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DOCUMENT Citation Only Tina Czaplinska. Meradeth Snow.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. DNA acquisition from skeletal remains reveals a wealth of information that observational analysis alone does not offer. Researchers can glean an individual’s ancestry, lineage, and biological sex and review genetic diversity. However, most current methods require some form of destruction to extract genetic material, which can dissuade entities (museum...