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Recovery And Amplification Of Ancient Dna From Herculaneum Victims Killed By The 79 Ad Vesuvius Hot Surges, Fabi̇o M. Guari̇no, Claudio Buccelli, Vincenzo Graziano, Pietro La Porta, Marcello Mezzasalma, Gaetano Odierna, Mariano Paternoster, Pierpaolo Petrone
Recovery And Amplification Of Ancient Dna From Herculaneum Victims Killed By The 79 Ad Vesuvius Hot Surges, Fabi̇o M. Guari̇no, Claudio Buccelli, Vincenzo Graziano, Pietro La Porta, Marcello Mezzasalma, Gaetano Odierna, Mariano Paternoster, Pierpaolo Petrone
Turkish Journal of Biology
n thermally damaged archaeological bones the quantity, quality, and amplifiability of DNA are very much reliant on both the extent of heating and the environmental conditions of the burial context. In this study we tested the possibility of extracting and amplifying ancient DNA from human bone remains of Herculaneum victims of the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius using a combination of histochemical and molecular methods. Long bone samples with variable degrees of chromatic and morphological alterations consistent with exposure to temperatures of about 300 °C were taken from four specimens. Using histochemical stains, bone cryostat sections from three individuals revealed …