Minimally-invasive sampling of pars petrosa (os temporale) for ancient DNA extraction v2

• DOI: 10.17504/protocols.io.bqd8ms9w
• Publication Date: 2020-12-04T09:24:40Z
• Authors: Eleftheria Orfanou; Marie Himmel; Franziska Aron; Wolfgang Haak

This protocol describes how to obtain bone powder from the pars petrosa of disarticulated ossis temporalis, specifically from the dense parts around the cochlea, in a minimally-invasive way by drilling from the outside. The pars petrosa has been shown to consistently yield high amounts of aDNA (Pinhasi et al. 2015 PLoS One, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129102).