Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have extracted a Stone Age woman’s DNA from 5,700-year-old “chewing gum.” The “gum” is made from birch pitch, according to researchers, and was once chewed ...

Thanks to a 5,700-year-old piece of "chewing gum," the entire genome of a neolithic human has been obtained and analyzed. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen said it's the first time an ...

Thousands of years ago, a young Neolithic woman in what is now Denmark chewed on a piece of birch pitch. DNA analysis of this prehistoric "chewing gum" has now revealed, in remarkable detail, what she ...

Toward the end of the Stone Age, in a small fishing village in southern Denmark, a dark-skinned woman with brown hair and piercing blue eyes chewed on a sticky piece of hardened birch tar. The village ...

The coroner didn't rule out gum as a potential contributor to her death. The sugar alcohols in gum can lead to electrolyte depletion, but other risks are more common. Visit Insider's homepage for more ...

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