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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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1 The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; BioArch, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK
2 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
3 The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
4 Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
5 The National Museum of Denmark, I.C. Modewegs Vej, Brede, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
6 Museum Lolland-Falster, Frisegade 40, Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
7 The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
8 The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; University Museum, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
9 Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark