Prehistoric pendant’s dna reveals the person who held it

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* NEWS * 03 May 2023 An innovative method reveals that an ancient trinket was handled by a woman some 20,000 years ago. By * Elissa Welle * Elissa Welle Even Stone Age humans enjoyed the


finer things in life, such as animal-tooth jewellery. Capitalizing on ancient fashions, scientists have extracted DNA from a 20,000-year-old deer-tooth pendant to identify the person who


presumably either made or wore the ornament — a woman of north Eurasian ancestry 1 . ACCESS OPTIONS Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value


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https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01482-3_ REFERENCES RELATED ARTICLES SUBJECTS * Archaeology * Genomics LATEST ON: Archaeology


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