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers

Read more by Frederik Valeur Seersholm, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Julia Koelman, Malou Blank, Emma M. Svensson, Jacqueline Staring, Magdalena Fraser, Thomaz Pinotti, Hugh McColl et.al. Published on nature. 10 July 2024

Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria

Read more by Megan Michel, Eirini Skourtanioti, Federica Pierini, Evelyn K. Guevara, Angela Mötsch, Arthur Kocher, Rodrigo Barquera, Raffaela A. Bianco, Selina Carlhoff, Lorenza Coppola Bove et.al. Published on nature. 12 June 2024

Physicochemical and metagenomic analysis of samples from the Roman Baths (Bath, UK) reveals high bacterial and archaeal diversity and a potential for antimicrobial discovery

Read more by Enus Fina, Michele Kiernan, Bonnie Whatmough, Nathaniel J. Clark, Jazmin Conway, Iga W. Wieczorek, Laura Carey, et.al Published on The Microbe. June 2024

Case report: Boundaries of oncological and traumatological medical care in ancient Egypt: new palaeopathological insights from two human skulls

Read more by Tatiana Tondini, Albert Isidro, Albert Isidro, Edgard Camars, Edgard Camarós. Published on Frontiers. 29 May 2024

Caries prevalence and other dental pathological conditions in Vikings from Varnhem, Sweden

Read more by Carolina Bertilsson ,Maria Vretemark,Henrik Lund,Peter Lingström. Published on plos one. 13 December 2023

Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genome reveals medieval English red squirrels as animal leprosy host

Read more by Christian Urban, Alette A. Blom, Charlotte Avanzi, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Alaine K. Warren, Katie White-Iribhogbe, Ross Turle, Phil Marter, Heidi Dawson-Hobbis, Simon Roffey, Sarah A. Inskip, Verena J. Schuenemann. Published on Current biology. 03 May 2024

Origin and dispersal history of Hepatitis B virus in Eastern Eurasia

Read more by Bing Sun, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Arthur Kocher, Shizhu Gao, Chunxiang Li, Shuang Fu, Fan Zhang, Pengcheng Ma, Xuan Yang, Yulan Qiu, Quanchao Zhang, Jian Ma, Shan Chen, Xiaoming Xiao et. al. Published on Nature Communications. 05 April 2024

Cases of trisomy 21 and trisomy 18 among historic and prehistoric individuals discovered from ancient DNA

Read more by Adam Benjamin Rohrlach, Maïté Rivollat, Patxuka de-Miguel-Ibáñez, Ulla Moilanen, Anne-Mari Liira, João C. Teixeira, Xavier Roca-Rada, Javier Armendáriz-Martija, Kamen Boyadzhiev, Yavor Boyadzhiev et.al. Published on nature communications. 20 February 2024

Human brains preserve in diverse environments for at least 12 000 years

Read more by Alexandra L. Morton-Hayward, Ross P. Anderson, Erin E. Saupe, Greger Larson and Julie G. Cosmidis Published on the Royal Society Publishing. 20 March 2024

Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans

Read more by Nora Bergfeldt, Emrah Kırdök, Nikolay Oskolkov, Claudio Mirabello, Per Unneberg, Helena Malmström, Magdalena Fraser, Federico Sanchez-Quinto, Roger Jorgensen, Birgitte Skar, Kerstin Lidén, Mattias Jakobsson, Jan Storå & Anders Götherström. Published on Scientific Reports. 07 March 2024

Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil

Read more by Kerttu Majander, Marta Pla-Díaz, Louis du Plessis, Natasha Arora, Jose Filippini, Luis Pezo-Lanfranco, Sabine Eggers, Fernando González-Candelas & Verena J. Schuenemann. Published on nature. 24 January 2024

Biological and substitute parents in Beaker period adult–child graves

Read more by Nicoletta Zedda, Katie Meheux, Jens Blöcher, Yoan Diekmann, Alexander V. Gorelik, Martin Kalle, Kevin Klein, Anna-Lena Titze, Laura Winkelbach, Elise Naish, Laurent Brou, François Valotteau, Foni Le Brun-Ricalens, Joachim Burger & Maxime Brami. Published on scientific reports. 31 October 2023

Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA

Read more by Harald Ringbauer, Yilei Huang, Ali Akbari, Swapan Mallick, Iñigo Olalde, Nick Patterson & David Reich. Published on nature genetics. 20 December 2023

Bioarchaeological study of ancient Teotihuacans based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences and diet isotopes

Read more by Fuzuki Mizuno, Fuyuki Tokanai, Masahiko Kumagai, Koji Ishiya, Saburo Sugiyama, Michiko Hayashi, Kunihiko Kurosaki & Shintaroh Ueda. Published on Annals of Human Biology. 06 September 2023

Ancient dental calculus reveals oral microbiome shifts associated with lifestyle and disease in Great Britain

Read more by Abigail S. Gancz, Andrew G. Farrer, Michelle P. Nixon, Sterling Wright, Luis Arriola, Christina Adler, Emily R. Davenport, Neville Gully, Alan Cooper, Kate Britton, Keith Dobney, Justin D. Silverman & Laura S. Weyrich. Published on nature microbiology. 29 November 2023

Lateral angle: A landmark-based method for the sex estimation in human cremated remains and application to an Austrian prehistoric sample

Read more by Lukas Waltenberger, Patrick Heimel, Hannah Skerjanz, Stefan Tangl, Domnika Verdianu, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury. Published on American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 19 November 2023

Comparing the Boxgrove and Atapuerca (Sima de los Huesos) human fossils: Do they represent distinct paleodemes?

Read more by Annabelle L. Lockey, Laura Rodríguez, Laura Martín-Francés, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Lucile Crété, María Martinón-Torres, Simon Parfitt, Matt Pope, Chris Stringer. Published on Journal of Human Evolution. November 2022