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

15/07/2022
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

15/07/2022
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)

02/07/2022
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

02/07/2022
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

16/06/2022
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

16/06/2022
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

09/06/2022
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

09/06/2022
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

20/05/2022
Read more by Nina G. Jablonski Published on Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. 07 April 2021

Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution

20/05/2022
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

12/05/2022
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

12/05/2022
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

26/04/2022
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

26/04/2022
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

Health effects of European colonization: An investigation of skeletal remains from 19th to early 20th century migrant settlers in South Australia

15/04/2022
Read more by Angela Gurr, Jaliya Kumaratilake, Alan Henry Brook, Stella Ioannou,F. Donald Pate, Maciej Henneberg. Published on Plos One. 06 April 2022

Isotopic reconstruction of short to absent breastfeeding in a 19th century rural Dutch community

15/04/2022
Read more on Andrea L. Waters-Rist, Kees de Groot, Menno L. P. Hoogland Published on Plos One. 13 April 2022

The Bodies in the ‘Bog’: A Multi-Isotope Investigation of Individual Life-Histories at an Unusual 6th/7th AD Century Group Burial from a Roman Latrine at Cramond, Scotland

29/03/2022
Read more by Orsolya Czére, John A. Lawson, Gundula Müldner, Jane Evans, Angela Boyle & Kate Britton. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 24 March 2022

Inferring lumbar lordosis in Neandertals and other hominins 

29/03/2022
Read more by Scott A Williams, Iris Zeng, Glen J Paton, Christopher Yelverton, ChristiAna Dunham, Kelly R Ostrofsky, Saul Shukman, Monica V Avilez, Jennifer Eyre, Tisa Loewen, Thomas C Prang, Marc R Meyer. Published on PNAS Nexus. 02 March 2022

Life and death of a leprosy sufferer from the 8th-century-CE cemetery of Kiskundorozsma–Kettőshatár I (Duna-Tisza Interfluve, Hungary)—Biological and social consequences of having Hansen’s disease in a late Avar Age population from Hungary

16/03/2022
Read more by Olga Spekker, Balázs Tihanyi, Luca Kis, Csaba Szalontai, Tivadar Vida, György Pálfi, Antónia Marcsik, Erika Molnár Published on Plos One. 18 February 2022

Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth

16/03/2022
Read more by Tanya M.Smith, ChristineAustin, Janaína N.Ávilaa, WendyDirkse, Daniel R.Greenfg, Ian S.Williams, ManishArorac Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. April 2022

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