Two issues long debated among Pacific and American prehistorians are (i) whether there was a pre-Columbian introduction of chicken (Gallus gallus) to the Americas and (ii) whether Polynesian contact with South America might be identified archaeologically, through the recovery of remains of unquestionable Polynesian origin. We present a radiocarbon date and an ancient DNA sequence from a single ...

We found calcified pulmonary nodules in a middle-aged female mummy discovered from 350-yr-old Joseon tomb of Korea. In the CT scan, we found six radiopaque nodules in right lung, through the levels of thoracic vertebrae 1 to 6. We also found presumptive pleural adhesions in right thoracic cavity of CT images. We re-confirmed radiological findings by our post-factum dissection on the same mummy....

The fossil record suggests that modern human morphology evolved in Africa between 150,000 and 50,000 years ago, when the sole inhabitants of Eurasia were the Neanderthals and other equally nonmodern people. However, the earliest modern or near-modern Africans were behaviorally (archaeologically) indistinguishable from their nonmodern, Eurasian contemporaries, and it was only around 50,000-40,00...

In this article a case of spina bifida sacralis occulta (SBSO) from the Pozzanghera necropolis ancient Greek colony Leontinoi (Sicily) and archaeologically dated to 6th–4th century BC is morphologically analysed discussed. An ethnomedical excursus on knowledge impact condition in Sicilian history offered. Although SBO one most frequent congenital anomalies global palaeopathological record, comp...

The paper presents results of analysis of human skeletal remains recovered from Late Roman/Early Medieval cemetery of Novigrad (Istria). The "terminus post quem" for the site was established archaeologically as 5th or 6th century A.D. The aim of this work was detailed bioarchaeological analysis of each individual. It included determination of sex, age at the time of death, reconstruction of bod...

Considerations of ancient Maya cycles of time often focus on dated events obtained from texts on carved stone monuments or on Maya prophecies recorded in ethnohistoric documents. However, temporal cycles are also in evidence in the archaeological records of Maya households. Archaeologically recognizable cycles can be seen in the contextual data of Caracol’s residential groups, specifically in t...

The distribution of caribou at the Palangana site (XCL-00130), Alaska, is compared to two models of hunter–gatherer food sharing. Variance reduction and tolerated theft based on ethnographic observations and mathematical modeling are translated into residual archaeological faunal assemblages based on element frequencies and anatomical refitting. These models, applied to the Palangana caribou as...