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Funerary practices in old Kingdom Egypt revealed through a cross-disciplinary study of a mummy with painted bandages from Gebelein (Upper Egypt) Open

Rosa Boano, Elisa Fiore Marochetti, Gianluigi Mangiapane, Michael Dee, Roberta Genta , et al. · 2025

Rare tattoos shape and composition on a South American mummy Open

Gianluigi Mangiapane, Elisabetta Di Francia, Robin Gerst, Thierry Radelet, Maurizio Aceto , et al. · 2025

Funerary practices in Old Kingdom Egypt revealed through a cross-disciplinary study of a mummy with painted bandages from Gebelein (Upper Egypt) Open

Rosa Boano, Elisa Fiore Marochetti, Gianluigi Mangiapane, Michael Dee, Roberta Genta , et al. · 2024

The present study provides new data on funerary practices performed during the Old Kingdom at Gebelein (Upper Egypt) through a multidisciplinary analysis of a complete wrapped body with painted face bandages (S16731), which we radiocarbon …

Bioarchaeological and paleogenomic profiling of the unusual Neolithic burial from Grotta di Pietra Sant’Angelo (Calabria, Italy) Open

Francesco Fontani, Rosa Boano, Alessandra Cinti, Beatrice Demarchi, Sarah Sandron , et al. · 2023

Ancient proteins resolve controversy over the identity of<i>Genyornis</i>eggshell Open

Beatrice Demarchi, Josefin Stiller, Alicia Grealy, Meaghan Mackie, Yuan Deng , et al. · 2022

The realization that ancient biomolecules are preserved in “fossil” samples has revolutionized archaeological science. Protein sequences survive longer than DNA, but their phylogenetic resolution is inferior; therefore, careful assessment …

The study of ancient archaeological finds through X-ray tomography: the case of the “Tintinnabulum” from the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of Torino Open

Luisa Vigorelli, Alessandro Re, Laura Guidorzi, Rosa Brancaccio, Cristina Bortolin , et al. · 2022

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is a widely used diagnostic technique in the field of Cultural Heritage and beyond, above all thanks to its non-invasiveness. The high penetrating power of X-rays allows us to investigate the internal structu…

Ancient proteins resolve controversy over the identity of Genyornis eggshell Open

Beatrice Demarchi, Josefin Stiller, Alicia Grealy, Meaghan Mackie, Yuan Deng , et al. · 2022

Data for Demarchi et al. in PNAS (2022):Ancient proteins resolve controversy over the identity of Genyornis eggshellThe repository contains data used inA) Phylogenetic analyses of two eggshell protein sequences …

Corrigendum to “Never boring: Non-invasive palaeoproteomics of mummified human skin” [J. Archaeol. Sci. (2020) 105145] Open

Beatrice Demarchi, Rosa Boano, Arianna Ceron, Federica Dal Bello, Sergio E. Favero‐Longo , et al. · 2020

Never boring: Non-invasive palaeoproteomics of mummified human skin Open

Beatrice Demarchi, Rosa Boano, Arianna Ceron, Federica Dal Bello, Sergio E. Favero‐Longo , et al. · 2020

Un patrimonio da valorizzare: l’Egitto antico e l’Egitto moderno nelle collezioni del Museo di Antropologia ed Etnografia di Torino / A Heritage to be enhanced. The Ancient and the modern Egypt throughout the Collections of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, Turin Open

Gianluigi Mangiapane, Elisa Campanella, Erika Grasso, Rosa Boano · 2019

Il Museo di Antropologia ed Etnografia del Sistema Museale di Ateneo dell’Università degli Studi di Torino è chiuso al pubblico da più di trenta anni e questa inacessibilità ha contribuito sia a una mancata valorizzazione delle collezioni …

Body size and social status in medieval Alba (Cuneo), Italy Open

Nicole M. Weiss, Giuseppe Vercellotti, Rosa Boano, Marilena Girotti, Sam D. Stout · 2019

Objectives Previous work by Vercellotti et al. in 2011 found significant status‐related differences in body size in males but not in females from the Italian bioarchaeological assemblage of San Michele di Trino (8th–14th centuries CE). The…

Spatial diffusion of surnames by long transhumance routes between highland and lowland: A study in Sardinia Open

Alessia Orrù, S. De Iasio, Patrizio Frederic, Marilena Girotti, Rosa Boano , et al. · 2018

The identification of archaeological eggshell using peptide markers Open

Samantha Presslee, Julie Wilson, Jos Woolley, Julia Best, Douglas Russell , et al. · 2017

Avian eggshell survives well in alkaline and neutral soils, but its potential as an archaeological resource remains largely unexplored, mainly due to difficulties in its identification. Here we exploit the release of novel bird genomes and…

Subadult dietary variation at Trino Vercellese, Italy, and its relationship to adult diet and mortality Open

Laurie J. Reitsema, Giuseppe Vercellotti, Rosa Boano · 2016

Objectives Early‐life nutrition is a predisposing factor for later‐life outcomes. This study tests the hypothesis that subadults from medieval Trino Vercellese, Italy, who lived to adulthood consumed isotopically different diets compared w…

X-ray, CT and DXA study of bone loss on medieval remains from North-West Italy Open

A Borrè, Rosa Boano, Marco Di Stefano, Anna Castiglione, Giovannino Ciccone , et al. · 2015

Un patrimonio culturale e un percorso di valorizzazione Open

Gianluigi Mangiapane, Anna Maria Pecci, Rosa Boano, Emma Rabino Massa · 2015

Questo contributo vuole illustrare la collezione di manufatti realizzati dai ricoverati nell’Ospedale Psichiatrico di Collegno (TO) fra XIX e XX secolo e conservati presso il Museo di Antropologia ed Etnografia dell’Università degli Studi …

Il Museo di Anatomia Patologica "Andrea Vesalio" di Venezia Open

Giovanni Capitanio, Barbara Cafferata, Luca Pellegrino, Rosa Boano, Ezio Fulcheri · 2015

Pulmonary antracosis on natural mummies of XVI-XVIII century AD from Roccapelago (MO, Italy) Open

Valerio Gaetano Vellone, Giovanni Repetto, Mirko Traversari, Antonino Vazzana, Rosa Boano , et al. · 2015

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