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I minori migranti tra vulnerabilità ed estraneità: quale mandato sociale per la comunità accogliente?
2016
I grandi flussi migratori che caratterizzano il nostro tempo e il nostro spazio-mondo che muta così rapidamente ci conduce all’interrogativo su come si possa vivere insieme, come si possa coabitare pacificamente, pur nel rispetto delle pluralità culturali, della profonda diversificazione di nazionalità, etnicità, linguaggi, equilibri tra genere, età, capitale umano e statuti legali. Il mondo globalizzato è fortemente segnato dalla superdiversità, quale esito di spazi urbani sempre più complessi e più definiti dalle mobilità umane in continuo divenire.
New Insights Into Mitochondrial DNA Reconstruction and Variant Detection in Ancient Samples
2021
Ancient DNA (aDNA) studies are frequently focused on the analysis of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is much more abundant than the nuclear genome, hence can be better retrieved from ancient remains. However, postmortem DNA damage and contamination make the data analysis difficult because of DNA fragmentation and nucleotide alterations. In this regard, the assessment of the heteroplasmic fraction in ancient mtDNA has always been considered an unachievable goal due to the complexity in distinguishing true endogenous variants from artifacts. We implemented and applied a computational pipeline for mtDNA analysis to a dataset of 30 ancient human samples from an Iron Age necropolis in Poliz…
More data on ancient human mitogenome variability in Italy: new mitochondrial genome sequences from three Upper Palaeolithic burials.
2021
BACKGROUND: Recently, the study of mitochondrial variability in ancient humans has allowed the definition of population dynamics that characterised Europe in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Despite the abundance of sites and skeletal remains few data are available for Italy. - AIM: We reconstructed the mitochondrial genomes of three Upper Palaeolithic individuals for some of the most important Italian archaeological contexts: Paglicci (South-Eastern Italy), San Teodoro (South-Western Italy) and Arene Candide (North-Western Italy) caves. - SUBJECTS AND METHODS We explored the phylogenetic relationships of the three mitogenomes in the context of Western Eurasian ancient and modern va…
Analisi paleogenetica dei cacciatori-raccoglitori della Sicilia: nuovi dati sul primo popolamento dell’isola
2022
The first undisputed colonization of the island has been linked to Late or Final Epigravettian groups after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), as evidenced by the fossil record. Two significant sites to investigate this issue are the Grotta di San Teodoro (Acquedolci, Messina) and the Grotta d’Oriente (Favignana island). The Grotta di San Teodoro has yielded the oldest and largest human skeletal sample yet found in Sicily. Inside the cave, during field excavations carried out in the 1937-1947 years, seven human adults have been discovered (ST1-ST7). In the Grotta d’Oriente four prehistoric burials assigned to Late Upper Paleolithic (Oriente A and C) and Mesolithic (Oriente B and X) were uneart…
The population structure of Arbereshe fron genetic and cultural evidence: a paternal perspective
2013
A Mediterranean melting pot. Excavating uni-parental genetic strata in Sicily and Southern Italy
2013
Ribosomal DNA 18S-28S sequence Probe Mapping on Primate Genome: evolutionary insights
2017
Telomeric sequences distribution in nine Neotropical primates (Platyrrhinae) by (TTAGGG)n probe mapping: interstitial location and their possible rol…
2015
Platyrrhini are characterized by a high intra and intergeneric genome variability. This genome variability due to intra and inter-chromosomal rearrangements occurred during evolution could be possibly link to the involvement of telomeric and heterochromatin sequences. Telomeres, the terminal regions of chromosomes, constituted of particular repeated DNA sequences (TTAGGG)n and proteins, are called true telomeres and have their role in determining the replication and the stability of chromosomes. The DNA component of telomeres can be also found at intra-chromosomal sites such as close the centromeres and between centromere and telomeres, and are known as Interstitial Telomeric Sequences (ITS…
NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA FROM THE ARCHAIC CEMETERY AT MOTYA
2014
The archaic necropolis at Motya has been long recognized as a site of great interest for the study of Phoenician burial customs in the West. Since its discovery by Joseph Whitaker more than a century ago, over 300 burials have been brought to light - mainly dating to the late 8th-7th century BC. Burials are characterized by jars used as urns and box-shaped stone cists containing the ashes and burnt bones of the dead. These are indeed secondary cremations, a very common funerary ritual of the Iron Age in the Phoenician homeland and in the colonies overseas. Despite the relevant bearing of this cemetery on historical and cultural grounds, anthropological analysis unfortunately has been mostly…