This article from PNAS gives an interesting application of ancient DNA sequencing, but looking at the biodiversity of animals bones at historic settlement in New Zealand. The authors can begin to understand the animals that were inhabiting New Zealand at the time as well, which animals were being hunted and if transportation of animals bones meat and products was occurring. The use of Ancient DNA here is an ideal way to get more human behavioural data, whilst simultaneously validating and improving the information we get from the fossil record.
Link to paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/30/7771.short
Jack Richardson
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