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First bioarchaeological evidence of the familial practice of embalming of infant and adult relatives in Early Modern France (2024)
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Partiot, C., Bessou, M., Kacki, S., Penet, M., Sachau-Carcel, G., & Castex, D. (2024). First bioarchaeological evidence of the familial practice of embalming of infant and adult relatives in Early Modern France. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 27075. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78258-w

While medieval and modern embalming practices in Western Europe are attested to historically and bioarcheologically, especially for famous historical figures, there are few recorded occurrences of this type of corpse preparation for a large number of... Read More about First bioarchaeological evidence of the familial practice of embalming of infant and adult relatives in Early Modern France.

Well supplied in life, set aside in death: A multi‐isotope study of Justinian plague victims from Saint‐Doulchard (France, 7th–8th centuries AD ) (2024)
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Vytlačil, Z., Durand, R., Kacki, S., Holleville, M., Drtikolová Kaupová, S., Brůžek, J., Castex, D., & Velemínský, P. (2024). Well supplied in life, set aside in death: A multi‐isotope study of Justinian plague victims from Saint‐Doulchard (France, 7th–8th centuries AD ). American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 185(1), Article e25002. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.25002

Objectives: Justinian plague and its subsequent outbreaks were major events influencing Early Medieval Europe. One of the affected communities was the population of Saint‐Doulchard in France, where plague victim burials were concentrated in a cemeter... Read More about Well supplied in life, set aside in death: A multi‐isotope study of Justinian plague victims from Saint‐Doulchard (France, 7th–8th centuries AD ).

Comparaison des approches histologiques et micro-tomographiques pour l’étude de la diagenèse osseuse (2024)
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Trenchat, L., Vanderesse, N., Pubert, É., Lefrais, Y., Van de Vijver, K., Kacki, S., & Schotsmans, E. (2024). Comparaison des approches histologiques et micro-tomographiques pour l’étude de la diagenèse osseuse. Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (En ligne), 36(1), https://doi.org/10.4000/bmsap.14092

Histology is a conventional but destructive technique for investigating bone diagenesis. Micro-tomography is a non-destructive technique that can also be used to investigate diagenetic alterations. The aim of this study is to evaluate the benefits an... Read More about Comparaison des approches histologiques et micro-tomographiques pour l’étude de la diagenèse osseuse.

Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes (2019)
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Spyrou, M. A., Keller, M., Tukhbatova, R. I., Scheib, C. L., Nelson, E. A., Andrades Valtueña, A., Neumann, G. U., Walker, D., Alterauge, A., Carty, N., Cessford, C., Fetz, H., Gourvennec, M., Hartle, R., Henderson, M., von Heyking, K., Inskip, S. A., Kacki, S., Key, F. M., Knox, E. L., …Krause, J. (2019). Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 4470. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12154-0

The second plague pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis, devastated Europe and the nearby regions between the 14th and 18th centuries AD. Here we analyse human remains from ten European archaeological sites spanning this period and reconstruct 34 ancie... Read More about Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes.

New anthropological data from Cussac Cave (Gravettian, Dordogne, France): In situ and virtual analyses of Locus 3 (2019)
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Peignaux, C., Kacki, S., Guyomarc’h, P., Schotsmans, E. M., & Villotte, S. (2019). New anthropological data from Cussac Cave (Gravettian, Dordogne, France): In situ and virtual analyses of Locus 3. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 18(4), 455-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2019.02.004

Cussac Cave presents a unique combination of parietal art and several hundred parts of scattered human remains, dated to the Middle Gravettian (29–28,000 cal BP). The cave is protected as a National Heritage site. As a result, only noninvasive bioant... Read More about New anthropological data from Cussac Cave (Gravettian, Dordogne, France): In situ and virtual analyses of Locus 3.

Integrative approach using Yersinia pestis genomes to revisit the historical landscape of plague during the Medieval Period (2018)
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Namouchi, A., Guellil, M., Kersten, O., Hänsch, S., Ottoni, C., Schmid, B. V., Pacciani, E., Quaglia, L., Vermunt, M., Bauer, E. L., Derrick, M., Jensen, A. Ø., Kacki, S., Cohn, S. K., Stenseth, N. C., & Bramanti, B. (2018). Integrative approach using Yersinia pestis genomes to revisit the historical landscape of plague during the Medieval Period. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(50), E11790-E11797. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812865115

Over the last few years, genomic studies on Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of all known plague epidemics, have considerably increased in numbers, spanning a period of about 5,000 y. Nonetheless, questions concerning historical reservoirs and ro... Read More about Integrative approach using Yersinia pestis genomes to revisit the historical landscape of plague during the Medieval Period.

Rich table but short life: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) and its possible consequences (2018)
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Kacki, S., Velemínský, P., Lynnerup, N., Kaupová, S., Lacoste Jeanson, A., Povýšil, C., Horák, M., Kučera, J., Rasmussen, K., Podliska, J., Dragoun, Z., Smolík, J., Vellev, J., & Brůžek, J. (2018). Rich table but short life: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) and its possible consequences. PLoS ONE, 13(4), Article e0195920. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195920

The exhumation of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was performed in 2010 to verify speculative views on the cause of his death. Previous analyses of skeletal and hair remains recovered from his grave refuted the presumption that he died from... Read More about Rich table but short life: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) and its possible consequences.

Les sarcophages de plâtre d’Allonnes (Eure-et-Loir) : un enrichissement de la chrono-typologie funéraire régionale (2017)
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Kacki, S., & Capron, F. (2017). Les sarcophages de plâtre d’Allonnes (Eure-et-Loir) : un enrichissement de la chrono-typologie funéraire régionale. Revue archéologique du Centre de la France (En ligne), 56,

Une opération d’archéologie préventive menée dans la commune d’Allonnes (Eure-et-Loir) a révélé une partie d’une vaste nécropole mérovingienne, ainsi que plusieurs petits groupes de tombes situées à sa périphérie. L’intervention a permis de caractéri... Read More about Les sarcophages de plâtre d’Allonnes (Eure-et-Loir) : un enrichissement de la chrono-typologie funéraire régionale.

Probable hepatic capillariosis and hydatidosis in an adolescent from the late Roman period buried in Amiens (France) (2014)
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Mowlavi, G., Kacki, S., Dupouy-Camet, J., Mobedi, I., Makki, M., Harandi, M., & Naddaf, S. (2014). Probable hepatic capillariosis and hydatidosis in an adolescent from the late Roman period buried in Amiens (France). Parasite, 21, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2014010

Two calcified objects recovered from a 3rd to 4th-century grave of an adolescent in Amiens (Northern France) were identified as probable hydatid cysts. By using thin-section petrographic techniques, probable Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepati... Read More about Probable hepatic capillariosis and hydatidosis in an adolescent from the late Roman period buried in Amiens (France).