Identification of kinship and occupant status in Mongolian noble burials of the Yuan Dynasty through a multidisciplinary approach

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1660, 2015, Pages

  Cui, Yinqiu ^a   Song, Li ^a   Wei, Dong ^a   Pang, Yuhong ^b   Wang, Ning ^c   Ning, Chao ^a   Li, Chunmei ^b   Feng, Binxiao ^b   Tang, Wentao ^a   Li, Hongjie ^a   Ren, Yashan ^d   Zhang, Chunchang ^e   Huang, Yanyi ^b   Hu, Yaowu ^c,f   Zhou, Hui ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d Hebei Provincial Centre for Cultural Relics Protection   (China)

^e Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relic   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Archaeology; Kinship; Mitochondrial DNA; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); ETHNIC GROUP; EXCAVATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; KINSHIP; SKELETAL REMAINS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CHINA; HEBEI;

COLLAGEN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OXYGEN; TRITIUM;

ARCHEOLOGY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; BURIAL; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COLLAGEN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRITIUM;

EID: 84916237178     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0378     Document Type: Article

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