Over the past 30 years, ancient DNA studies have grown from a scientific curiosity into a
powerful research tool with applications in molecular evolution, archaeology, paleontology …

The analysis of ancient proteins from paleontological, archeological, and historic materials is
revealing insights into past subsistence practices, patterns of health and disease, evolution …

Palaeoproteomics is an emerging neologism used to describe the application of mass
spectrometry-based approaches to the study of ancient proteomes. As with palaeogenomics …

The last two decades have seen a broad diversity of methods used to identify and/or
characterize proteins in the archeological and paleontological record. Of these, mass …

Advances in resolution and sensitivity of analytical techniques have provided novel
applications, including the analyses of fossil material. However, the recovery of original …

The field of proteomic research, analogous to genomic research, has only recently
witnessed a rapid increase in its application to the study of ancient materials. Bone has been …

Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

In the last 5 decades, paleontological research has exploded where fossils have enabled
robust dating of rocks, improved understanding of origination/extinction rates or mass …

Fossilized bones from extinct taxa harbor the potential for obtaining protein or DNA
sequences that could reveal evolutionary links to extant species. We used mass …

We used high-sensitivity, high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry to shotgun sequence
ancient protein remains extracted from a 43 000 year old woolly mammoth (Mammuthus …