Sheng, Pengfei https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7340-2882
Allen, Edward
Ma, Tian
Dao, Yiyuan
Zhang, Jianlin
Liu, Daiyun
Han, Sheng
Meng, Hailiang
Wen, Shaoqing https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1223-4720
Article History
Received: 21 October 2022
Accepted: 27 March 2023
First Online: 5 May 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: We collected 23 ancient human bones and 3 animal bones from archeological sites in the Shaanxi Province of China (Table ). Approval for their use was curated by co-authors and obtained with permission from the respective provincial archeology institutes in the Shaanxi Province of China (where the samples are collected) that managed these bone samples. The approval and oversight of this study were also provided by the institutional review board at the Ethics Committee for Biological Research at Fudan University.
: Written informed consent for participation was not required for this study in accordance with the national legislation and the institutional requirements.