Publications of the Institute for Mummy Studies

Ancient genome-wide analysis of the early Neolithic mass grave individuals from Talheim, Germany

Granehäll L; Wurst C; Coia V; Wahl J; Zink A; Maixner F (2018)

Molecular Reconstruction of the Diet in Human Stool Samples

Maixner F (2019)

Understanding dietary effects on the gut microbial composition is one of the key questions in human microbiome research. It is highly important to have reliable dietary data on the stool samples to unambiguously link the ...

Helicobacter pylori in ancient human remains

Maixner F; Thorell K; Granehäll L; Linz B; Moodley Y; Rattei T; Engstrand L; Zink A (2019)

The bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infects the stomachs of approximately 50% of all humans. With its universal occurrence, high infectivity and virulence properties it is considered as one of the most severe ...

A First Assessment of the Conservation of the Mummified Human Remains in the Museo Egizio in Turin in the Framework of the “Mummy Conservation Project”

Samadelli M; Gregori G; Maixner F; Rossani M; Del Vesco P; Borla M; Paladin A; Wurst C; Sterflinger-Gleixner K; Voitl C; Cibin M; Thomas GS; Frohlich B; Thompson RC; Zink AR (2019)

The Museo Egizio in Turin holds a unique collection of 116 mummified or skeletal human bodies or body parts. This collection is currently under study by the “Mummy Conservation Project”, a collaborative venture of the ...

The Eyes of Oetzi: The Tyrolean Iceman Mummy

Heindl LM; Pernter P; Zink AR; Panzer S (2019)

The Tyrolean Iceman “Oetzi” is Europe’s oldest known human mummy. His body is well-preserved due to natural mummification in the glacier ice and allows a unique view on human beings during the Chalcolithic period (3400-3100 ...

Perimortem sharp force trauma in an individual from the early medieval cemetery of Säben-Sabiona in South Tyrol, Italy

Tumler D; Paladin A; Zink A (2019)

Objective To provide a detailed analysis and interpretation of cranial and postcranial lesions noted on an early medieval skeleton from the Italian Alps. Materials Individual (SK63) was buried within the early Christian ...

The current situation of the Tyrolean Iceman

Zink A; Maixner F (2019)

The Tyrolean Iceman, commonly known as Ötzi, is the world's oldest glacier mummy and one of the best investigated ancient human remains in the world. Since the discovery of the 5,300-year-old Copper Age individual in 1991, ...

The Prevotella copri complex comprises four distinct clades that are underrepresented in Westernized populations

Tett A; Huang KD; Asnicar F; Fehlner-Peach H; Pasolli E; Karcher N; Armanini F; Manghi P; Bonham K; Zolfo M; De Filippis F; Magnabosco C; Bonneau R; Lusingu R; Amuasi J; Reinhard K; Rattei T; Boulund F; Engstrand L; Zink A; Collado MC; Littman DR; Eibach D; Ercolini D; Rota-Stabelli O; Huttenhower C; Maixner F; Segata N (2019)

Prevotella copri is a common human gut microbe that has been both positively and negatively associated with host health. In a cross-continent meta-analysis exploiting >6,500 metagenomes, we obtained >1,000 genomes and ...

Mitogenomic data indicate admixture components of Central-Inner Asian and Srubnaya origin in the conquering Hungarians

Neparáczki E; Maróti Z; Kalmár T; Kocsy K; Maár K; Bihari P; Nagy I; Fóthi E; Pap I; Kustár Á; Pálfi G; Raskó I; Zink A; Török T (2018)

It has been widely accepted that the Finno-Ugric Hungarian language, originated from proto Uralic people, was brought into the Carpathian Basin by the conquering Hungarians. From the middle of the 19th century this view ...

Neue Untersuchungen an Knochenmaterial aus dem Megalithgrab Rheine-Schotthock

Gerling C; Maixner F; Schierhold K (LWL-Archäologie für Westfalen, 2018)

Verschiedene Analysen an menschlichem Knochenmaterial haben für insgesamt sieben Individuen aus dem Grab von Rheine-Schotthock neue Informationen erbracht. Schritt für Schritt entsteht so ein detailliertes Bild ...

Human perception on symmetry, raw material and size of Palaeolithic handaxes

Tumler D; Basell L; Coward F (2017)

It has often been assumed that handaxes were crafted and used primarily by adult males (Hawkes et al. 1997; Kohn & Mithen 1999; Niekus et al. 2012). However, there is no clear scientific or ethnographic evidence to ...

Biomolekulare Zugänge zur Geschlechts- und Herkunftsbestimmung der Heiligen vom Hemmaberg

Maixner F; Coia V; Wurst C; Zink A (Verlag Holzhausen GmbH, 2018)

Humidity and temperature-related preservation challenges for the Iceman

Fernicola V; Samadelli M (Pfeil, 2011)

Life traces: psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bacteria in the Iceman

Samadelli M; Wang F; Luciani S; Marota I; Olivieri C; Egarter-Vigl E; Moroder L; Zink A; Rollo F (Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 2014)

Datazione al radiocarbonio della mummia predinastica presso il Museo di Antropologia di Torino

Zink A; Samadelli M (Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, 2012)

Studio antropologico e paleopatologico dei resti scheletrici umani altomedievali del sito di Appiano/Eppan località Langhütten-Gand (Bolzano)

Paladin A; Zink A (Universitätswerlag Wagner, 2015)

Die anthropologische und paläopathologische Untersuchung der von Antonio Nicolussi 1936 in der Zone D in Langhütten-Gand in Eppan ausgegrabenen Skelettreste hat eine Mindestanzahl von 8 Individuen ergeben. Die Knochenreste ...