Paleoproteomics, the study of ancient proteins, is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of
molecular biology, paleontology, archaeology, paleoecology, and history. Paleoproteomics …

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

Forensic odontology is primarily concerned with the use of teeth and oral structures for
identification in a legal context. Various forensic odontology techniques help in the …

The assignment of biological sex to archaeological human skeletons is a fundamental
requirement for the reconstruction of the human past. It is conventionally and routinely …

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

Tooth enamel is the outer covering of tooth crowns, the hardest material in the mammalian
body, yet fracture resistant. The extremely high content of 95 wt% calcium phosphate in …

Sex estimation of skeletons is fundamental to many archaeological studies. Currently, three
approaches are available to estimate sex–osteology, genomics, or proteomics, but little is …

Protein is a major component of all biological evidence, often the matrix that embeds other
biomolecules such as polynucleotides, lipids, carbohydrates, and small molecules. The …

Amelogenin genes are located on both X and Y sex chromosomes in humans and are a
major focus of DNA-based sex estimation methods. Amelogenin proteins, AMELX_HUMAN …

Objectives This study tests, for the first time, the applicability of a new method of sex
estimation utilizing enamel peptides on a sample of deciduous and permanent teeth at …