In an effort to characterize the people who composed the groups known as the Xiongnu,
nuclear and whole mitochondrial DNA data were generated from the skeletal remains of 52 …

Objectives This work focuses on the populations of South Siberia during the Eneolithic and
Bronze Age and specifically on the contribution of uniparental lineage and phenotypical data …

In the absence of any other conclusive forensic evidence, DNA profiling is the method of
choice for body identification. This study focuses on the case of a carbonized corpse whose …

Over the last few years, palaeogenomic studies of the petrous bone (the densest part of the
temporal bone) have shown that it is a source of DNA in both larger quantities and of better …

Scythians are known from written sources as horse-riding nomadic peoples who dominated
the Eurasian steppe throughout the Iron Age. However, their origins and the exact nature of …

Simple Summary We have studied the dental epidemiology of 96 frozen bodies from north-eastern
Siberia (Yakuts) before and after the contact—with an accurate chronology–between …

For fifteen years, part of the work of our research team has been focused on the study of
parental links between individuals living hundreds or thousands of years ago, whose remains …

Seventeen years of archaeological and anthropological expeditions in North-Eastern
Siberia (in the Sakha Republic, Yakutia) have permitted the genetic analysis of 150 ancient (15th-…

The likelihood ratio (LR) method is commonly used to determine kinship in civil, criminal, or
forensic cases. For the past 15 years, our research group has also applied LR to ancient …

The recent developments in genomic sequencing have permitted the publication of many new
complete genome sequences of Treponema pallidum pallidum, the bacterium responsible …