• Identify tissues that preserve traces of the archaeomicrobiome
• Develop computational methods to detect and identify unknown diseases
  in ancient populations

• The ancient microbiome in Peruvian mummies

Presentations

• Campana, M.G.,  N. Tuross & F. Rühli. 2013. Detection and identification of the microbiome in archaeological soft and hard tissues: a high-throughput DNA sequencing approach. Lecture given at the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Campana, M.G.,  N. Robles García, F. Rühli & N. Tuross. 2013. Disease, death and DNA at Teposcolula Yucundaa, Oaxaca. Lecture given at the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

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