Ancient DNA as a multidisciplinary experience

Ancient Olympia as a Three Dimensional Museum Experience

This paper will present the techniques used in the production of a 3D narrated tour of the ancient precinct of Olympia set in 200 BC; and detail the approaches undertaken to digitise the Statue of Zeus using an hand held laser scanner, together with the processing of this data into a high resolution model suitable for interactive display. The web site will be briefly described with focus direct...

Ancient DNA from Human and Animal

Research on ancient DNA (aDNA) has the potential to enable molecular biologists and archeologists to decipher certain aspects of history by direct looking into the past. However, several major problems in this field limit the applicability of aDNA studies, most importantly contamination with modern DNA and postmortem DNA degradation. In this study we extracted and analyzed aDNA obtained from ~3...

Retroviral DNA Sequences as a Means for Determining Ancient Diets.

For ages, specialists from varying fields have studied the diets of the primeval inhabitants of our planet, detecting diet remains in archaeological specimens using a range of morphological and biochemical methods. As of recent, metagenomic ancient DNA studies have allowed for the comparison of the fecal and gut microbiomes associated to archaeological specimens from various regions of the worl...

Ancient DNA as a Means to Investigate the European Neolithic

Ancient DNA

Ancient DNA is a field of molecular evolutionary biology that usesDNA sequence data recovered frompoorly preserved organisms, usually deceased for hundreds to hundreds of thousands of years. Ancient DNA data can provide unique snapshots in time to better understand how populations and species evolve. The field was born in the early 1980s,when thefirst ancientDNAsequences were recovered from pre...