Comparison of the mapping statistics in matched shotgun DNA libraries prepared from each ossicle type relative to those prepared from the petrous bone: (A) Comparison of human proportions, (B) comparison of mean fragment lengths, (C) comparison of deamination values (postmortem damage [PMD]), (D) comparison of clonality values. (E) Contamination was estimated using the contamMix method (Fu et al. 2013), including only matched libraries with >1× mtDNA coverage. Only statistically significant Wilcoxon signed-rank (WSR) test results are shown: (*) P_adj < 0.05, (**) P_adj < 0.01, (***) P_adj < 0.001. (UI Ossicle) Unidentified ossicle.