Archaeogenetics
1 reportArchaeogenetics is an archaeological method used to locate, date, document, sample, or interpret material evidence. Reliability depends on interpretive uncertainty, material analysis, and calibration procedure; biased samples, violated assumptions, or measurement error can narrow what the result establishes.
New findings about Archaeogenetics are placed alongside dating or detection limits and spatial context, with separate attention to interpretive assumptions. The treatment of interpretive assumptions keeps calibration standards separate from blind or comparative tests until their assumptions and scales are compared; the evidence is read with the caveat that disturbance, contamination, and incomplete context can narrow what the method establishes.
New findings about Archaeogenetics are placed alongside dating or detection limits and spatial context, with separate attention to interpretive assumptions. The treatment of interpretive assumptions keeps calibration standards separate from blind or comparative tests until their assumptions and scales are compared; the evidence is read with the caveat that disturbance, contamination, and incomplete context can narrow what the method establishes.
Ancient DNA Survives 50,000 Years in South African Cave
Researchers have recovered DNA from a 50,000-year-old antelope tooth in Boomplaas Cave, South Africa, challenging assumptions about DNA survival in hot climates and expanding the potential for ancient genetic studies in sub-Saharan Africa