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Stone Age chewing gum holds clues to the life of a girl who lived 5700 years ago
- Pigo 7y agoI guess it was naive of me, but I was really hoping for an image of the girl. Even a reasonable guess can be pretty interesting sometimes. When you see that image of what King Tutankhamun most likely looked like, it's kind of jarring.
- nannal 7y agohttps://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191217110819-02-ancent-finds-1217-exlarge-169.jpg https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191217110819-02-ancen...
- Pigo 7y agoThere's a lot of images on the article, but most of them seem to be links to other articles. Was that slideshow specific to this article? The first image seemed to be a skull that was completely unrelated.
- sunseb 7y agoA black girl living in Denmark 5000 years ago? Is this a scientific photo or some kind of modern multicultural propaganda?
- sct202 7y agoThe gum had DNA and according to the DNA the girl had blue eyes with dark hair and skin.
- yummybear 7y agoAs far as i read “dark skin” in this context is more akin to south european skin, than actual “dark”.
- polotics 7y agoCongratulations you are now contending for dorkiest post of 2019. For additional points, guess how many generations are needed in your ancestry to get to black skin. You may use the internet and any available curiosity.
- thrower123 7y agoThese reconstructions are mostly nonsense, especially in these cases where they don't even have a complete skull to work from.
- citilife 7y agoInteresting bit of knowledge I gained from the article is that it's believed we only gained the ability to digest milk recently. Prior to that all humans were lactose intolerant.
- stevenwoo 7y agoI believe they meant all humans older than infants - adult onset lactose intolerance, otherwise it implies human lactation is a recent evolutionary trait that was reacquired or mothers made milk but their babies could not drink it.
- jvrossb 7y agoThe term lactose intolerant is commonly used as shorthand for adult onset.
- Scaevolus 7y agoOne theory for the incredibly rapid spread of lactose tolerance is that during times of famine, lactose intolerant people in Northern Europe would drink fresh milk (out of desperation) and the resultant diarrhea would weaken them even more. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/12/27/168144785/an-evolutionary-whodunit-how-did-humans-develop-lactose-tolerance https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/12/27/168144785/an...
- arunharidas 7y agoDid you just assumed her gender ?