Scientists used a new, noninvasive method to successfully isolate DNA found on the prehistoric artifact.
Researchers have retrieved human DNA from a Paleolithic pendant and discovered that it belonged to a Siberian woman who lived roughly 25,000 years ago.
In 2019, archaeologists discovered the thumbnail-size pendant buried inside Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia. This cave is famous for once housing Neanderthals, the mysterious Denisovans and even modern humans, according to fossil and DNA evidence. The pendant is further evidence of the cave's human occupation. Measuring roughly 0.79 inch long, the pierced deer tooth contained a single hole, which was likely drilled so that the wearer could hang it around their neck.
"The amount of human DNA [recovered] from using this method was mind blowing for me," study author Elena Essel , a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, told Live Science in an interview."I expected to only get a bit of human DNA, but we had more than enough to tell the human and animal DNA apart."
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