The DNA in the gum was so well preserved that researchers were able to get a glimpse of the girl who had chewed it and a snapshot of her life.
The DNA in the gum was so well preserved that researchers were able to get a glimpse of the girl who had chewed it and a snapshot of her life, according to. The child had black hair, blue eyes and dark skin. Her most recent meal included duck and hazelnuts.
The study authors also suggest that she was more closely related to western hunter-gatherers from continental Europe than hunter-gatherers from central Scandinavia.that"the preservation of the gum is quite extraordinary. We didn’t expect to get the whole genome.” The gum, a black-brown substance known as birch"pitch," was made by heating birch bark and was used as an adhesive since the Middle Pleistocene Era . Small lumps of this material have been found at archaeological sites and have often included tooth imprints, which suggests that they were chewed.
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