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Multi-omic Analyses of Naturally Preserved Brains from a Philadelphia Cemetery: Insights from Molecular Taphonomy and Implications for Paleopathology (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Arch Street Project: Multidisciplinary Research of a Philadelphia Cemetery" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As one of the first organs to decompose postmortem, brains are far more numerous than they should be in the archaeological record. >4,400 preserved human brains dating back some 12,000 years have been reported in the last four centuries; yet archaeological nervous tissues remain little-studied, with <1%...