'The Farm Beneath the Sand' - An archaeological case study on ancient 'dirt' DNA

Martin B. Hebsgaard; M. Thomas P. Gilbert; Jette Arneborg; Patricia Heyn; Morten E. Allentoft; Michael Bunce; Kasper Munch; Charles Schweger; Eske Willerslev

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00098537

'The Farm Beneath the Sand' - An archaeological case study on ancient 'dirt' DNA

Martin B. Hebsgaard, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Jette Arneborg, Patricia Heyn, Morten E. Allentoft, Michael Bunce, Kasper Munch, Charles Schweger, Eske Willerslev^*

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Abstract

It is probable that 'The Farm Beneath the Sand' will come to stand for a revolution in archaeological investigation. The authors show that a core of soil from an open field can provide a narrative of grazing animals, human occupation and their departure, just using DNA and AMS dating. In this case the conventional archaeological remains were nearby, and the sequence obtained by the old methods of digging and faunal analysis correlated well with the story from the core of ancient 'dirt' DNA. T.

Original language	English
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	83
Issue	320
Pages (from-to)	430-444
Number of pages	15
ISSN	0003-598X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00098537
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2009
Externally published	Yes

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AMS dating
Ancient DNA
Greenland
Norse

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