"Chewing gum" is found to carry the oldest nucleic acid in human beings in the Scandinavian countries

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For more than 10,000 years, humans who settled in what is now Sweden have chewed sticky pieces, a tarlike substance extracted from the birch bark.

The old gum, recovered from the Mesolithic settlement, still contains the traces of DNA – the oldest human nucleus from Scandinavia – according to Life Science.

These finds are especially valuable because of the presence of human bones from the Middle Stone Age in the Scandinavian countries.

The archaeologists said they found eight plastered birch fillings at a site called Huseby" Klev"On the west coast of Sweden, during the Stone Age.

Archaeologists said gum samples bore the hallmarks of long chewing teeth, adding that the human saliva preserved in chewing gum provided genetic information.

Pearson said that the DNA produced by this old gum has enormous potential not only to trace the origin and movement of peoples for a long time, but also to provide insight into their social relationships and the diseases they have suffered as well as the foods they ate.

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