This is an artistic reconstruction of Lola, a 5,700-year-old adult woman whose appearance was reconstructed from deoxyribonucleic acid analysis of a chewed slice of birch pitch.
(Image: © Tom Björklund)
Thousands of years ago, a immature Neolithic adult woman inwards what is directly Kingdom of Denmark chewed on a slice of birch pitch. deoxyribonucleic acid analysis of this prehistoric "chewing gum" has directly revealed, inwards remarkable detail, what she looked like.
The squad nicknamed the immature Neolithic adult woman "Lola" afterwards Lolland, the isle inwards Kingdom of Denmark on which the 5,700-year-old chewing mucilage was discovered. The Stone Age archaeological site, Syltholm, on the isle of Lolland, pristinely preserved the mucilage inwards mud for the thousands of years afterwards Lola discarded it.
It was as well as thus well-preserved that a grouping of scientists at the University of Copenhagen were able to extract a consummate ancient human genome — all of the immature girl's genetic cloth — from it. They were besides able to extract deoxyribonucleic acid from ancient pathogens as well as oral microbes that she carried inwards her mouth.
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