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The Eyes of Oetzi: The Tyrolean Iceman Mummy
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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Life traces: psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bacteria in the Iceman
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Datazione al radiocarbonio della mummia predinastica presso il Museo di Antropologia di Torino
(Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, 2012) -
Studio antropologico e paleopatologico dei resti scheletrici umani altomedievali del sito di Appiano/Eppan località Langhütten-Gand (Bolzano)
(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 ... -
La mummia di Merano: viaggio alla scoperta di una mummia
(Mummy Project Research, 2017)ll volume raccoglie e analizza gli studi effettuati dal team multidisciplinare guidato da Malgora sulla mummia egizia e il suo sarcofago, conservati presso il museo meranese. La mummia, che era stata portata a Merano ... -
Mitogenomic data indicate admixture components of Central-Inner Asian and Srubnaya origin in the conquering Hungarians
(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 ... -
Anthropologie und Öffentlichkeit
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Checklist and Scoring System for the Assessment of Soft Tissue Preservation in CT Examinations of Human Mummies: Application to the Tyrolean Iceman
(2017)Purpose Soft tissues make a skeleton into a mummy and they allow for a diagnosis beyond osteology. Following the approach of structured reporting in clinical radiology, a recently developed checklist was used to evaluate ... -
Mitochondrial, Y-chromosomal and autosomal variation in Mbenzele Pygmies from the Central African Republic
(2010)In this paper, we carry out a combined analysis of autosomal (ten microsatellites and an Alu insertion), mitochondrial (HVR-1 sequence, 360 nucleotides) and Y-chromosomal (seven microsatellites) variation in the Mbenzele ... -
The Sommersdorf mummies: An interdisciplinary investigation on human remains from a 17th-19th century aristocratic crypt in southern Germany
(2017)Sommersdorf Castle (Bavaria, Germany) is a medieval castle complex which has been inhabited by the aristocratic family von Crailsheim. The deceased were entombed in a crypt located in the parapets underneath the castle's ... -
“The Chalcolithic Mummy - in search of immortality”
(Folio, 2006)