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Microbiological approach for identification of wool clothes in ancient burialsстатья
- Авторы: Kashirskaya N., Kleshchenko A., Mimokhod R., Borisov A.
- Журнал: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
- Том: 31
- Год издания: 2020
- Издательство: Elsevier Ltd
- Местоположение издательства: Exeter, England
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102296
- Аннотация: We propose a microbiological approach for the identification of wool clothes in ancient burials. The method is based on counting the number of wool-decomposing fungi colonies in soil that grow on nutrient media with keratin. The high number of colonies of keratinolytic fungi indicates the former presence of keratin-containing substrates in the burials. The method was tested on soil samples collected from under skeletons from burials of the Bronze Age and the Archaic time period. In each burial, the soils under the skull, spine, pelvis, knees and feet of the buried were examined. In all burials, the number of colony-forming units of wool-decomposing fungi was higher than that in the control samples from the upper layer of the burial soils. A significant increase in wool-decomposing fungi colonies was found in the soils under the feet of skeletons in the burials of the Bronze Age. In burials of Archaic Greece times, the smallest numbers of wool-decomposing fungi were found in the soil under the feet, and the highest numbers were found in the soil under the spine and knees. The differences in the distribution of the number of keratinophilic fungi colonies in burials indicate differences in the clothing of dead persons. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
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