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29 Apr 2021 00:00

Interdisciplinary team of scientists discover new informations about the recolonization of Europe

Federico Bernardini, archaeologist of the VePDH of the Department of Humanities and of the Multidisciplinary Laboratory of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics 
(UNESCO) of Trieste, contributed to the study of a human jaw from Riparo Tagliente (Verona), dating back about 17000 years ago. The results of the research, coordinated by the University of Bologna, have been published in the prestigious journal Current Biology, and have shown how the prehistoric migrations that contributed to shape the genetic background of all present Europeans, started about 3000 years before previously hypothesized. In particular, Federico Bernardini generated a virtual reconstruction of the internal and external structure of the mandible through X-ray computed micro-tomography. Observation of the data thus collected made it possible to study the mandible in a non-destructive way and to identify pathological lesions.

Figure: MicroCT-derived virtual model of the Tagliente mandible, with a pathological lesion in red. (credits: Gregorio Oxilia)

 

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Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, VeDPH

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221004516?dgcid=author

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