Forensic Anthropological Study of Human Remains Attributed to the Apostle James Alphaeus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Serrulla
Keyword(s):  
Adult Male ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Mature Adult ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
Male Individual ◽  
Anthropological Study

We present the forensic anthropological study of the relic of the skull of James Alphaeus, which was preserved in the Chapel of the Relics of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). The remains consist of skull fragments and another few bones, which are in a state of carbonization and highly fragmented. The results show that the remains belong to a mature adult male individual, and the injuries to the skull were probably produced by a small blunt instrument such as a sword. These results lead us to doubt the identity of the remains.

scholarly journals Human remains of Ovaherero and Nama

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-106
Author(s):  
Elise Pape
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

Taking its starting point from a socio-anthropological study combining biographical interviews, semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations collected between 2016 and 2018 in Germany, France and the United States among Ovaherero and Nama activists, and also members of different institutions and associations, this article focuses on the question of human remains in the current struggle for recognition and reparation of the genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama from a transnational perspective. First, the text shows the ways in which the memory of human remains can be considered as a driving force in the struggle of the affected communities. Second, it outlines the main points of mismatches of perspective between descendants of the survivors and the responsible museums during past restitutions of human remains from German anthropological collections. Third, the article more closely examines the resources of Ovaherero in the United States in the struggle for recognition and reparation, the recent discovery of Namibian human remains in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the questions that it raises.

scholarly journals The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?

Britannia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 203-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudi Buck ◽  
Elizabeth M. Greene ◽  
Alexander Meyer ◽  
Victoria Barlow ◽  
Eleanor Graham
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Dna Analysis ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Male Individual ◽  
Ancient Dna Analysis ◽  
Taphonomic Analysis

ABSTRACTDisarticulated human remains were recovered from a first-century fort ditch at Vindolanda on the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Ancient DNA analysis revealed the skeleton to be that of a male individual and forensic taphonomic analysis suggested a primary deposition of the body in a waterlogged environment with no obvious evidence of formal burial. Occurrences of disarticulated human remains outside a cemetery context are often overlooked in Roman bioarchaeology. This discovery adds to the growing body of literature regarding alternative funerary practice in the Empire, highlighting that the concept of burial and disposal of the dead is more complex than ancient historical sources suggest. Details of the DNA analysis are provided in the Supplementary Material available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X1900014X.

scholarly journals Archaeological and Anthropological Analysis of New Materials from the Mayak Burial Ground in the Samara Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (37) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Vasilyev ◽  
◽  
Svetlana B. Borutskaya ◽  
Dmitry A. Stashenkov ◽  
Anna F. Kochkina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Male ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Adult Woman ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
New Materials ◽  
The People ◽  
The Hill

The article introduces new paleoanthropological materials from the Mayak burial ground near Sidelkino village in the Samara region into scientific discourse. The materials were obtained as a result of excavations in 1995 and only recently was it possible to date them. As a result of AMS analysis fulfilled by the authors, human remains from two burials were dated back to the Early Mesolithic. The analysis was carried out taking into account the influence of the “reservoir effect.Despite the rather poor preservation of individuals from the two described burials, the authors carried out an osteological analysis of an adult male from the second burial. He turned out to be quite tall, with elongated legs, shortened forearms, saber-shaped tibia and relatively massive bones of the lower limbs. In burial 3, the remains of an adult woman and a child of 7–10 years old were found. Comparing the osteological indicators of the man from the second burial with materials from the same burial ground of excavations in 2002, the authors came to the conclusion that the people whose remains were found on the hill Mayak in 1995 and in 2002 probably belong to the same population. Similar morphological characteristics are proof of this.

scholarly journals Fertility and mortality impacts of thermal stress from experimental heatwaves on different life stages and their recovery in a model insect

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Sales ◽  
Ramakrishnan Vasudeva ◽  
Matthew J. G. Gage
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Thermal Stress ◽  
High Temperatures ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Reproductive Function ◽  
Testis Size ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Mature Adult ◽  
Male Reproductive Function ◽  
Survival And Reproduction

With climate change creating a more volatile atmosphere, heatwaves that create thermal stress for living systems will become stronger and more frequent. Using the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum , we measure the impacts of thermal stress from experimental heatwaves in the laboratory on reproduction and survival across different insect life stages, and the extent and pace of any recovery. We exposed larvae, pupae, juvenile and mature adult male beetles to 5-day periods of heat stress where temperatures were maintained at either 40°C or 42°C, a few degrees above the 35°C optimum for this species' population productivity, and then measured survival and reproduction compared with controls at 30°C. Mortality due to thermal stress was greatest among juvenile life stages. Male reproductive function was specifically damaged by high temperatures, especially if experienced through pupal or immature life stages when complete sterility was shown at reproductive maturity; larval exposure did not damage adult male fertility. High temperatures impaired testis development and the production of viable sperm, with damage being strongest when experienced during pupal or juvenile adult stages. Despite this disruption, males recovered from heat stress and, depending on the stage of exposure, testis size, sperm production and fertility returned to normal 15–28 days after exposure. Our experiments reveal how thermal stress from heatwave conditions could impact on insect survival and reproduction across different life stages, and the potential and timescales of recovery.

Complex Legal Legacies: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Scientific Study, and Kennewick Man

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan B. Bruning
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Cultural Affiliation ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
The Law

Debates over disposition options for an inadvertently discovered set of early Holocene human remains known as Kennewick Man have fueled discussions about the scientific, cultural, and ethical implications of the anthropological study of human remains. A high-profile lawsuit over Kennewick Man has led to the most extensive judicial analysis to date of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the primary law affecting access to, and the ultimate disposition of, ancient human remains found in the United States. However, despite years of litigation, some key questions remain unanswered. The judicial decisions in Kennewick address important questions about determining Native American status and assessing cultural affiliation under the law. However, the court opinions fail to address the role of scientific study within NAGPRA's confines. This article examines NAGPRA and concludes that two provisions in the law expressly permit the scientific study of human remains if certain conditions are met. Significantly, Kennewick Man might have qualified for study under NAGPRA even if found to be Native American and culturally affiliated with the claimant tribes, which would have enabled study to proceed from the outset while the parties debated the issues of Native American status and potential cultural affiliation.

scholarly journals Complex mortuary dynamics in the Upper Paleolithic of the decorated Grotte de Cussac, France

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (26) ◽  
pp. 14851-14856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Kacki ◽  
Erik Trinkaus ◽  
Eline M. J. Schotsmans ◽  
Patrice Courtaud ◽  
Irene Dori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
The Body ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Lower Body ◽  
Red Pigment ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The Social

The Mid-Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) karstic Grotte de Cussac (France) contains two areas of human remains in the context of abundant (and spectacular) parietal engravings. The first area (loci 1 and 2) includes the skeleton of a young adult male in a bear nest, rearranged by postdecomposition inundation, and the variably fragmentary remains of at least two individuals distributed across two bear nests, sorted anatomically and with most of the elements constrained to one side of one nest. The second area (locus 3) retains remains of two adults and an adolescent, in upper hollows and variably distributed down the slope, largely segregated into upper versus lower body groups. The only decoration associated with the human remains is red pigment on some of the bones or underlying sediment. The human remains indicate variable nonnatural deposition and manipulation of human bodies, body portions, and skeletal elements of at least six individuals. Moreover, Cussac is unusual in the association of these remains with exceptional parietal art. The complex Cussac mortuary pattern joins growing evidence from other Gravettian sites of variable treatment of individuals after death, within and across sites, in terms of formal deposition of the body versus postmortem manipulation versus surface abandonment. It provides a window onto the social diversity and the complex interactions of the living and the dead among these successful Late Pleistocene foragers.

scholarly journals A specimen of little bush moa Anomalopteryx didiformis (Owen, 1844), Emeidae Bonaparte, 1854 from the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Zlatozar Boev
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Male Individual

A complete right tarsometatarsus from an unknown site of New Zealand was identified as little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis (Owen, 1844)), possibly an adult male individual.

scholarly journals STATUS OF EUCHROMATIN IN MUCOUS CELLS NUCLEI OF PYLORIC GLANDS AFTER INHALATION OF EPICHLOROHYDRIN AND CORRECTION OF EMERGING CHANGES.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
O.V. Nikolaeva ◽  
A.S. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Adult Male ◽  
Echinacea Purpurea ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mucous Cells ◽  
Electronic Microscopy ◽  
Mature Adult ◽  
Reduction Of Area ◽  
Sexually Mature

STATUS OF EUCHROMATIN IN MUCOUS CELLS NUCLEI OF PYLORIC GLANDS AFTERINHALATION OF EPICHLOROHYDRIN AND CORRECTION OF EMERGING CHANGES. Nikolaіeva O.V., Smirnov A.SIt is set by means of electronic microscopy, that the area of euchromatin in one nuclei in mucous cells nuclei of pyloric glands of stomach of flbino outbred sexually mature adult male rats after inhalation of epichlorohydrin diminished by comparison to an index for the rats of control group on 13,3% (р<0,05) and 7,4% (р<0,05) on 1th and 30th twenty-four hours of supervision accordingly. Introduction of both extract of Echinacea purple and Thiotriazoline did not cause the change of area of euchromatin. Using the extract of Echinacea purple for rats epichlorohydrin was entered that, did not influence on duration and expressed of the reduction induced by him to the area of euchromatin. Application of Thiotriazoline on a background the action of epichlorohydrin abbreviated duration of the reduction of area of euchromatin caused by him, made the duration of reduce euchromatin square shorter.Keywords: pyloric glands, mucous cells, euchromatin in one nuclei, epichlorohydrin, an extract of Echinacea purpurea, thiotriazoline. СТАН ЕУХРОМАТИНУ ЯДЕР МУКОЦИТІВ ПІЛОРИЧНИХ ЗАЛОЗ ШЛУНКА ЩУРІВ ПІСЛЯ ІНГАЛЯЦІЇ ЕПІХЛОРГІДРІНУ І КОРЕКЦІЯ ЗМІН, ЯКІ ВИНИКАЮТЬ. Ніколаєва О.В., Смірнов А.С.За допомогою електронної мікроскопії встановлено, що площа еухроматину в одному ядрі мукоцитів пілоричних залоз шлунка білих нелінійних статевозрілих щурів-самців після інгаляції епіхлоргідрину зменшувалася порівняно з показником у щурів групи контролю на 13,3% (р<0,05) і 7,4%% (р<0,05) на 1-у і 30-у добу спостереження відповідно. Введення як екстракту ехінацеї пурпурної, так і тіотриазоліну не призводило до зміни площі еухроматину. Використання екстракту ехінацеї пурпурної у щурів, яким вводили епіхлоргідрин, не впливало на тривалість і вираженість індукованого ним зменшення площі еухроматину. Застосування тіотриазоліну на тлі дії епіхлоргідрину скорочувало тривалість викликаного ним зменшення площі еухроматину, тобто пом’якшувало ефект його зменшення внаслідок негативного впливу епіхлоргідрину.Ключові слова: пілоричні залози, мукоцити, еухроматин в одному ядрі, епіхлоргідрин, екстракт ехінацеї пурпурної, тіотриазолін. СОСТОЯНИЕ ЭУХРОМАТИНА ЯДЕР МУКОЦИТОВ ПИЛОРИЧЕСКИХ ЖЕЛЕЗ ЖЕЛУДКА КРЫС ПОСЛЕ ИНГАЛЯЦИЙ ЭПИХЛОРГИДРИНА И КОРРЕКЦИЯ ВОЗНИКАЮЩИХ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ.Николаева О.В., Смирнов А.С.С помощью электронной микроскопии установлено, что площадь эухроматина в одном ядре мукоцитов пилорических желёз желудка белых нелинейных половозрелых крыс-самцов после ингаляции эпихлоргидрина уменьшалась в сравнении с показателем у крыс группы контроля на 13,3% (р<0,05) и 7,4% (р<0,05) на 1-е и 30-е сутки наблюдения соответственно. Введение как экстракта эхинацеи пурпурной, так и тиотриазолина не приводило к изменению площади эухроматина. Использование экстракта эхонацеи пурпурной у крыс, которым вводили эпихлоргидрин, не влияло на длительность и выраженность индуцированного им уменьшения площади эухроматина. Применение тиотриазолина на фоне действия эпихлоргидрина сокращало продолжительность вызванного им уменьшения площади эухроматина, т.е. смягчяло эффект его уменьшения вследствие негативного влияния эпихлоргидрина.Ключевые слова: пилорические железы, мукоциты, эухроматин в одном ядре, эпихлоргидрин, экстракт эхинацеи пурпурной, тиотриазолин. 

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