Abstract

Birch pitch is thought to have been used in prehistoric times as hafting material or antiseptic and tooth imprints suggest that it was chewed. Here, the authors report a 5,700 year-old piece of chewed birch pitch from Denmark from which they successfully recovered a complete ancient human genome and oral microbiome DNA.

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Title
A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch
Author
Jensen, Theis Z T 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Niemann, Jonas 1 ; Katrine Højholt Iversen 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Fotakis, Anna K 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Vågene, Åshild J 3 ; Mikkel Winther Pedersen 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ellegaard, Martin R 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Allentoft, Morten E 3 ; Lanigan, Liam T 3 ; Taurozzi, Alberto J 3 ; Nielsen, Sofie Holtsmark 3 ; Dee, Michael W 4 ; Mortensen, Martin N 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Christensen, Mads C 5 ; Sørensen, Søren A 6 ; Collins, Matthew J 7 ; Gilbert, M Thomas P 8   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sikora, Martin 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rasmussen, Simon 9   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Schroeder, Hannes 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; BioArch, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK 
 Department of Bio and Health Informatics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens, Lyngby, Denmark; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 
 The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 
 Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 
 The National Museum of Denmark, I.C. Modewegs Vej, Brede, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark 
 Museum Lolland-Falster, Frisegade 40, Nykøbing Falster, Denmark 
 The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 
 The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; University Museum, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway 
 Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Pages
1-10
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Dec 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2327910424
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.