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DNA Of An Ancient Woman Found In A 20,000-Year-Old Necklace Pendant
DNA Of An Ancient Woman Found In A 20,000-Year-Old Necklace Pendant
- An old woman who lived in Siberia approximately 20,000 years ago left a locket of genetic information in the shape of a pendant crafted from a deer tooth.
- The amazing discovery raises the possibility that there are other untapped archaic artefacts comprised of tooth and bone that contain old genetic material.
An old woman who lived in Siberia approximately 20,000 years ago left a locket of genetic information in the shape of a pendant crafted from a deer tooth. No evidence of the woman herself has been found, other from the shards of her chromosomes, but the genes her perspiration and skin cells transferred to the pendant suggest she belonged to a prehistoric North Eurasian population from the Palaeolithic era.
In order to safely test ancient artefacts for environmental DNA without damaging them, evolutionary anthropologists at the Max Planck Institute in Germany developed a method that they applied to a piece of jewellery discovered in the renowned Denisova Cave in Russia in 2019.
