Search results for "ancient"

Fingerprinting ofCaprinae ancient genomic DNA: A preliminary note for studying the history of domestication in sicily

1996

Oligonucleotide primers representing promoter and protein motifs in rats and mice were assayed for PCR amplification of ancient DNA from two sheep and one goat. We show preliminary evidence that this type of primers can be used for genomic fingerprinting of ancient DNA at interspecific level and can help in solving some paleoecological promlems.

PrP Gene Polymorphism in Medieval Remains of Sicilian Sheep

2015

Encephalopathy in sheep was at first described in Ireland in 1732 and was called scrapie. Ancient DNA in archaeogenetics represents an effective method to evaluate the ancestral pedigree of living animals and track evolutionary changes occurred between the past and the present day. Since several point mutations are today widely described in modern scrapie, no data about both sequence and frequency are still available for the prion protein (PrP) gene in ancient breeds. In order to evaluate whether the haplotypes distribution in ancient sheep differed from those of the modern population we evaluated polymorphism at four well know codons of the Prp Open Reading Frame. In the present work, we c…

Influence of grain quality, semolinas and baker’s yeast on bread made from old landraces and modern genotypes of Sicilian durum wheat

2021

Abstract Several studies showed that products made with ancient wheat genotypes have beneficial health properties compared to those obtained with modern wheat varieties, even though the mechanisms responsible for the positive effects are not clear. Ancient durum wheat genotypes are being currently used for the production of pasta, bread and other typical bakery products but the consumption is strictly local. In this work 15 genotypes of Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, including 10 ancient and 5 modern, were characterized for their technological traits through the determination of different parameters: protein content, dry gluten, gluten index, yellow index, ash, P/L, W and G. In addition, t…

The Palaeopopulationgenetics of Humans, Cattle and Dairying in Neolithic Europe

2011

The Spanish Creation of the Philippines: The Birth of a Nation

2017

This chapter examines the human background of the country from its early settlement to the end of the Spanish colonial era. Different theories have been presented to explain the initial settlement of the country. The Austronesian societies developed a social structure and patterns of commerce that were not completely erased by the Spanish colonization following the discovery travels of Magellan and others, and the conquest of the islands by Legazpi in the sixteenth century. Spanish control meant the imposition of the Catholic Church as a powerful element of organization in the countryside, and the development of cities following colonial Spanish guidelines. Manila was central to a large mar…

Chestnut woods on madonie mountains (Sicily, Italy): Reasons for abandonment and possibilities of recovery

1999

The status of the chestnut woods on the Madonie Mountains (Sicily, PA) was investigated. During the last years, the surface of chestnut woods on the Madonie Mountains has been decreasing as well as their utilisation has changed because of chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) attacks. Therefore, three plots located in the Madonie mountains were studied to investigate the effects of chestnut blight attack. The first results here exposed stress the strong relations between the entity of chestnut blight attack and the density and age of the coppice.

Longane - La civiltà perduta (Longane - The Lost Civilization)

2012

Some silver coins and a caduceus of the V century B.C. (today exposed in the British Museum, London) certifying the existence of the ancient settlement of Longane, which was connected by Diodorus Siculus and Polybius, at the river Longanos of the plane of Milazzo, the site of the battle between the Syracusans of Gerone II and the Mamertines of Kio (269 B.C.).The research carried out have led to the discovery of a vast area indigenous partially hellenised, having the core placed in the shelter of the ancient river Longano and a territorial distribution (formed by villages, fortified areas and necropoli) which occupied part of the current territories of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Castroreale,…

Kinship between cities and peoples

2012

As Herodotus explains (8.144.2), the whole Greek-speaking people was envisaged like one big “family” composed of kinsmen. Nevertheless, within this wide “family” there were various degrees of blood relationship due to the ancestral subdivision of the Hellenic people into the early gene of Aiolians, Ionians, and Dorians. Keywords: ancient Greece; assimilation and exclusion; cultural history; Greek history; nations and peoples; political history

A New Find of Danburite in the Luc Yen Mining Area, Vietnam

2017

The Breeding Birds of Malta

2012

Sultana J., Borg J.J., Gauci C. & Falzon V. (con la coll. di Cachia D., Coleiro C., Galea R. & Gauci M.), 2011. The Breeding Birds of Malta. BirdLife Malta, 380 pp., € 33. Acquistabile tramite www.birdlifemalta.org o www.bdlbooks.com.