Ancient Burial-Places: A Suggestion

Improving Tag Suggestion for Places using Digital Map Data

Today, tagging photos and website bookmarks is widely used. Geographical data is an additional type of resource which can be tagged. Locations representing geographic information can be tagged depending on activities done there. In this paper we present an explorative study to answer the question whether geographical map data can be used to describe similarities between places. When map data ca...

Extraction and Analysis of Ancient DNA from Human Remains of Masjede Kabood Burial Site

A Suggestion on Suggestion

News from the west: ancient DNA from a French megalithic burial chamber.

Recent paleogenetic studies have confirmed that the spread of the Neolithic across Europe was neither genetically nor geographically uniform. To extend existing knowledge of the mitochondrial European Neolithic gene pool, we examined six samples of human skeletal material from a French megalithic long mound (c.4200 cal BC). We retrieved HVR-I sequences from three individuals and demonstrated th...

Ancient coins: cluster analysis applied to find a correlation between corrosion process and burial soil characteristics

Although it is well known that any material degrades faster when exposed to an aggressive environment as well as that "aggressive" cannot be univocally defined as depending also on the chemical-physical characteristics of material, few researches on the identification of the most significant parameters influencing the corrosion of metallic object are available.A series of ancient coins, coming ...