Nearly 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals life of ancient girl.

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Tom Björklund
▼ More than 5700 years ago, a girl spat out a wad of chewing gum at what is now an archaeological site in Denmark. Today, researchers report inNature Communicationsthat they have sequenced a full genomefrom that gum, the first time they have extracted so much information from anything other than ancient bones or teeth.  Although no human remains have been found at the site of Syltholm, archaeologists found a wad of gum from birch pitch. The DNA in the gum was so well preserved that researchers were able to offer a glimpse of the girl who had chewed it and a snapshot of her life.
The child (artist’s depiction above) had black hair, blue eyes, and  (▪ ▪ ▪)

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chanakyakripa

Really interesting reading. Such gums can give genomic sequencing of the person, idea about food habits and also probable movement type of human population of that time

bookgod2017

an amazing discovery . should help more with genetic sequencing

abhidebb

A mind-boggling discovery...!!!

Pr1m3

Interesting!!

darogaa

That really is progressive.