Domestication and varietal diversification of Old World cultivated cottons (Gossypium sp.) in the Antiquity by Christopher Viot

“…Recent progress on ancient DNA analysis should permit easier specific assignments of archaeological remains of cotton seeds, fibres, threads or fabrics.…”
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Plant interactions associated with a directional shift in the richness range size relationship during the Glacial-Holocene transition in the Arctic by Ying Liu, Simeon Lisovski, Jérémy Courtin, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Ulrike Herzschuh

“…By analysing sedimentary ancient DNA from seven lakes, we reconstruct plant richness, biotic environmental heterogeneity, and mean range-size over the last 30,000 years. …”
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PaleoProPhyler: a reproducible pipeline for phylogenetic inference using ancient proteins by Patramanis, Ioannis, Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín, Cappellini, Enrico, Racimo, Fernando

“…In contrast to the field of ancient DNA - where several computational methods exist to process and analyze sequencing data - few tools exist for handling ancient protein sequence data. …”
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Genomic analysis of three medieval parchments from German monasteries by Felix Heinrich, Henner Simianer, Jörg Bölling, Hedwig Röckelein, Christian Roos, Christian Reimer, Armin O. Schmitt

“…Abstract In the last two decades there has been growing interest in the analysis of ancient DNA obtained from the parchment used in historic documents. …”
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Neolithic pastoralism and plant community interactions at high altitudes of the Pyrenees, southern Europe by Irene Julián-Posada, Graciela Gil-Romera, Sandra Garcés-Pastor, Peter D. Heintzman, Daniel Gómez, Federico Fillat, Ana Moreno, Javier Lara-Recuero, Pere Bover, Lourdes Montes, Alejandro Sierra, Blas Valero-Garcés, Inger G. Alsos, Penélope González-Sampériz

“…We generated a comprehensive sedimentary ancient DNA record from the central Pyrenees, spanning 12,200 to 1300 years before present, revealing the earliest continuous presence of sheep (6500 years before present) and cattle (5900 years before present) in alpine southern Europe. …”
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