Archaeogenetics and landscape dynamics in sicily during the Holocene: A review

V Romano, G Catalano, G Bazan, F Calì, L Sineo - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Mediterranean islands and their population history are of considerable importance to
the interpretation of the population history of Europe as a whole. In this context, Sicily …

Multianalytical investigation reveals psychotropic substances in a ptolemaic Egyptian vase

D Tanasi, BF van Oppen de Ruiter, F Florian… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
This study presents a comprehensive multimodal analytical study of an Egyptian ritual Bes-
vase, of the 2nd century BCE employing cutting-edge proteomics, metabolomics, genetics …

Enhancement of weak signals by applying a suppression method to high-intense methyl and methylene signals of lipids in NMR spectroscopy

U Singh, AH Emwas, M Jaremko - RSC advances, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Lipids play crucial roles in human biology, serving as energy stores, cell membranes,
hormone production, and signaling molecules. Accordingly, their study under lipidomics has …

Phylogenetic relationship among wild and cultivated grapevine in Sicily: A hotspot in the middle of the Mediterranean Basin

R De Michele, F La Bella, AS Gristina… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Grapevine (Vitis vinifera ssp. sativa) is a perennial crop especially important for wine and
fruit production. The species is highly polymorphic with thousands of different varieties …

A New Marine Biomaterial: The Shell of Mangrove Horseshoe Crabs, Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda (Latreille, 1802) Emphasizing Its Physico-Chemical …

Y Wardiatno, B Riyanto, NA Iskandar… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The paper aims to elucidate the physico-chemical characteristics of the shell of mangrove
horseshoe crabs (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) and determine the compilation matrix for …

A Multi-Analytical Approach on Silver-Copper Coins of the Roman Empire to Elucidate the Economy of the 3rd Century AD

G Marussi, M Crosera, E Prenesti, D Cristofori… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, 160 silver-copper alloy denarii and antoniniani from the 3rd century AD were
studied to obtain their overall chemical composition. The approach used for their …

1 H NMR, 1 H–1 H 2D TOCSY and GC-MS analyses for the identification of olive oil in Early Bronze Age pottery from Castelluccio (Noto, Italy)

D Tanasi, E Greco, RE Noor, S Feola, V Kumar… - Analytical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of analytical research in recent decades, at the edge between analytical
chemistry and archaeology, provides new methods for the study of organic residues that are …

[HTML][HTML] The Antitumor Potential of Sicilian Grape Pomace Extract: A Balance between ROS-Mediated Autophagy and Apoptosis

F Affranchi, D Di Liberto, M Lauricella, A D'Anneo… - Biomolecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
From the perspective of circular economy, it is extremely useful to recycle waste products for
human health applications. Among the health-beneficial properties of bioactive phyto …

Microanalytical Characterization of an Innovative Modern Mural Painting Technique by SEM-EDS, NMR and Micro-ATR-FTIR among Others

P Aguilar-Rodríguez, S Zetina, A Mejía-González… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
During the 20th century, modern painters experimented with different mediums and painting
techniques, one of them was Rafael Coronel in his mural painting, Paisaje Abstracto …

The archaeology of wine production in Roman and pre-Roman Italy

E Dodd - American Journal of Archaeology, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
The world of vinicultural archaeology has expanded exponentially over the past two
decades, adding novel discoveries, methodologies, theories, and new archaeological …