There are no published reports of residual live microbes found in archeologic relics.
There have been 2 examples of corpses exhumed from crypts during archeologic excavations in the twentieth century.
He studied reports of archeologic excavations and reviewed poems, medieval bestiaries, and paintings and concluded that these rats were scarce during the Black Death era.
Perched on steel pins, this assemblage of flotsam suggests an archeologic or forensic exhibition and invites the viewer to step forward and scrutinize each item.
An archeologic excavation of a known Native American grave site (1640 1650) in Ontario, Canada, recovered bones from an adult male.
This proposition has been hotly debated, and opponents have argued that live variola virus has never been isolated from archeologic specimens and that live virus vaccination carries its own risks.
Furthermore, on the basis of experiences in the past several decades, risks for transmission of live organisms from such relics would seem to be nonexistent; nevertheless, archeologic specimens should be handled with caution.
Two corpses with questionable lesions and that had been contained within permafrost in Siberia have been unearthed: one was unearthed naturally during flooding, and the other during an archeologic excavation.
Oral accounts and archeologic documentation of salmon consumption suggest that the landslide and Cascade Rapids combined with other large features such as Celilo Falls upstream of Bonneville might have resulted in temporary seasonal, yearly, and decadal barriers to fish migration (O'Connor 2004).
Archeologic evidence suggests that Leishmania species that cause cutaneous leishmaniasis were present in South America long before the arrival of Europeans.
