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Mummification in Korea and China: Mawangdui, Song, Ming and Joseon Dynasty Mummies
Shin, Dong Hoon,Bianucci, Raffaella,Fujita, Hisashi,Hong, Jong Ha Hindawi 2018 BioMed research international Vol.2018 No.-
<P>Over the decades, mummy studies have expanded to reconstruct a multifaceted knowledge about the ancient populations' living conditions, pathologies, and possible cause of death in different spatiotemporal contexts. Mainly due to linguistic barriers, however, the international knowledge of East Asian mummies has remained sketchy until recently. We thus analyse and summarize the outcomes of the studies so far performed in Korea and China in order to provide mummy experts with little-known data on East Asian mummies. In this report, similarities and differences in the mummification processes and funerary rituals in Korea and China are highlighted. Although the historical periods, the region of excavation, and the structures of the graves differ, the cultural aspects, the mechanisms of mummification, and biological evidence appear to be essentially similar to each other. Independently from the way they are called locally, the Korean and Chinese mummies belong to the same group with a shared cultural background.</P>
Assessing the Parasitic Burden in a Late Antique Florentine Emergency Burial Site
Kevin Roche,Elsa Pacciani,Raffaella Bianucci,Matthieu Le Bailly 대한기생충학열대의학회 2019 The Korean Journal of Parasitology Vol.57 No.6
Excavation (2008-2014) carried out under the Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy) led to the discovery of 75 individuals, mostly buried in multiple graves. Based on Roman minted coins, the graves were preliminarily dated between the second half of the 4th and the beginning of the 5th centuries CE. Taphonomy showed that this was an emergency burial site associated with a catastrophic event, possibly an epidemic of unknown etiology with high mortality rates. In this perspective, paleoparasitological investigations were performed on 18 individuals exhumed from 9 multiple graves to assess the burden of gastrointestinal parasitism. Five out of eighteen individuals (27.7%) tested positive for ascarid-type remains; these are considered as “decorticated” Ascaris eggs, which have lost their outer mammillated coat. Roundworms (genus Ascaris) commonly infest human populations under dire sanitary conditions. Archaeological and historical evidence indicates that Florentia suffered a period of economic crisis between the end of 4th and the beginning of the 5th centuries CE, and that the aqueduct was severely damaged at the beginning of the 4th century CE, possibly during the siege of the Goths (406 CE). It is more than plausible that the epidemic, possibly coupled with the disruption of the aqueduct, deeply affected the living conditions of these individuals. A 27.7% frequency suggests that ascariasis was widespread in this population. This investigation exemplifies how paleoparasitological information can be retrieved from the analysis of sediments sampled in cemeteries, thus allowing a better assessment of the varying frequency of parasitic infections among ancient populations.
Jones, Jana,Mirzaei, Mehdi,Ravishankar, Prathiba,Xavier, Dylan,Lim, Do Seon,Shin, Dong Hoon,Bianucci, Raffaella,Haynes, Paul A. Royal Society 2016 Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical Vol.374 No.2079
<P>This article is part of the themed issue 'Quantitative mass spectrometry'.</P>