Topic · Archeology · Arts and Humanities
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4 papers
Rhonda K. Roby, Rosana A. Wiscovitch-Russo, Rebecca Hart, Amanda E. Appel, Manija A. Kazmi, Thomas Huber, Karina C. Åberg, Thomas P. Sakmar, Jose Antonio Lorente, Norberto González-Juarbe
The paper compares sampling techniques for microbial DNA recovery from artworks on paper, finding wet vacuuming yields higher DNA recovery than other methods.
Journal of Forensic Sciences · Feb 7, 2025Peer-reviewedGenetics
Bharath Nair, Ismael Rodríguez Palomo, Bo Markussen, Carsten Wiuf, Sarah Fiddyment, Matthew J. Collins
The paper introduces a method to estimate glutamine deamidation levels in parchment collagen using low-resolution MALDI-TOF data, finding it useful for archaeological and industrial applications.
Peer Community Journal · Jan 18, 2023Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Sarah Fiddyment, Natalie Jayne Goodison, Elma Brenner, Stefania Signorello, Kierri Price, Matthew J. Collins
This study uses a dry non-invasive method to extract and analyze palaeoproteomic evidence from a medieval parchment birth girdle, revealing biomolecular traces of use during childbirth.
Royal Society Open Science · Mar 1, 2021Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology
Matthew D. Teasdale, Sarah Fiddyment, Jiří Vnouček, Valeria Mattiangeli, Camilla Speller, Annelise Binois‐Roman, Martin Carver, Catherine Dand, Timothy P. Newfield, Christopher C. Webb, Daniel G. Bradley, Matthew J. Collins
The paper reports the first use of a non-invasive DNA sampling technique on the York Gospels to uncover a biological palimpsest spanning over 1,000 years.
Royal Society Open Science · Oct 1, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics