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A particular heritage: The importance of identified osteological collections [PDF]

, 2019
One of the main pillars of bioanthropological studies are identified osteological collections. The goal of this article is to describe this heritage and show its importance. Since the nineteenth century, several countries have collected sets of skulls and skeletons from people for whom we have some biographical data; among other details, their age and ...
Santos, Ana Luisa, Ana Luisa Santos
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The Identified Skeletal Collection of the School of Legal Medicine: a contemporary osteological collection housed in Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2023
AbstraOsteological collections are an important resource for the development of methods to assist in the study of skeletal remains in archeological and/or forensic contexts. The aim is to describe the current characteristics of the Identified Skeletal Collection of the School of Legal Medicine and its historical context.
Catherine Villoria Rojas, Pilar Mata Tutor, Elena Labajo González, Bernardo Perea Pérez, Andrés Santiago Sáez, María García Velasco, Cindy Mansour, María Benito Sánchez   +7 more
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The Digitization of Human Skeletal Collections: New Challenges and Perspectives [PDF]

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Human skeletal remains are a crucial source for understanding biocultural and evolutionary processes. Yet, their study and management are challenged by social, religious, and political factors, placing them in a ‘grey area’ within cultural heritage ...
Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Rita Sorrentino, Davide Mameli, Annalisa Pietrobelli, Teresa Nicolosi, Valentina Mariotti, Carla Figus, Elisa Lodolo, Laura Forni, Stefano Ratti, Antonio Rosas, Luis Francisco Ríos Frutos, Antony Colombo, Melania Maglio, Lucia Martini, Gregorio Marchiori, Gianluca Giavaresi, Milena Fini   +17 more
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Evaluating bacterial pathogen DNA preservation in museum osteological collections [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2005
Reports of bacterial pathogen DNA sequences obtained from archaeological bone specimens raise the possibility of greatly improving our understanding of the history of infectious diseases. However, the survival of pathogen DNA over long time periods is poorly characterized, and scepticism remains about the reliability of these data.
Ian, Barnes, Mark G, Thomas
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Oleg Kotlyarov, a mammalogist, experimenter, and researcher of variability of rodents [PDF]

Novitates Theriologicae, 2022
Oleg Kotlyarov represents the school of pheneticists, which is unique for the Ukrainian mammalogy, who study not only the variability of fine osteological characters generalized into standard morphotypes, but also carry out experiments on their heredity ...
Igor Zagorodniuk
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Fetal age at death estimation on dry bone: testing the applicability of equations developed on a radiographic sample

Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica, 2019
The paucity of identified skeletal collections that include fetuses entails the need to pursue unconventional approaches and resources in order to investigate fetal anatomical variation. Radiographic analyses are being considered as a good alternative to
Cristiana Carneiro, Francisco Curate, Inmaculada Alemán, Miguel Botella, Eugénia Cunha   +4 more
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Structured-Light 3D Scanning as a Tool for Creating a Digital Collection of Modern and Fossil Cetacean Skeletons (Natural History Museum, University of Pisa)

Heritage, 2023
The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa hosts one of the most important osteological collections of cetaceans all over Europe, as well as a conspicuous paleontological collection, including several holotypes of Archaeoceti (archaic whales ...
Marco Merella, Simone Farina, Patrizia Scaglia, Gaia Caneve, Giada Bernardini, Alice Pieri, Alberto Collareta, Giovanni Bianucci   +7 more
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Kryvolapov Volodymyr Pavlovych, mammalogist and chief curator of the Museum of Nature at Kharkiv University [PDF]

Novitates Theriologicae, 2022
Volodymyr Kryvolapov (1951–2015) worked at the Museum of Nature during 1976–2015, including as chief curator since 1988. He also worked as a taxidermist, participated in the creation of many skin-mounts for the exhibition and study-skins for scientific ...
Yurii Iliukhin
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Linked collectors and determiners for: Bird skeletons in the modern Osteological Collections at the University Museum of Bergen.

Natural history specimen data linked to collectors and determiners held within, "Bird skeletons in the modern Osteological Collections at the University Museum of Bergen".
Bionomia
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Serhiy Teslenko, a researcher of sibling rodent species and a teacher [PDF]

Novitates Theriologicae, 2022
Essay on Serhiy Teslenko (1959–2000), a researcher of sibling rodent species and their differences by geographical, ecophysiological, and cranial characters.
Igor Zagorodniuk
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