New Techniques in the Study of Human Remains

NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 7PM, online via Zoom: 7:00 PM: The GCAS welcomes West-Mexican archaeologist Manuel Dueñas Garcia as our Featured Speaker. As usual for our Zoom meetings we invite everyone to hop online about 6:45 PM to get settled while we have a brief-to-nonexistent business meeting. Manuel will begin his presentation at 7PM sharp to share his perspectives on Aguascalientes Archaeology and the Northern border of Mesoamerica during the Epiclassic (600-900 CE). Members, check your email about a week prior to the meeting to receive your Zoom link. We'll see you online as Manuel discusses new insights about our region.

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New Techniques in the Study of Human Remains

02/02/2019

Researchers have discovered that a certain protein in tooth enamel comes from a sex-specific gene. Scientists at the University of California/Davis have taken that discovery and developed a technique by which they can determine the gender of human remains even if only a single tooth is all that is recovered. Details are in this recent article in Archaeology magazine.

This technology is potentially a great help to archaeologists, including those who study our area of the US Southwest, because the recovery of a single tooth that is not associated with any other human remains may now yield more valuable and relevant information about a given archaeological site than ever before.

Science is so cool.

/s/ webmaster

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