Who owned this Stone Age jewellery? New forensic tools offer an unprecedented answer

  • Written by: Michelle Langley, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
Who owned this Stone Age jewellery? New forensic tools offer an unprecedented answerMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

An international team of researchers has recovered DNA from the owner of a deer-tooth pendant that was buried inside a remote Siberian cave for tens of thousands of years.

In research published in Nature, Elena Essel of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and colleagues...

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