This project is a collaboration between Imaging and Sensing for Archaeology, Art history and Conservation (ISAAC) Lab at Nottingham Trent University, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The museums have a broad range of enamelled objects from around the world. Enamels are thin ...
Ancient DNA (aDNA) has changed history studies, enabling us to analyze early genetic variation directly. In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the amount of collected aDNA and high-profile investigations. Still, insufficient information about the timing and geographical origin has ...
Israel is located along one of the biggest bird migration routes. Alongside a rich variety of local species, it has a very rich avifauna record. Global climate change, food availability, predator-prey relationships and anthropogenic alterations are changing species migration routes and behavior ...
For years, anthropologists have talked about the idea that the relationship between humans and yeasts could be talked about either as a case in which humans domesticated yeasts or, alternatively, in which yeasts domesticated humans. After all, the global populations of yeasts are far larger than ...
Infectious disease and dietary deficiency are two of the greatest drivers of adaptive evolution in modern human populations. These pressures have intensified since the onset of agriculture and often underlie acute episodes of population collapse, e.g. famine or epidemic events. However, for even ...
