Sedimentary ancient DNA as part of a multimethod paleoparasitology approach reveals temporal trends in human parasitic burden in the Roman period

• Marissa L. Ledger ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ledgerm@mcmaster.ca

  Current Address: Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, The Henry Wellcome Building, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5501-6590

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• Tyler J. Murchie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Hakai Institute, Heriot Bay, British Columbia, Canada

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• Zachery Dickson,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Melanie Kuch,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Scott D. Haddow,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Christopher J. Knüsel,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CNRS, MC, PACEA, UMR, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France

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• Gil J. Stein,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Mike Parker Pearson,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Rachel Ballantyne,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Mark Knight,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Koen Deforce,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

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• Maureen Carroll,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of New York, New York, United Kingdom

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• Candace Rice,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World and Department of Classics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Tyler Franconi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World and Department of Classics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Nataša Šarkić,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aita Bioarchaeology, Barcelona, Spain

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• Saša Redžič,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia

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• Erica Rowan,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Nicholas Cahill,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Jeroen Poblome,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit of Archaeology, KU Leuven, Belgium

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• Maria de Fátima Palma,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Campo Arqueológico de Mértola/CEAACP, Mértola, Portugal

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• Helmut Brückner,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne (Köln), Germany

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• Piers D. Mitchell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, The Henry Wellcome Building, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Hendrik Poinar

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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