Ancient “chewing gum” contains a 5,700-year-old genome | Ars Technica
▻https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/ancient-chewing-gum-contains-a-5700-year-old-genome
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The long-dead woman had blue eyes and dark skin, and she was lactose intolerant.
#Danemark #ADN #waouh via @maliciarogue
Donc l’intolérance au lactose n’est pas seulement une mode destinée à montrer sa singularité ?
Intéressant... Je n’avais aucune idée que ça pourrait varier si vite.
"This combination of physical traits has been previously noted in other European hunter-gatherers, suggesting that this phenotype was widespread in Mesolithic Europe and that the adaptive spread of light skin pigmentation in European populations only occurred later in prehistory,” wrote Schroeder and his colleagues.
This single discarded piece of ancient chewing gum tells us that the ancient woman, who Schroeder and his colleagues have nicknamed Lola, was probably lactose intolerant, ate duck and hazelnuts, and may recently have had pneumonia. She also had blue eyes, dark brown hair, and dark skin
Article original :
A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch
Theis Z. T. Jensen, Jonas Niemann, Katrine Højholt Iversen, Anna K. Fotakis, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Åshild J. Vågene, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Martin R. Ellegaard, Morten E. Allentoft, Liam T. Lanigan, Alberto J. Taurozzi, Sofie Holtsmark Nielsen, Michael W. Dee, Martin N. Mortensen, Mads C. Christensen, Søren A. Sørensen, Matthew J. Collins, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Martin Sikora, Simon Rasmussen & Hannes Schroeder
Nature Communications 10:5520 (2019)
►https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13549-9
A rajouter à la compilation #archéologie :
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#histoire #préhistoire #anthropologie #civilisation #évolution #nourriture #genome #microbiome
