Stone Age Chewing Gum Identifies DNA of Ancient Female

The stone age chewing gum also recorded that the recent foods Lola had eaten were ducks and hazelnuts. She was likely blue-eyed with dark skin and hair as the common features of European hunter-gatherers.

Scientists were also able to identify the DNA of plants and animals that Lola had recently consumed. They also identified the DNA of the countless microbes that lived inside her mouth or her oral microbiome.