The Facility for Curation of Archaeological Animal DNA

Ancient animal DNA is a valuable heritage asset contained in faunal remains recovered from archaeological sites across the country. To both protect this precious resource and enable its sustainable exploitation by the scientific community at home and abroad, the University of Haifa has built a facility for the extraction of ancient DNA from archaeological bone remains. Currently in final running and quality control tests, the facility will enable the extraction of aDNA samples to scientists while retaining a fraction of the archaeological specimens for future research.

The facility is run by the Laboratory of Archaeozoology, the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, in collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Authority.

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