A 3,000-year-old, basal S. enterica lineage from Bronze Age Xinjiang suggests spread along the Proto-Silk Road

Read more by Xiyan Wu, Chao Ning, Felix M. Key, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Aditya Kumar Lankapalli, Shizhu Gao, Xuan Yang, Fan Zhang, Linlin Liu, Zhongzhi Nie, Jian Ma, Johannes Krause, Alexander Herbig, Yinqiu Cui. Published on Plos Pathogens. 21 September 2021

A dental revolution: The association between occlusion and chewing behaviour

Read more by Christopher Martin Silvester, Ottmar Kullmer, Simon Hillson. Published on Plos One. 15 December 2021

The radial expansion of the Diego blood group system polymorphisms in Asia: mark of co-migration with the Mongol conquests

Read more by Florence Petit, Francesca Minnai, Jacques Chiaroni, Peter A. Underhill, Pascal Bailly, Stéphane Mazières & Caroline Costedoat. Published on European Journal of Human Genetics. 24 August 2018

Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)

Read more by Jessica L. E. Wimmer, Joana C. Xavier, Andrey d. N. Vieira, Delfina P. H. Pereira, Jacqueline Leidner, Filipa L. Sousa, Karl Kleinermanns, Martina Preiner and William F. Martin. Published on Frontiers in Microbiology. 13 December 2021

An Ancient Mesiodens Investigated by Cone Beam CT

Read more by Laura Maria Beschiu, Bogdan Alin Craiovan, Stefan Popa, Dorel Micle, Lavinia Cosmina Ardelean  and Laura Cristina Rusu. Published on Applied Sciences. 08 December 2021

Mercury poisoning in two patients with tertiary syphilis from the Ca’ Granda hospital (17th-century Milan)

Read more by Lucie Biehler-Gomez, Mirko Mattia, Carlotta Sala, Gaia Giordano, Domenico Di Candia, Carmelo Messina, Luca Maria Sconfienza, Antonia Francesca Franchini, Alessandro Porro, Paolo Maria Galimberti, Fabrizio Slavazzi, Cristina Cattaneo Published on Archaeometry. 24 September 2021

Possible case of partial postmortem fetal extrusion: Preliminary observations on the mummified remains of a turn-of-the-19th-century noblewoman in Finland

Read more by Tiina Väre, Sanna Lipkin, Titta Kallio-Seppä, Annemari Tranberg, Juho-Antti Junno. Published on International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 02 July 2021

Bioarchaeological insights into the last plague of Imola (1630–1632)

Read more by Meriam Guellil, Natascia Rinaldo, Nicoletta Zedda, Oliver Kersten, Xabier Gonzalez Muro, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Emanuela Gualdi-Russo & Barbara Bramanti. Published on Scientific Reports. 15 November 2021

The impact of the transition from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep herding on human meat consumption: Multi-isotopic analyses of human bone collagen at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey

Read more by Yu Itahashi, Mary C.Stiner, Omur Dilek Erdal, Güneş Duru, Yilmaz Selim Erdal, Yutaka Miyake, Demet Güral, Minoru Yoneda, Mihriban Özbaşaran. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. December 2021

New Approaches to the ‘Plague of Justinian’

Read more by Peter Sarris. Published on Past & Present. 13 November 2021

Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines

Read more by Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, David Anthony, Muhammad Zahir et al. Published on Nature. 20 October 2021

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic data of premodern human skeletons from mainland Japan and the Ryukyu islands

Read more by Takumi Tsutaya, Minoru Yoneda. Published on Data in Brief. October 2021

Do I have something in my teeth? The trouble with genetic analyses of diet from archaeological dental calculus

Read more by Allison E.Mann, James A.Fellows Yates, Zandra Fagernäs, Rita M.Austin, Elizabeth A.Nelson, Courtney A.Hofman. Published on Quaternary International. 19 November 2020

Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines

Read more by Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, David Anthony, Muhammad Zahir et al. Published on Nature. 20 October 2021

Maternal genetic structure in ancient Shandong between 9500 and 1800 years ago

Read more by Juncen Liu, Wen Zeng, Bo Sun, Xiaowei Mao, Yongsheng Zhao, Fen Wang, Zhenguang Li, Fengshi Luan, Junfeng Guo, Chao Zhu. Published on Science Bulletin. 15 June 2021

Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period

Read more by Frank Maixner, Mohamed S. Sarhan, Kun D. Huang, Adrian Tet, Alexander Schoenafinger, Stefania Zingale, Aitor Blanco-Míguez et al. Published on Current Biology. 13 October 2021

Distinct genetic variation and heterogeneity of the Iranian population

Read more by Zohreh Mehrjoo, Zohreh Fattahi, Maryam Beheshtian, Marzieh Mohseni, Hossein Poustchi, Fariba Ardalani, Khadijeh Jalalvand, Sanaz Arzhangi, Zahra Mohammadi, et al Published on Plos Genetics. 24 September 2019

Chinese ancient herbal processing: evidence of rice-steaming as the processing method of Rehmannia in Han Dynasty

Read more by Hui Zhu, Huasheng Peng, Luqi Huang, Yuan Yuan. Published on Science Bulletin. 26 February 2021

The paradox of HBV evolution as revealed from a 16th century mummy

Read more by Zoe Patterson Ross, Jennifer Klunk, Gino Fornaciari, Valentina Giuffra, Sebastian Duchêne, Ana T. Duggan, Debi Poinar, Mark W. Douglas, John-Sebastian Eden, Edward C. Holmes, Hendrik N. Poinar. Published on PLOS Pathogens. 04 January 2018

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