The genomic history of the Middle East

Read more by Mohamed A. Almarri, Marc Haber, Reem A. Lootah, Pille Hallast, Saeed Al Turki, Hilary C. Martin, Yali Xue, Chris Tyler-Smith. Published on Cell. 04 August 2021

Bioarchaeology: a profitable dialogue between microbiology and archaeology

Read more by Harald Brüssow. Published on Microbial Biotechnology. 13 February 2020

Clinical evidence that the pandemic from 1889 to 1891 commonly called the Russian flu might have been an earlier coronavirus pandemic

Read more by Harald Brüssow, Lutz Brüssow. Published on Microbial Biotechnology. 13 July 2021

Genome-scale sequencing and analysis of human, wolf, and bison DNA from 25,000-year-old sediment

Read more by Pere Gelabert, Susanna Sawyer, Anders Bergström, Ashot Margaryan, Thomas C. Collin, Tengiz Meshveliani, Anna Belfer-Cohen, David Lordkipanidz, Nino Jakeli. Published on Current Biology. 12 July 2021

How rare is rare? A literature survey of the last 45 years of paleopathological research on ancient rare diseases

Read more by Julia Gresky, Juliane Dorn, BarbaraTeßman, Emmanuele Petiti. Published on International Journal of Paleopathology. June 2021

Using Y-chromosome capture enrichment to resolve haplogroup H2 shows new evidence for a two-path Neolithic expansion to Western Europe

Read more by Adam B. Rohrlach, Luka Papac, Wolfgang Haak. Published on Scientific Reports. 22 July 2021

Differential diagnosis of a calcified cyst found in an 18th century female burial site at St. Nicholas Church cemetery (Libkovice, Czechia)

Read more by Barbara Kwiatkowska, Agata Bisiecka, Łukasz Pawelec, Agnieszka Witek, Joanna Witan, Dariusz Nowakowski, Paweł Konczewski, et.al. Published on Plos One. 02 July 2020

A call for caution in the analysis of lipids and other small biomolecules from archaeological contexts

Read more by Helen L.Whelton, Simon Hammann, Lucy J.E.Cramp, Julie Dunne, Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Richard P. Evershed. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. August 2021

A 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis

Read more by Julian Susat, Harald Lübke, Alexander Immel, Ute Brinker, Aija Macāne, John Meadows, Britta Steer, Andreas Tholey, Ilga Zagorska, Guntis Gerhards, Ulrich Schmölcke.et.al Published on Cell Reports. 29 June 2021

Human major infections: Tuberculosis, treponematoses, leprosy—A paleopathological perspective of their evolution

Read more by Maciej Henneberg , Kara Holloway-Kew, Teghan Lucas. Published on Plos One. 25 February 2021

The elusive parasite: comparing macroscopic, immunological, and genomic approaches to identifying malaria in human skeletal remains from Sayala, Egypt (third to sixth centuries AD)

Read more by Alvie Loufouma Mbouaka, Michelle Gamble, Christina Wurst, Heidi Yoko Jäger, Frank Maixner, Albert Zink, Harald Noedl & Michaela Binder. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 14 June 2021

Deep learning and taphonomy: high accuracy in the classification of cut marks made on fleshed and defleshed bones using convolutional neural networks

Read more by Gabriel Cifuentes-Alcobendas & Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo. Published on Scientific Reports. 12 December 2019

Death metal: Evidence for the impact of lead poisoning on childhood health within the Roman Empire

Read more by Joanna Moore, Kori Filipek, Vana Kalenderian, Rebecca Gowland, Elliott Hamilton, Jane Evans, Janet Montgomery . Published on International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 07 May 2021

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

Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut

Read more by Marsha C. Wibowo, Zhen Yang, […]Aleksandar D. Kostic. Published on Nature. 12 May 2021

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave

Read more by Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote,  Cesare de Filippo, Viviane Slon,  Kseniya A. Kolobova,  Bence Viola, Sergey V. Markin. Published on PNAS. 30 June 2020

Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England

Read more by Jenna M. Dittmar, Piers D. Mitchell, Peter M. Jones, Bram Mulder, Sarah A. Inskip, Craig Cessford, John E. Robb. Published on International Journal of Paleopathology. June 2021

Genome of Peştera Muierii skull shows high diversity and low mutational load in pre-glacial Europe

Read more by Emma Svensson, Torsten Günther, Alexander Hoischen, Montserrat Hervella, Arielle R. Munters, Mihai Ioana et.al. Published on Current Biology. 18 May 2021

Early development of the Neanderthal ribcage reveals a different body shape at birth compared to modern humans

Read more by Daniel García-Martínez, Markus Bastir, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Bruno Maureille, Liubov Golovanova, Vladimir Doronichev, Takeru Akazawa Published on Science Advances. 07 October 2020

Differential diagnosis of the cranial perforations on the Early Iron Age along the Ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China

Read more by Xiaoya Zhan, Ai-Jia Mu, Liang Chen, Qun Zhang, Yong Wu, Wanglin Hu & Hui-Yuan Yeh. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences . 28 October 2019

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