[Paleogenetic analysis of the skeletons from the sepulchral cave of Elzarreko Karbia (Bronze Age, Basque Country)]

C R Acad Sci III. 1998 Jan;321(1):79-85. doi: 10.1016/s0764-4469(97)89629-1.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Through paleogenetic studies we have characterised the sampling of a sepulchral cave named Elzarreko Karbia, in the Basque Country (France). Four people had been buried in this cave in the Ancient Bronze Age, three men, including an adolescent, and a woman, dating from 3,700 BP. In addition to a confirmation of the anatomical sex determination through amelogenin first intron amplification, we obtained a mitochondrial second hypervariable region (HVR II) sequence for each individual, and thus, we excluded maternal relationship between some of the skeletons.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Female
  • France
  • Genetic Markers
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin Variable Region / genetics
  • Male
  • Paleontology*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Sex Determination Analysis

Substances

  • Genetic Markers
  • Immunoglobulin Variable Region