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"Improvement" of Age Estimation Using Amino Acid Racemization in a Case of Pink Teeth

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

A Basic Mathematical Simulation of the Chemical Degradation of Ancient Collagen

article by Matthew Collins et al published March 1995 in Journal of Archaeological Science

A chronological framework for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula

scientific article (publication date: 31 July 2011)

A conscious rethink: Why is brain tissue commonly preserved in the archaeological record? Commentary on: Petrone P, Pucci P, Niola M, et al. Heat-induced brain vitrification from the Vesuvius eruption in C.E. 79. N Engl J Med 2020;382:383-4.

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A guide to ancient protein studies

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

A mass spectrometry method for the determination of the species of origin of gelatine in foods and pharmaceutical products.

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A method of isolating the collagen (I) alpha2 chain carboxytelopeptide for species identification in bone fragments

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A multidisciplinary study of archaeological grape seeds

scientific article (publication date: February 2010)

A new approach to amino acid racemization in enamel: testing of a less destructive sampling methodology.

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A new era in palaeomicrobiology: prospects for ancient dental calculus as a long-term record of the human oral microbiome

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A novel and non-destructive approach for ZooMS analysis: ammonium bicarbonate buffer extraction

scientific article published on 17 May 2011

A novel method for integrated age and sex determination from archaeological cattle mandibles

scholarly article by S. McGrory published in October 2012

A preliminary investigation of the application of differential scanning calorimetry to the study of collagen degradation in archaeological bone

scholarly article by Christina M Nielsen-Marsh published in December 2000

A review of the dodo and its ecosystem: insights from a vertebrate concentration Lagerstätte in Mauritius

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

A review of the methodological aspects of aspartic acid racemization analysis for use in forensic science

scientific article

Advances in identifying archaeological traces of horn and other keratinous hard tissues

scholarly article by Sonia O'Connor published in June 2014

Age estimation: the state of the art in relation to the specific demands of forensic practise.

scientific article published in January 2000

Alzheimer's disease and amyloid beta-peptide deposition in the brain: a matter of 'aging'?

scientific article

Amino acid geochronology of the type Cromerian of West Runton, Norfolk, UK

scientific article (publication date: December 2010)

An aminostratigraphy for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula

scientific article (publication date: February 2013)

An assessment of procedures to remove exogenous Sr before 87Sr/86Sr analysis of wet archaeological wool textiles

scholarly article by I.C.C. von Holstein et al published January 2015 in Journal of Archaeological Science

An evaluation of the reactivity of synthetic and natural apatites in the presence of aqueous metals

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An integrated stable isotope study of plants and animals from Kouphovouno, southern Greece: a new look at Neolithic farming

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Analysis of collagen preservation in bones recovered in archaeological contexts using NIR Hyperspectral Imaging

scientific article published on 6 March 2014

Ancient amino acids from fossil feathers in amber.

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland

scientific article

Ancient biomolecules in Quaternary palaeoecology

scholarly article

Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Ancient goat genomes reveal mosaic domestication in the Fertile Crescent

scientific article published in Science

Ancient human microbiomes

scientific article

Ancient proteins from ceramic vessels at Çatalhöyük West reveal the hidden cuisine of early farmers

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates

scientific article (publication date: 18 March 2015)

Ancient starch: Cooked or just old?

scientific article published on 4 May 2011

Animal origin of 13th-century uterine vellum revealed using noninvasive peptide fingerprinting

scientific article

Archaeological collagen: Why worry about collagen diagenesis?

scholarly article by R. C. Dobberstein published in February 2009

Aspartic acid racemization: evidence for marked longevity of elastin in human skin.

scientific article published in November 2003

Assessing amino acid racemization variability in coral intra-crystalline protein for geochronological applications

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

Assessing the distribution of African Palaeolithic sites: a predictive model of collagen degradation

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Assessing the distribution of Asian Palaeolithic sites: a predictive model of collagen degradation

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Assessing the extent of bone degradation using glutamine deamidation in collagen

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Automated classification of starch granules using supervised pattern recognition of morphological properties

scholarly article by Julie Wilson et al published March 2010 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Barcoding the largest animals on Earth: ongoing challenges and molecular solutions in the taxonomic identification of ancient cetaceans

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Beyond the grave: variability in Neolithic diets in Southern Germany?

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Biochemical and physical correlates of DNA contamination in archaeological human bones and teeth excavated at Matera, Italy

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Biochemistry. Unlocking ancient protein palimpsests

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Bone diagenesis in a Mycenaean secondary burial (Kastrouli, Greece) ⬇️

scientific article published on 8 June 2019

Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

scholarly article by M.M.E. Jans published in January 2004

Characterisation of novel α-keratin peptide markers for species identification in keratinous tissues using mass spectrometry

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Clarification of the taxonomic relationship of the extant and extinct ovibovids, Ovibos, Praeovibos, Euceratherium and Bootherium

scholarly article

Closed-system behaviour of the intra-crystalline fraction of amino acids in mollusc shells

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Collagen proteins exchange O with demineralisation and gelatinisation reagents and also with atmospheric moisture.

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

Collagen survival and its use for species identification in Holocene-lower Pleistocene bone fragments from British archaeological and paleontological sites

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Comment on "Ecological niche of Neanderthals from Spy Cave revealed by nitrogen isotopes of individual amino acids in collagen" [J. Hum. Evol. 93 (2016) 82-90].

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Comment on "Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry"

scientific article (publication date: 4 January 2008)

Comparing the survival of osteocalcin and mtDNA in archaeological bone from four European sites

scholarly article by Michael Buckley published in June 2008

Comparison of isotopic variability in proteinaceous tissues of a domesticated herbivore: a baseline for zooarchaeological investigation

scientific article published in December 2013

DeamiDATE 1.0: Site-specific deamidation as a tool to assess authenticity of members of ancient proteomes

scientific article published in March 2020

Detecting milk proteins in ancient pots

scientific article published in November 2000

Diagenesis and survival of osteocalcin in archaeological bone

scholarly article by C.I. Smith published in January 2005

Diagenesis of archaeological bone and tooth

scholarly article by Christopher Kendall published in February 2018

Diagnosing post-mortem treatments which inhibit DNA amplification from US MIAs buried at the Punchbowl.

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Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage

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Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus

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Distinguishing between archaeological sheep and goat bones using a single collagen peptide

scholarly article by Mike Buckley published in January 2010

Erratum: Species identification by analysis of bone collagen using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry

scholarly article published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain

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Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK

Faunal record identifies Bering isthmus conditions as constraint to end-Pleistocene migration to the New World

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2014)

Finding Britain's last hunter-gatherers: A new biomolecular approach to ‘unidentifiable’ bone fragments utilising bone collagen

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Fish ’n chips: ZooMS peptide mass fingerprinting in a 96 well plate format to identify fish bone fragments

scholarly article by Kristine K. Richter et al published July 2011 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Girding the loins? Direct evidence of the use of a medieval English parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis

scientific article published on 10 March 2021

Identifying Archaeological Bone via Non-Destructive ZooMS and the Materiality of Symbolic Expression: Examples from Iroquoian Bone Points

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Insights into the processes behind the contamination of degraded human teeth and bone samples with exogenous sources of DNA

Intra-crystalline protein diagenesis (IcPD) in Patella vulgata. Part II: Breakdown and temperature sensitivity

scientific article (publication date: April 2013)

Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification

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Ionisation bias undermines the use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation for estimating peptide deamidation: Synthetic peptide studies demonstrate electrospray ionisation gives more reliable response ratios

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Is amino acid racemization a useful tool for screening for ancient DNA in bone?

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2009)

Isolation of the intra-crystalline proteins and kinetic studies in Struthio camelus (ostrich) eggshell for amino acid geochronology

Lipid distribution in a subtropical southern China stalagmite as a record of soil ecosystem response to paleoclimate change

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Long-term resilience of late holocene coastal subsistence system in Southeastern South america

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Long-term survival of ancient DNA in Egypt: response to Zink and Nerlich (2003).

scientific article published on September 2005

Mammoth and Mastodon collagen sequences; survival and utility

scholarly article

Medieval women's early involvement in manuscript production suggested by lapis lazuli identification in dental calculus

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

Mid-Holocene vertebrate bone Concentration-Lagerstätte on oceanic island Mauritius provides a window into the ecosystem of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

scientific article published in January 2009

Mineralization of the metre-long biosilica structures of glass sponges is templated on hydroxylated collagen

scientific article published on 23 November 2010

Modeling deamidation in sheep α-keratin peptides and application to archeological wool textiles

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Molecular phylogeny of the extinct cave lion Panthera leo spelaea

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Multiple Microanalyses of a Sample from the Vinland Map

scholarly article by D. V. P. Sommer et al published 15 July 2016 in Archaeometry

Neanderthal DNA. Not just old but old and cold?

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Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus.

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New criteria for the molecular identification of cereal grains associated with archaeological artefacts

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New experimental evidence for in-chain amino acid racemization of serine in a model peptide

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New insights into Neolithic milk consumption through proteomic analysis of dental calculus ⬇️

scientific article published on 9 September 2019

Osteocalcin protein sequences of Neanderthals and modern primates

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2005)

Paging through history: parchment as a reservoir of ancient DNA for next generation sequencing

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Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome

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Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne

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Pathogens and host immunity in the ancient human oral cavity

scientific article (publication date: April 2014)

Preservation of ancient DNA in thermally damaged archaeological bone.

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Preservation of the metaproteome: variability of protein preservation in ancient dental calculus.

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Protein and mineral characterisation of rendered meat and bone meal.

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Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time ⬇️

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Proteomic Analysis of a Pleistocene Mammoth Femur Reveals More than One Hundred Ancient Bone Proteins

scientific article (publication date: 3 February 2012)

Proteomic evidence of dietary sources in ancient dental calculus

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Provenancing Archaeological Wool Textiles from Medieval Northern Europe by Light Stable Isotope Analysis (δ13C, δ15N, δ2H)

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Quality assurance in age estimation based on aspartic acid racemisation

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Questioning new answers regarding Holocene chicken domestication in China

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Racemization of aspartic acid in human proteins

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Radiocarbon and Protein Analyses Indicate an Early Holocene Age for the Osseous Rod from Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Recovery of DNA from archaeological insect remains: first results, problems and potential

scholarly article by Gary A. King published in May 2009

Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Searching for Scandinavians in pre-Viking Scotland: molecular fingerprinting of Early Medieval combs

scientific article published in January 2014

Site-specific deamidation of glutamine: a new marker of bone collagen deterioration

scientific article published in October 2012

Sorting the butchered from the boiled

Species identification by analysis of bone collagen using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry

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Species identification by peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) in fibre products preserved by association with copper-alloy artefacts

scholarly article by Caroline Solazzo et al published September 2014 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Species identification using ZooMS, with reference to the exploitation of animal resources in the medieval town of Odense

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

Starch granules, dental calculus and new perspectives on ancient diet

article by Karen Hardy et al published February 2009 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Structural and chemical changes of thermally treated bone apatite

Sub-micron spongiform porosity is the major ultra-structural alteration occurring in archaeological bone

scholarly article by G. Turner-Walker published in January 2002

Technological Analysis of the World's Earliest Shamanic Costume: A Multi-Scalar, Experimental Study of a Red Deer Headdress from the Early Holocene Site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire, UK.

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Testing the aminostratigraphy of fluvial archives: the evidence from intra-crystalline proteins within freshwater shells

scientific article (publication date: November 2007)

The Removal of Protein from Mineral Surfaces: Implications for Residue Analysis of Archaeological Materials

scholarly article by Oliver E. Craig published in October 2002

The York Gospels: a 1000-year biological palimpsest

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

The application of amino acid racemization in the acid soluble fraction of enamel to the estimation of the age of human teeth.

scientific article published on 18 June 2007

The biomolecular characterization of a finger ring contextually dated to the emergence of the Early Neolithic from Syltholm, Denmark

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

The challenge of identifying tuberculosis proteins in archaeological tissues

scholarly article by Jessica Hendy published in February 2016

The dental calculus metabolome in modern and historic samples

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

The dental calculus metabolome in modern and historic samples

The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe

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The future of ancient DNA: Technical advances and conceptual shifts

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The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

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The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2012)

The identification of archaeological eggshell using peptide markers

scholarly article by Samantha Presslee published in January 2017

The identification of prehistoric dairying activities in the Western Isles of Scotland: an integrated biomolecular approach

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The impact of random natural variability on aspartic acid racemization ratios in enamel from different types of human teeth.

scientific article published on 11 May 2010

The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting

scientific article published in 2023

The survival of organic matter in bone: a review

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The thermal history of human fossils and the likelihood of successful DNA amplification

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Threads of memory: Reviving the ornament of a dead child at the Neolithic village of Ba`ja (Jordan)

scientific article published in 2023

Towards the application of desorption electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) to the analysis of ancient proteins from artefacts

Use of Amino Acids and Amino Acid Racemization for Age Determination in Archaeometry

Using ZooMS to identify fragmentary bone from the Late Middle/Early Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Les Cottés, France

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Using combined biomolecular methods to explore whale exploitation and social aggregation in hunter–gatherer–fisher society in Tierra del Fuego

Variations in glutamine deamidation for a Châtelperronian bone assemblage as measured by peptide mass fingerprinting of collagen

Walking on Eggshells: A Study of Egg Use in Anglo-Scandinavian York Based on Eggshell Identification Using ZooMS

article by John R. M. Stewart et al published 18 December 2013 in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Wet degradation of keratin proteins: linking amino acid, elemental and isotopic composition.

scientific article published in October 2014

What Happened Here? Bone Histology as a Tool in Decoding the Postmortem Histories of Archaeological Bone from Castricum, The Netherlands

scholarly article by H. I. Hollund published in August 2011

Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts

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World archaeology and global change: Did our ancestors ignite the Ice Age?

scholarly article by Peter Westbroek published in June 1993

ZooMS: making eggshell visible in the archaeological record

scholarly article by John R.M. Stewart published in April 2013

‘Milk Jugs’ and Other Myths of the Copper Age of Central Europe’

scholarly article by Oliver E. Craig published in January 2003

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