Human blood, organs, and a surprising virus detected in ancient

The researchers identified proteins specific to human blood and organs, which was a surprise, and showed that the vessels once held organ remains. Just as shocking was the presence of two unique protein fragments, known as peptides, that help CCHFV bind to a host cell just prior to infection, the team will report in the February 2017 issue of The Journal of Archaeological Science.

The find highlights how ancient viruses can more easily be identified by their proteins than their more commonly studied nucleic acids, such as DNA or RNA. Although researchers have used DNA to trace the prehistory of pathogens such as smallpox, proteins are more stable than nucleic acids and potentially could be preserved for millions of years.

"Recovering nucleic acids from ancient viruses is extremely difficult and plagued by contamination,” notes Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the City University of New York in New York City, who was not involved in the study. "Virus proteins are more readily accessible and less prone to degradation."

"The discovery of proteins for CCHFV in the pottery sherds is very exciting,” Corthals says. "It would be nice to see confirmation by another independent laboratory. But as it is, the results seem pretty convincing."

The question remains as to whether the presence of CCHFV in Iron Age Germany represents evidence of an ancient epidemic, shows that the pathogen was endemic to the region, or traces the path of an individual who traveled from an infected area, Corthals says.

The findings could make archaeologists pay more attention to featureless pottery sherds, or those found moved from where they had been placed or discarded in antiquity, Wiktorowicz says. "What have archaeologists been missing regarding social practices and the use of pottery vessels in the past?" he says. “I can’t imagine all of the exciting new findings other researchers will make."

>>90657
Good story, thanks for posting non-/pol/bait, OP

They put him in pots because they probably thought that if they burned or buried him, the illness might spread.

>>90727
Makes sense

>>90734
What do you mean anon?

>>90734
Not the we wuz kangs.
Pelo amor de deus!
Go learn history nigger, that is if you can learn something of course...

>>90735
They hadn't even developed written language...their culture was african nigger tier. Advanced culture came to them from the middle east

>>90832
I see very true, thank you for elaborating.

>>90832
>being this ignorant

>>90854
nigger detected

>>90876
Germania bashing is just as retarded as black bashing.

>>90832
>written language is the only measure of cultural progress
you really need to stop skipping history class to shitpost on /pol/, kid

>>90996
germans and northern europeans were jungle bunnies till roughly a 1000 yrs ago when they started getting civilized by darker people from middle east and southern europe