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Integrating buccal and occlusal dental microwear with isotope analyses for a co...
Hernando, Raquel; Gamarra, Beatriz; McCall, Ashley; Cheronet, Olivia; Fernandes, Daniel; Sirak, Kendra; Schmidt, Ryan; Lozano, Marina; Szeniczey, TamásDietary reconstruction is used to make inferences about the subsistence strategies of ancient human populations, but it may also serve as a proxy to characterise their diverse cultural and technological manifestations. Dental microwear and stable isotope analyses have been shown to be successful techniques for paleodietary reconstruction of ancient populations but, despite yielding complementary dietary informa...
Cranial deformation and genetic diversity in three adolescent male individuals ...
Fernandes, Daniel; Sirak, Kendra; Cheronet, Olivia; Howcroft, Rachel; Čavka, Mislav; Los, Dženi; Burmaz, Josip; Pinhasi, Ron; Novak, MarioThree individuals dating to the Great Migration Period (5th century CE) were discovered in a pit at the Hermanov vinograd site in Osijek, Croatia. We were inspired to study these individuals based on their unusual burial context as well as the identification of two different types of artificial cranial deformation in two of the individuals. We combine bioarchaeological analysis with radiographic imaging, stable...
The Identification of a 1916 Irish Rebel: New Approach for Estimating Relatedne...
Fernandes, Daniel; Sirak, Kendra; Novak, Mario; Finarelli, John A.; Byrne, John; Connolly, Edward; Carlsson, Jeanette E. L.; Ferretti, EdmondoThomas Kent was an Irish rebel who was executed by British forces in the aftermath of the Easter Rising armed insurrection of 1916 and buried in a shallow grave on Cork prison's grounds. In 2015, ninety-nine years after his death, a state funeral was offered to his living family to honor his role in the struggle for Irish independence. However, inaccuracies in record keeping did not allow the bodily remains tha...
Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East
Lazaridis, Iosif; Nadel, Dani; Rollefson, Gary; Merrett, Deborah C.; Rohland, Nadin; Mallick, Swapan; Fernandes, Daniel; Novak, Mario; Gamarra, Beatriz
Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific
Skoglund, Pontus; Posth, Cosimo; Sirak, Kendra; Spriggs, Matthew; Valentin, Frédérique; Bedford, Stuart; Clark, Geoffrey R.; Reepmeyer, Christian