The biology of human hair: A multidisciplinary review

SL Koch, SR Tridico, BA Bernard… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the last century, human scalp hair morphology has been studied from multiple, and
sometimes mutually exclusive, perspectives by anthropologists, biologists, geneticists …

High-resolution stable isotope profiles of modern elephant (Loxodonta africana) tusk dentin and tail hair from Kenya: Implications for identifying seasonal variability in …

KT Uno, DC Fisher, G Schuster, G Wittemyer… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
Stable isotope ratios in tissues of large mammalian herbivores record diet and climate
information integrated over large spatial areas and can be used to study modern and fossil …

Preservation of microscopic fur, feather, and bast fibers in the Mesolithic ochre grave of Majoonsuo, Eastern Finland

T Kirkinen, O López-Costas, A Martínez Cortizas… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The study of animal and plant fibers related to grave furnishing, garments, and grave goods
in thousands-of-year-old burials provides new insights into these funerary practices. Their …

Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska

BT Wygal, KE Krasinski, JZ Metcalfe… - Environmental …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Ancient hair and remnant plant DNA are important environmental proxies that preserve for
millennia in specific archaeological contexts. However, recovery has been rare from late …

Mylodon darwinii (Owen, 1840): hair morphology of an extinct sloth

LE Santos, L Ajala-Batista, AA Carlini… - Zoomorphology, 2024 - Springer
Mylodon darwinii is an extinct terrestrial species of sloth with a wide fossil record in South
America, the record of the skin and hairs found from" La Cueva del Milodón", Chile. More …

Tracing the materiality of feathers in stone age North-Eastern Europe

K Mannermaa, T Kirkinen - Current Swedish Archaeology, 2020 - publicera.kb.se
The use of feathers in ritual costumes and everyday clothing is well described in
ethnographic sources throughout the world. From the same sources we know that bird wings …

Procesos de manufactura e identificación taxonómica de pieles en Norpatagonia argentina (Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi)

MJ Lezcano, FE Vargas, A Hajduk… - Latin American …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Se presentan los primeros resultados del análisis de pieles procesadas recuperadas en el
sitio Puerto Tranquilo 1, ubicado en el extremo norte de la Isla Victoria, en el Parque …

Archaeological human hair in a burial context: Microscopical evaluation of samples from Iași, Romania (18th–19th centuries)

OM Petraru, VM Groza, AN Neagu, L Bejenaru - Archaeometry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to its resistance to degradation, hair is an important bio‐sample with unique
properties used to study post mortem decompositional changes. The present paper is a …