title: [aDNA--a new approach to old questions].
abstract: aDNA-analyses are presented for ancient bones, teeth, soft tissues and dried body fluids. The implications and perspectives for Historical Anthropology are discussed. Methods are described on examples of molecular sex determination and kinship analysis. Finally, first amplifications of DNA-sequences from pathogenes of tuberculosis and plague from ancient skeletal material are reported.
authors.affiliation: Institute für Anthropologie der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hummel
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nordsiek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rameckers
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lassen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zierdt
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Herrmann
mesh_terms: D000885:Anthropology, Physical / Q000379:methods*; D001322:Autoanalysis; D001826:Body Fluids; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000737:chemistry; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis* / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D012732:Sex Determination Analysis; D014070:Tooth / Q000737:chemistry; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000382:microbiology; D014998:Y Chromosome; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D015008:Yersinia enterocolitica / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D004247:DNA