When #skeletal #lesions tell an ambiguous story, can ancient DNA help? 🦴🧬
This study combines #palaeopathology, #CT imaging and #aDNA to investigate multiple lytic lesions in a 10th-century individual from Latvia.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #AncientPathogens

'Phylochronology' is my word of the day 🏺 This paper ticks two research interests for me:
Ancient DNA #aDNA, and #Chronology construction using #Bayesian techniques to combine multiple dating sources.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🎣 Fishing from the past!

We applied hybridization capture to sediment samples from Lake Monticchio, using targeted DNA probes to fish out specific genetic sequences from the aDNA preserved in the sediments🧬
#aDNA #HybridizationCapture #Palaeoecology #sedaDNA
#Paleogenomics

#aDNA

Ancient #genomes 🧬🦠 reveal possible gene flow between #Funnelbeaker farmers and Pitted Ware foragers, and distinct #Yersinia #pestis strains across cultural groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #AncientPathogens #Paleogenomics

Thank you Nick. Yes, the potential of ancient biomolecules to address archaeological problems fascinates me. Lots of issues with degradation, but still... There a great #aDNA community here on Bluesky that I find inspiring.
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