The rise and fall of the Roman Empire was a socio-political process with enormous
ramifications for human history. The Middle Danube was a crucial frontier and a crossroads …

The global need to monitor the status of marine resources is a priority task in marine
management, but most ocean surveys still rely on costly and time-consuming capture-based …

We report genome-wide data from 33 Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), dated to the 14 th century,
obtained following a salvage excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt …

Forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) provides the ability to predict the human external traits
from unknown sample donors, directly from minute amounts of DNA found at the crime …

The relationship between archeological culture and ethnicity is invariably complex. This is
especially the case for periods of national division and rapid inter-ethnic exchange, such as …

The present research investigates the relationship between dietary habits and mortality
patterns in the Roman Imperial and Medieval periods. The reconstructions of population …

This paper aims to provide a first glimpse into the genomic characterization of individuals
buried in Casal Bertone (Rome, first–third centuries AD) to gain preliminary insight into the …

The research project Diseases, health and lifestyles in Rome: from the Empire to the Early
Middle Age (PRIN 2015), covered a significant area of research, ranging from the historical …

This paper offers a review of bioarchaeological research on human mobility during the
Hellenistic and Roman period in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. This period was …

Objective Archeological excavations in the area of the “Parco archeologico di Ostia antica”
uncovered human remains requiring radiological insight to clarify the etiology of multiple …