Excavated DNA from Two Khazar Burials

Luxurious Merovingian Textiles Excavated from Burials in theSaint Denis Basilica, France in the 6th-7th Century

Two contemporaneous mitogenomes from terminal Pleistocene burials in eastern Beringia.

Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple mitochondrial genomes from a single prehistoric population: two infant burials (USR1 and USR2) from a common interment at the Upward Sun River Site in central Alaska dating to ∼11,500 cal B.P. Using a targeted capture metho...

Human Burials

Taphonomic factors significantly affect the preservation of bone specimens that are ultimately available for examination by the researcher. Burial practices can disturb previous interments, as does rodent burrowing. Soil pH can greatly alter or destroy many smaller bone or bone with less density. Flooding and erosional episodes, as discussed in the last paper, can severely disturb burials. Fina...

Mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms in late Shell midden period skeletal remains excavated from two archaeological sites in Okinawa

To investigate the genetic structure of individuals from the Shell midden (Kaizuka) period in Okinawa Island, sequence polymorphisms in hypervariable region 1 (HVR1), HVR2, the coding region that defines macrohaplogroup M and N, and 24 single nucleotide polymorphisms in the coding region of mitochondrial DNA were analyzed in 29 tooth samples excavated from an Ufutobaru shell midden site and a G...

Burials: Dietary Sampling Methods