Genomes from a medieval mass burial show Ashkenazi-associated hereditary diseases pre-date the 12th century

Read more by Selina Brace, Yoan Diekmann, Thomas Booth, Ruairidh Macleod Adrian Timpson, Will Stephen, Giles Emery, Sophie Cabot, Mark G. Thomas, Ian Barnes. Published on Current Biology. 30 August 2022

Substantiating microCT for diagnosing bioerosion in archaeological bone using a new Virtual Histological Index (VHI)

Read more by Kirsten Mandl, Kellie Sara Duffett Carlson, David Brönnimann, Ashley McCall, Martin Grassberger, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Estella Weiss-Krejci & Brian Metscher. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13 May 2022

Ancient Yersinia pestis and Salmonella enterica genomes from Bronze Age Crete

Read more by Gunnar U. Neumann, Eirini Skourtanioti, Marta Burri, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Megan Michel, Alina N. Hiss, Photini J.P. McGeorge, Philip P. BetancourtMaria A. Spyrou, Johannes Krause, Philipp W. Stockhammer. Published on Current Biology. 22 August 2022

Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia

Read more by Meriam guellil, Lucy Van Dorp, Sarah A. Inskip, Jenna M.Dittmar, Lehti Saag, Kristina Tambets et.al Publishred on Science Advances . 07 July 2022

Analyzing historic human-suid relationships through dental microwear texture and geometric morphometric analyses of archaeological suid teeth in the Ryukyu Islands

Read more by Eisuke Yamada, Hitomi Hongo, Hideki Endo. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. 03 June 2021

Genomic palaeoparasitology traced the occurrence of Taenia asiatica in ancient Iran (Sassanid Empire, 2th cent. CE–6th cent. CE)

Read more by Zeynab Askari, Frank Ruehli, Abigail Bouwman, Vahid Shariati, Saied Reza Naddaf, Domenico Otranto, Santiago Mas-Coma, Mostafa Rezaeian, Nicole Boenke, Thomas Stöllner, Abolfazl Aali, Iraj Mobedi & Gholamreza Mowlavi Published on Scientific Reports. 14 July 2022

Radiological evidence of purulent infections in ancient Egyptian child mummies

Read more by Stephanie Panzer, Marcus Treitl, Stephanie Zesch, Wilfried Rosendahl, Jana Helmbold-Doyé, Randall C.Thompson, Albert R.Zink. Published on International Journal of Paleopathology. 30 December 2021

Puberty in pre-Roman times: A bioarchaeological study of Etruscan-Samnite adolescents from Pontecagnano (southern Italy)

Read more by Alessia Bareggi, Carmine Pellegrino, Valentina Giuffra, Giulia Riccomi. Published on International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 20 June 2022

A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi-Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece

Read more by Chryssa Vergidou, Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi, Sofia Voutsaki, Efthymia Nikita. Published on International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 04 June 2022

The genetic origin of Huns, Avars, and conquering Hungarians

Read more by Zoltán Maróti, Endre Neparáczki, Oszkár Schütz, Kitti Maár, Gergely I.B.Varga, Bence Kovács, Tibor Kalmár, Emil Nyerki et.al Published on Current Biology. 25 May 2022

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

Read more by Maria A. Spyrou, Lyazzat Musralina, Guido A. Gnecchi Ruscone, Arthur Kocher, Pier-Giorgio Borbone, Valeri I. Khartanovich, Alexandra Buzhilova, Leyla Djansugurova, Kirsten I. Bos, Denise Kühnert, Wolfgang Haak, Philip Slavin & Johannes Krause Published on Nature. 15 June 2022

Sulci 3D mapping from human cranial endocasts: A powerful tool to study hominin brain evolution

Read more by Edwin John de Jager, Laurent Risser, Muriel Mescam, Caroline Fonta, Amélie Beaudet Published on Human Brain Mapping. 04 June 2022

Fast methods based on mass spectrometry for peptide identification. Application to sex determination of human remains in tooth enamel

Read more by Ana MaríaCasas-Ferreira, Migueldel Nogal-Sánchez, Ángel EsparzaArroyo, Javier VelascoVázquez, Jose LuísPérez-Pavón. Published on Microchemical Journal. October 2022

The evolution of human skin pigmentation involved the interactions of genetic, environmental, and cultural variables

Read more by Nina G. Jablonski Published on Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. 07 April 2021

Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution

Read more by Arthur Kocher, Luka Papac, Rodrigo Barquera, Felix M.Key, Maria A. Spyrou, Ron Hübler, Adam B. Rohrlach, Franziska Aron, Raphaela Stahl et al. Published on Science. 07 October 2021

An assessment of bone tool cleaning procedures in preparation for traceological analysis

Read more by Paula Mateo-Lomba, Juan Luis Fernández-Marchena, Irene Cazalla, Noé Valtierra, Isabel Cáceres & Andreu Ollé. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 30 April 2022

On the road again—a review of pretreatment methods for the decontamination of skeletal materials for strontium isotopic and concentration analysis

Read more by Crista Adelle Wathen, Sven Isaksson & Kerstin Lidén Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 19 February 2022

Stone Age Yersinia pestis genomes shed light on the early evolution, diversity, and ecology of plague

Read more by Aida Andrades Valtueña, Gunnar U. Neumann, Maria A. Spyrou , Lyazzat Musralina et al. Published on PNAS. 21 April 2022

Reconstructing the history of helminth prevalence in the UK

Read more by Hannah Ryan, Patrik G Flammer, Rebecca Nicholson, Louise Loe, Ben Reeves, Enid Allison, Christopher Guy, Inés Lopez Doriga, Tony Waldron †, Don Walker, Claas Kirchhelle, Greger Larson, Adrian L Smith Published on Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases. 21 April 2022

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