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Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane – analysis of birch tar describes a female hunter-gatherer with dark skin and blue eyes

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Tags: denmark, archaeology, neolithic, hunter gatherer
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/17/neolithic-dna-ancient-chewing-gum-denmark

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Title
Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane
Authors
Ian Sample
Published
Dec 17 2019
Word count
720 words

2 comments

  1. jgb
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    That is extremely clever. Thanks for sharing.

    That is extremely clever. Thanks for sharing.

    3 votes
  2. Diet_Coke
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    It is so extremely cool that they were able to get a complete ancient human genome from 6000 year old chewing gum.

    It is so extremely cool that they were able to get a complete ancient human genome from 6000 year old chewing gum.

    2 votes