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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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