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Warpy

(113,130 posts)
Wed May 3, 2023, 01:46 PM May 2023

Ancient Woman's DNA Recovered From 20,000-Year-Old Necklace Pendant



A pendant made from a deer's tooth has turned out to be a veritable locket of genetic information left by an ancient woman who lived in Siberia some 20,000 years

Evolutionary anthropologists at the Max Planck Institute in Germany found a way to safely probe ancient artifacts for environmental DNA without destroying them, and applied it to a piece of jewelery found in the famous Denisova Cave in Russia in 2019.

Other than the fragments of her chromosomes, no trace of the woman herself has been uncovered, though the genes absorbed by the pendant with her sweat and skin cells lead experts to think she belonged to an ancient group of North Eurasian individuals from the paleolithic times.

https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-womans-dna-recovered-from-20000-year-old-necklace-pendant
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Ancient Woman's DNA Recovered From 20,000-Year-Old Necklace Pendant (Original Post) Warpy May 2023 OP
"ancient group of North Eurasian individuals from the paleolithic times" Jerry2144 May 2023 #1
Not really - we were all socialists back then. Martin68 May 2023 #3
Id say "Hey Marge..." The Unmitigated Gall May 2023 #2

Jerry2144

(2,622 posts)
1. "ancient group of North Eurasian individuals from the paleolithic times"
Wed May 3, 2023, 01:51 PM
May 2023

Translation:

Her political viewpoints align nicely with the Republiklan Party.

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