Ancient DNA in ice, such as the Ötzi the Iceman (Handt "et al." 1994), or through rapid desiccation, such as high-altitude mummies from the Andes (c.f. Pääbo 1986; Montiel "et al." 2001), as well as various sources of artificially preserved tissue (such as the chemically treated mummies of ancient Egypt). However, mummified remains are a limited resource. The majority of human aDNA studies have focused on extracting DNA from two sources that are much more common in the archaeological record – bone and teeth. Several other sources have also yielded DNA, including paleofaeces (Poinar "et al." 2001) and hair (Baker "et al."
The Eagle Wounded by an Arrow by a verse commenting that its sorrow at being struck down is doubled by the knowledge that it has furnished the means for its own destruction. But when the situation appeared in La Fontaine's Fables, it was under the more generalised title of "The bird wounded by an arrow" (II.6) and a wider lesson is drawn from the incident. The dying bird blames humans for using its own parts against itself and claims that they have learnt this cruelty from the way they treat each other. A contemporary French emblem book took a different view of how the bird had