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>Building three-dimensional models before destructive sampling of bioarchaeological remains: a comment to Pálsdóttir et al. (2019)
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Building three-dimensional models before destructive sampling of bioarchaeological remains: a comment to Pálsdóttir et al. (2019)
Pálsdóttir et al. [1] have recently brought attention of thebioarchaeology and archaeozoology communities, museumsand other institutions that curate archaeofaunal collections tothe importance of achieving reasoned destructive samplingstrategies when performing analyses requesting destruction ofbioarchaeological remains for e.g. C14 dating, ancient DNA,palaeoproteomics, collagen fingerprinting or isotope analyses.Though the results obtained from such approaches producemajor advances in our understanding of past fauna and theirrelationship with humans, such approaches cannot (yet) beperformed without the destruction of at least a small portion ofbone or tooth. Though Pálsdóttir et al. [1] focus on animalremains, the same is true for plants with cereal grains, chaff,seeds, charcoal and wood that can be submitted to the samevariety of bioarchaeological analyses. Pálsdóttir et al. [1]suggested that advances in three-dimensional (3D) imagingto build digital models can be used to record specimensbefore destructive sampling. Here, we provide information about available techniques to build such archives. We also emphasize the importance of the petrousbone, currently the most targeted bone for ancient DNA studies [2,3].
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